2-1 win in terrible Tuesday weather. Brito debuted with 2 hits.

Romp past the Royals; Martinez homered; doubled; singled twice. Hoskins 3 doubles. Manzardo off the bench with a single-- small step in the right direction.
Cantillo one earned run in 5 2/3. 9 strke outs He's looking really good.

Team ERA and Team HR totals both near the top of the league. We're number 1 in strikeouts for the pitching staff.

And I forgot the rookies:
DeLauter 2 run double started the scoring
Brito 2 singles average stays at an even 500. Also committed his first major league error.

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Guardians pound Royals with 16 hits — including an Angel Martinez grand slam — on the way to a 10-2 win

Updated: Apr. 08, 2026, 6:50 p.m.|Published: Apr. 08, 2026, 4:04 p.m.

By Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Guardians hit seven doubles and a grand slam among their 16 hits Wednesday afternoon. They were all well-struck, with at least three of the doubles bouncing off the 19-foot wall in left field and Angel Martinez’s grand slam clearing the right field wall in the eighth inning.

But the biggest hit of the Guardians’ 10-2 win over Kansas City barely traveled 60 feet.

It came off the bat of José Ramírez and slammed into the left thumb of Kansas City starter Cole Ragans with two out in the first inning. Time was called and Royals manager Matt Quatraro, plate umpire Dan Iassogna and a trainer gathered to check on Ragans.

He tested his thumb with several warmup pitches. After two of the first three sailed to the backstop, Ragans seemed to rediscover a rough version of the strike zone and Quatraro left him in the game.

It was not a good decision.

Ragans walked David Fry on four straight pitches. Chase DeLauter ended Ragans’ day with a double off the left field wall to score Ramírez and Fry for a 2-0 lead.

Manager Stephen Vogt was impressed by DeLauter’s ability to stay focused when it was obvious that Ragans was struggling to throw strikes.

“It takes a lot of confidence after somebody gets hit and then sprays six balls to be ready to hit,” said Vogt. “We’ve seen that from Chase since last postseason. He’s not afraid. That was a huge, huge hit for us.”

Luinder Avila relieved and allowed the first of Rhys Hoskins’ three consecutive doubles for a 3-0 lead as the Guardians never looked back.

Ragans (0-3, 5.91) threw only 18 pitches but took the loss. He is 1-3 lifetime against Cleveland.

“Josey with the knockout punch, followed by Chase just set us off on the right foot,” said Hoskins. “You could tell the energy was there early.”

The Guardians made it 4-0 on Ramírez’s two-out double in the second. After Brayan Rocchio walked with one out, Steven Kwan hit Rocchio with a ground ball between first and second. Rocchio was declared out, while Kwan was credited with a single.

Martinez, with his first of a career-high four hits in one game, singled to move Kwan to second. Ramírez delivered Kwan with a hustle double to center.

Joey Cantillo (1-0, 2.45) carried the 4-0 lead into the fourth before Maikel Garcia beat out an infield hit along the third baseline and Bobby Witt Jr. doubled him home to make it 4-1.

Cantillo retired the next three Royals to keep the inning under control.

Starling Marte made it a 4-2 game with a double to center with one out in the fifth. Cantillo came back to strike out the next two batters to end the inning.

The Guardians gave Cantillo some elbow room with a run in the fifth to make it 5-2. Hoskins doubled off the left field wall and scored on rookie Juan Brito’s double to right. Brito, who made his big-league debut on Tuesday, recorded his first hit and RBI in his first two games in the majors.

Cantillo came out for the sixth and retired the first two batters before manager Stephen Vogt called for the bullpen. Cantillo allowed two runs, one earned, in 5 2/3 innings. He struck out nine and walked two.

In six appearances against the Royals, the left-hander is 2-1 with a 1.61 ERA.

“They really made Joey work there in the middle innings, but to give us five and two thirds on a day where we’re pretty thin in the bullpen was big,” said Vogt.

The Guardians slammed the door with five runs in the eighth inning, four of them coming on the second slam of Martinez’s career. The Royals ended the inning with outfielder Tyler Tolbert pitching. He ended the inning by getting DeLauter to hit into a double play.

Brito, Austin Hedges and Brayan Rocchio started the eighth with singles. Brito scored on Rocchio’s single to center, and Kwan walked to load the bases. Martinez hit an 0-2 slider from Steven Cruz.

Martinez’s first slam came on July 8, 2025 against Houston.

“The biggest thing about today is that I was consistent with the things I’ve been working on,” said Martinez.

The Guardians’ 16 hits were their most in one game since they had 16 hits on Sept. 8, 2025 against the Royals.

Matt Festa earned a save because he entered the game in the eighth inning with the tying run at the plate.

Hoskins is the first Guardians first baseman to have three doubles in a game since Ben Broussard did it against the Royals on Sept. 24, 2005.

The Guardians played their first 12 games with just one error. They made two on Wednesday, one by Kwan in center field and one by Brito at second base.

Next

The Guardians are off Thursday before opening a six-game trip to Atlanta and St. Louis. RHP Slade Cecconi (0-1, 5.23) will face Atlanta on Friday night. The Braves are starting RHP Bryce Elder (1-1, 0.00) at 7:15 p.m. EDT. Guardians.TV, WTAM and the Guardians Radio network will carry the game.

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