Cleveland Guardians at San Francisco Giants: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLE | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 1 |
| SF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 1 |
The Story
The San Francisco Giants defeated the Cleveland Guardians 6-5 in ten innings on September 13, 2023, at Oracle Park, completing a comeback that the DiamondIQ model's estimate tracked from a 58 percent pre-game home win probability all the way to 100 percent at the final out. Cleveland appeared to seize early control by scoring four runs in the first inning, but San Francisco chipped away and ultimately took the lead for good when the game reached extra innings.
The decisive swing came in the bottom of the eighth, when J.D. Davis connected on a home run off Eli Morgan that added 42.3 percent to the Giants' win probability, the single largest play of the game and the moment that effectively turned the contest. Brandon Crawford then delivered the winning run in the tenth with a walk off Xzavion Curry, a play that added another 22.5 percent to San Francisco's win probability and brought the marathon to a close. On the Cleveland side, Josh Naylor's groundout to end the top of the ninth off Camilo Doval cost the Guardians 13.9 percent in win probability, extinguishing what had been their final meaningful threat.
Among individual performers, Davis led all batters with a WPA of plus-37.1 percent and a RE24 of plus-1.9, while Crawford posted plus-22.5 percent WPA and plus-1.4 RE24 to round out the Giants' most impactful offensive contributors. LaMonte Wade Jr. added plus-14.8 percent WPA as well. On the pitching side, Logan Allen was the standout, contributing plus-34.4 percent WPA while holding Cleveland in check through the middle innings, with Camilo Doval adding plus-9.9 percent WPA in a clean ninth. Both teams finished with 12 hits and one error apiece, making Davis's eighth-inning blast the clean separator in an otherwise tightly contested game.