Call confirmed. Bad times for the Guardians, with Clase now allowing a single to Jazz Chisholm. The best reliever in baseball hasn't gotten an out in three batters.

Wow, now the Guardians are challenging that Stanton didn't touch first base on the homer.

Emmanuel Clase allowed two home runs all regular season. He just allowed back-to-back homers to Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. It's his third homer allowed in the postseason.

The Yankees are suddenly six outs away from taking a 3-0 lead in the ALCS.

The Guardians can say they did the smart thing. They can say they brought their best guy in. They cannot say it worked out.

After going up 0-2, Emmanuel Clase allows a game-tying home run to Aaron Judge, a frozen rope to right field. It's a new ballgame in Cleveland, with a sweep suddenly on the horizon again

Gaddis walks Juan Soto, and Guardians manager Stephen Vogt is indeed bringing in Clase to face Judge with two outs. This could be the game right here.

Emmanuel Clase is already warming up in the bottom of the eighth. There's a good chance he comes in if Gaddis reaches Aaron Judge in the lineup.

Kahnle keeps the seventh inning scoreless and now it goes to the Yankees offense, with six outs remaining.

Tim Mayza allows a leadoff walk to David Fry, and that will end his day. Tommy Kahnle comes on with one on and none out.

Herrin gets a flyout from Verdugo to end the frame. It looks like it will be Hunter Gaddis in the eighth.

Tim Herrin was a strike away from ending the inning after a Jon Berti double play wiped out a leadoff walk, but Anthony Volpe extends the inning with a double. Alex Verdugo will now try to bring him in.

Kwan grounds out to end the inning. The Yankees still need two runs over the next three innings, with Tim Herrin (Dominant Guardians Reliever No. 2) coming in for Cade Smith.

Rocchio pops out in foul territory for the second out of the inning. Now up: leadoff hitter Steven Kwan.

Tim Mayza walks Austin Hedges (career OBP: .243), and now the Guardians have two on with one out. Mayza gets a mound visit but stays in to face Brayan Rocchio.

Lane Thomas stole third base, then Andrés Giménez snuck a groundball past a Yankees infield that was playing in. New York's task just got harder.

Wait, now Hamilton is leaving the game due to an injury after covering first base on the challenged play. He threw a warm-up pitch, and it went badly. If that's a multi-game injury, it would be a significant blow for the Yankees.

Tim Mayza now pitching for New York.

Call overturned. It will still be a runner on second with one out for the Guardians against Ian Hamilton, with the bottom of the order coming up.

That's a rough play for the Yankees, with first baseman Jon Berti bobbling a double-play ball, then not getting the ball to first in time to get Daniel Schneemann.

The Yankees are challenging the safe call, though, and it looks like they'll win.

Cade Smith mows down the three most dangerous hitters in the Yankees lineup. 10 pitches, 10 strikes. That's Dominant Guardians Reliever No. 1.

Naylor flies out to left and ends the top of the sixth. The Yankees take over with the task of scoring one run over the course of four innings.

Making that difficult: The Guardians are the only team in MLB history with four relievers who each posted a sub-2.00 ERA in at least 60 innings. And they're all available today.

Clarke Schmidt allows a two-out double to José Ramírez, and that will do it for the right-hander. Aaron Boone brings in Tim Hill to face Josh Naylor.

It was Ramírez's ninth career postseason double, tying him with Sandy Alomar for the most in franchise history.

Boyd got handshakes and hugs in the dugout, so that should do it for him. His final line: five innings, two hits, one run, three walks, four strikeouts.

Pretty good for a guy who underwent Tommy John surgery after the 2022 season and joined Cleveland in June.

That's 10 batters put down in a row for Matthew Boyd, who is at 75 pitches through five innings. The Guardians could go to their bullpen now or let the hot hand ride.

Important: Boyd is on his third time through the order, with Juan Soto, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton due up next inning.

Rocchio grounds out on the second pitch. Still 2-1 Guardians.

Austin Hedges, playing in place of Bo Naylor at catcher, contributes a two-out double in the fourth. Guardians again threatening with Brayan Rocchio batting.

Matthew Boyd works another 1-2-3 inning for the Guardians, and he's now at 67 pitches through four innings. With the Guardians' dominant bullpen lined up, they probably need just another inning or two from him.

Anthony Volpe flashes his Gold Glove and saves a run with a great play to end the inning. It's still a Guardians lead in a must-win game.

Jose Ramirez finished a homer short of a 40-40 season this year, and he goes for a stolen base at second with two outs. He was initially called safe, a ruling that survives a challenge from the Yankees.

The Guardians take the lead on Kyle Manzardo's first career postseason homer. That was a big one.

And now a 1-2-3 inning for Boyd after a rocky first two innings. Pretty big against Soto, Judge and Stanton.

Schmidt follows the run with a six-pitch 1-2-3 inning, which featured a mildly controversial play on which Andrés Giménez ran into Jon Berti at first base as he was thrown out.

Torress flies out to left. The Yankees got on the board, but that could have been much worse for Cleveland.

And then Trevino gets picked off and caught in a rundown! This is suddenly less scary for the Guardians, who don't have to face Juan Soto if they can get Torres here.

Trevino comes through with an opposite-field single after the Guardians play infield in. That scores one runner, leaving runners on the corners for Torres.

Oh boy, Matthew Boyd now in trouble after walking Anthony Volpe and allowing a base hit to Alex Verdugo. It looked like the Guardians might have thrown out Verdugo as he tried to stretch a double, but second base umpire Jansen Visconti ruled that Guardians shortstop Brayan Rocchio blocked him at second.

Now it's two runners in scoring position and one out with Jose Trevino and Gleyber Torres due up.

Schmidt escapes with a strikeout of José Ramírez and groundouts by Josh Naylor and Lane Thomas. Both teams got two baserunners in the first inning but no runs.

Steven Kwan gets his own leadoff walk against Clarke Schmidt, then a bloop single by Kyle Manzardo. Guardians have two on with none out to open the bottom of the first.

Boyd works around walks of Torres and Giancarlo Stanton to post a scoreless first inning, finishing with a strikeout of Jazz Chisholm. That's one pass through the potent top of the Yankees lineup.

Aaron Judge entered today hitting 3-for-18 with six strikeouts this postseason, and he starts with a three-pitch strikeout. All swinging strikes. Pretty good from Boyd.

Lane Thomas rescues the Guardians from a two-on, no-out situation to open the game with a great sliding catch while fighting the sun in center field. Torres reached base with a walk.

Matthew Boyd fires a first-pitch changeup to Gleyber Torres, and we're off.

We're about to get started in Cleveland as the Guardians try to dig their way out of a 2-0 hole.

Clarke Schmidt and Matthew Boyd are your starting pitchers.