Angel Martinez hit a solo homer and Patrick Bailey drove in his first run since being acquired in a trade, giving the Cleveland Guardians a 3-2 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.
Vaughn Grissom homered in the eighth for the Angels, who are 4-29 in Cleveland since 2015 — the most lopsided series in the majors at one team’s ballpark during the period — and have not won consecutive games in the city in 13 years.
Hunter Gaddis (1-1) allowed one hit over 1 1/3 scoreless innings. Cade Smith picked up his 12th save in 14 opportunities by retiring all four batters he faced.
Martinez went deep in the third inning against Angels rookie Walbert Urena (1-4) to break the ice, while Bailey’s groundout in the fifth brought home Daniel Schneemann and extended Cleveland’s lead to 2-0.
Los Angeles pulled within 2-1 in the sixth when pinch-hitter Oswald Peraza tripled off Tim Herrin and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jo Adell, but the Guardians answered in the seventh with a Brayan Rocchio sacrifice fly that plated Petey Halpin.
Grissom greeted rookie Franco Aleman with a 406-foot blast to center to cut Cleveland’s advantage to 3-2. When Aleman walked Josh Lowe, Smith was summoned from
