Guardians beat White Sox 9-5 to force decisive Game 5

The Cleveland Guardians defeated the Chicago White Sox 9-5 in Game 4 on Thursday, forcing a winner-take-all game in the American League Division Series. The result sends the teams back to Cleveland for Game 5 on Saturday, with a place in the American League Championship Series at stake. Cleveland, which began the best-of-five series with two losses at home, has won two straight games in Chicago. The Guardians scored their runs in the fifth and sixth innings after trailing 2-0. José Ramírez hit a home run and drove in three runs, according to the game account. Patrick Bailey began Cleveland’s fifth-inning rally with a pinch-hit home run. Ramírez followed with a two-run shot that put the Guardians ahead, but Chicago answered with two runs in the bottom half to make it 4-3. The decisive surge came in the sixth. Travis Bazzana’s RBI double tied the score, and Bailey drove in a run with a single. Ramírez, Chase DeLauter and Jo Adell also contributed run-scoring hits during the six-run inning, which gave Cleveland a 9-4 lead. Chicago reliever Grant Taylor allowed four runs and four hits without retiring a batter in the sixth, according to the game account.