CLEVELAND (AP) — Rookie Bo Naylor scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning on a throwing error, Gavin Williams pitched 5 2/3 innings in his major league debut and the Guardians beat the Oakland Athletics 7-6.
Naylor singled for his first hit in the majors after being called up from the Clippers — snapping an 0-for-19 drought — and came home on Steven Kwan’s one-out double.
Myles Straw was the first to score on Kwan’s hit, which turned into a two-run play when right fielder Ramón Laureano wildly flung the ball back to the infield.
Williams allowed four runs on four hits — all in the third — while striking out four.
Eli Morgan (3-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win, and Emmanuel Clase finished for his MLB-leading 22nd save.