Steven Kwan helps Guardians to 6-5 win over White Sox in 10 innings

CHICAGO — Steven Kwan knocked in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and made a sliding catch to help prevent a run from scoring in the bottom of the inning as the Cleveland Guardians beat the Chicago White Sox 6-5 Sunday. Kwan's fly off Brandon Eisert (2-2) scored automatic runner Angel Martínez. Kwan covered a lot of ground in left field and made a catch just inside the foul line on a fly ball by Mike Tauchman leading off the 10th. Kyle Manzardo hit his 15th homer — a three-run shot off Aaron Civale, the player he was traded for in June — to cap a four-run sixth and give Cleveland a 4-3 lead. Brayan Rocchio doubled with one out and scored on a force out by José Ramírez for the first run. "It's a cool moment to get to look back on," Manzardo said. "I was fortunate that I got my pitch. … He just introduced himself. It was pretty cool, just given the fact that we were traded for each other." "That was great," manager Stephen Vogt said. "Civale was keeping us off balance. We were letting a lot of his cutters go. It's a good pitch, and that was really the first one that he left flat up over the middle. Manzo was ready to go and didn't miss it. "That was one of my favorite games of the year, because I thought we played awful the first five innings. I thought our offense was dead. Civale was doing whatever he wanted. For us to explode like that late off of him, that was really fun to see." Austin Slater hit his fourth home run, a leadoff shot off Joey Cantillo in the fourth, to put the White Sox ahead 1-0. Michael A. Taylor's sac fly and Slater's RBI single extended the lead to 3-0 in the fifth. Andrew Benintendi hit his 11th home run, a solo shot off Cantillo, to tie it at 4 in the sixth. Kwan drew a walk in the eighth off Grant Taylor, took third on a single by Nolan Jones and scored on Ramírez's sac fly for a 5-4 lead. Edgar Quero doubled in the eighth and pinch-runner Will Robertson scored on Luis Robert Jr.'s two-out double to tie it 5-all. Cantillo allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings with six strikeouts. Closer Emmanuel Clase (5-2) didn't allow a hit in the final two innings as Cleveland won three of four in the series. Cleveland went 6-1 on the road trip, following a 10-game losing skid. "It's awesome. We played great baseball on this trip," Vogt said. "It was really fun to see our guys turn that stretch around. Obviously, the 10 in a row hurt, but for us to just turn around and keep it rolling the whole time, it was a lot of fun. We had multiple guys come up clutch, come up huge on this road trip. So it was a great trip for our team." Key moment Civale allowed only a bunt single by Rocchio through the first five innings before two hits and two walks led to the four-run sixth. Key stat The all-time series between the AL Central rivals is even at 1,130-1,130, with 17 ties. Up next After the All-Star break, the Guardians host the Athletics and Chicago is at Pittsburgh, both on Friday.