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CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Manager Stephen Vogt and the Cleveland Guardians have been searching for a breakout game on offense for most of the season.<\/p>\n

Read more The Red Sox have won 14 straight and need 1 more to match an 80-year-old franchise record<\/a><\/p>\n

They finally got it Monday night.<\/p>\n

The Guardians hit seven home runs in a 13-4 victory over Minnesota Twins, one short of the franchise record and matching the record for a home game.<\/p>\n

It was an unlikely power surge for the Guardians, who came into the game tied with Tampa Bay for the third-fewest homers in the majors with 94. <\/p>\n

\u201cA really fun night,\u201d Vogt said. \u201cThe coolest feeling in the world is hitting a home run in the big leagues. So to see our guys keep doing it, obviously we\u2019re getting good pitches to hit and we\u2019re not missing them. I think that\u2019s more telling than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five of the longballs were by players who came into the game batting under .200. Petey Halpin and Rhys Hoskins each went deep twice and Patrick Bailey\u2019s shot in the seventh made it the sixth game in the franchise\u2019s 125 seasons with at least seven homers. Cleveland hit eight home runs at Milwaukee on April 25, 1997, and at Seattle on July 16, 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking a lot about how both good and bad things are so contagious in this game and we feed off that as a team,\u201d said Hoskins, who came into the game batting .177.<\/p>\n

It was the first time two Cleveland players homered at least twice in a game since Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez and Carlos Santana did it in 2019 against the Yankees.<\/p>\n

Brayan Rocchio and Travis Bazzana also went deep for Cleveland, which also homered seven times at home on April 30, 2013 against the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the fourth time this season a major league team has hit at least seven homers. The Chicago Cubs had eight in their 23-3 win over the San Diego Padres on July 1.<\/p>\n

Twins starter Joe Ryan became the 11th starting pitcher in major league history to give up six homers in a game. It was also a franchise record for homers allowed. Ryan, who pitched in his second All-Star Game last week, left too many of his 78 pitches over the middle of the plate as the Guardians took advantage of an off night by the right-hander.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a tough one, right, because I\u2019m the one that\u2019s wearing it. It\u2019s definitely all on me,\u201d said Ryan, who allowed eight runs and a career-high 10 hits in four innings, raising his ERA from 2.85 to 3.38. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely frustrating and not the way you want to start a series against this team. They beat me to the spot more times than I got them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vogt was happiest for Halpin, who hit his first two major league homers with drives to right-center in the second and fourth innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels incredible. I think that my role and what I try to do is get on base for the guys that do hit home runs. And today I was able to connect on a couple of them,\u201d Halpin said.<\/p>\n

Halpin\u2019s homer in the fourth extended Cleveland\u2019s lead to 8-2. According to Sportradar, it was the first time since 1974 \u2014 when innings data started to be tracked \u2014 that Cleveland had six homers in the first four innings. It had five on July 22, 1994, against the Chicago White Sox and on Aug. 15, 2019, at the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

It was the 24th time that has happened in the majors during that span. The last was by the New York Yankees on Aug. 27, 2025, against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n

Rocchio hit a two-run homer to right in the first. Two pitches later, Hoskins followed with a drive down the line in left to make it 3-0. It was the second time this season that Rocchio and Hoskins have gone back to back. They also did it against the Twins on July 8. <\/p>\n

Bailey led off the seventh with a solo shot to center off Woo-Suk Go. The Guardians also had three other balls that went off the wall for doubles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was just a great commitment on our part to really not be sold out, but be really confident about what we\u2019re trying to do with the fastball,\u201d Hoskins said. \u201cI also think it gives you some conviction on which ones are balls. And I think we just did a really good job of that today. Ready to hit on the ones that weren\u2019t up. And I think a lot of those are the ones that we did damage on, those are the pitches that you can\u2019t miss against a guy like that and we just didn\u2019t do that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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