CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays have set a record for the longest scoreless postseason game in major league history.
They were tied at 0-0 into the 15th inning.
The previous high was set two years ago, when Atlanta beat Cincinnati 1-0 in the NL Wild Card Series opener on Freddie Freeman’s walk-off single in the 13th inning.
Rookie Oscar Gonzalez broke the deadlock with a leadoff home run off Corey Kluber in the 15th, giving the Guardians a 1-0 win and a two-game Wild Card Series sweep.
Gonzalez, who walks to the plate to the “SpongeBob SquarePants” theme song, drove a 1-0 cutter, the 432nd pitch in the nearly five-hour game, over the 19-foot wall in left-center to touch off a celebration.
AL Central champion Cleveland opens the best-of-five Division Series on Tuesday at the AL East champ New York Yankees.
Tampa got just four hits through 14 innings and used eight pitchers.
Cleveland had four hits and also used eight pitchers.