Guardians beat twins for the 9th direct victory and 1 1/2 games behind the division before

Minneapolis (AP) -José Ramírez made Homer Homer for his third career and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Minnesota twin 6-0 on Saturday in the first game of a day-night Doublehead on Saturday. Top Naylor made Homer twice, George Valera and Daniel Schekeann also went deeply, and Cleveland won his ninth direct and the 14th of 15 to close within 1 1/2 matches of Al Central, Detroit, beat by Atlanta 6-5. Ramírez hit a solo line-driving homer to the right field in the first innings. Together with his 40 stolen bases, his thirtieth home game got him 30 and 30 for a franchise best third time in his career. Naylor opened the second innings with a home game of Joe Ryan and Valera hit the first of his career twice later. Schekeann went deep in fifth place. Ryan (13-9) gave up four earnings runs on six strokes and knocked five in five innings. The four home runs were a season high. In his past six, the All-Star 1-4, which allows 22 earned runs in 27 innings. Slade Cecconi (7-6) had his third strong start for Cleveland, which allowed only two strokes in seven innings. He strikes eight. After a second innings doubles, the right hand retired 18 of the final 19 overs he faced, which made one run. Naylor’s eighth innings home game was the second multi-home game of his career. The other was July 25, 2023. Cleveland is 33-14 (.702) against all-central enemies this season and ties the Dodgers for the best intra-division in the majors. Game 2 of Saturday’s DoubleHeader started Cleveland with LHP Logan Allen (7-11, 4.36) and Minnesota with RHP Bailey Ober (5-8, 5.12). ___