Guardians postpone division title celebration at Progressive Field

The Cleveland Guardians desired to increase their AL Central banner Tuesday evening at Progressive Area, but the temperature did not cooperate. 

The 86-67 Guardians had been pressured to postpone their flag-elevating ceremony right before a game in opposition to the Tampa Bay Rays, for each the G3 Box News.

When the game isn’t rained out in Cleveland, the Guardians are utilized to the soaked temperature this season. They’ve experienced 10 rainouts that have forced them to perform eight doubleheaders this time, a league higher. Six of them have occur at home. 

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The Cleveland Guardians rejoice just after they defeated the Texas Rangers 10-4 and clinched the American League Central Division at Globe Everyday living Industry Sept. 25, 2022, in Arlington, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Illustrations or photos)

Rain is in the forecast for the remaining online games of this sequence, which is why the ceremony has been pushed to Saturday versus the Kansas City Royals. 

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The Guardians, who have the youngest workforce in MLB, willed their way to an unpredicted division title – their fourth in the last seven a long time. It’s also the first time the franchise has accomplished so as the Guardians. 

The tarp sits on the field just after rain stopped participate in in the course of the 3rd inning of a sport concerning the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Subject Sept. 27, 2022, in Cleveland. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)

It was Cleveland’s 10-4 gain above the Texas Rangers Sunday that clinched the division immediately after punching their ticket to the postseason a few online games before versus the Chicago White Sox, a person of the teams in the Central that was anticipated to make a run for the division title. 

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Entering Tuesday, the White Sox had been one particular recreation underneath .500 at 76-77, even though the Minnesota Twins are even worse at 74-79. The Royals (63-90) and Detroit Tigers (60-92) under no circumstances experienced a prospect. 

Mainly because they gained the division, the Guardians will be the a few seed even with the AL wild card teams likely to be in advance of them in wins and losses. 

The Cleveland Guardians celebrate soon after they defeated the Texas Rangers 10-4 and clinched the American League Central Division at Globe Life Discipline Sept. 25, 2022, in Arlington, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

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If the year ended Tuesday, the Seattle Mariners would experience Cleveland in the wild-card round as the sixth seed, when the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays would experience off in an AL East battle.