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Cleveland Guardians' Josh Naylor Makes Incredible Baseball History This Weekend

With three straight go-ahead home runs this weekend, Guardians player Josh Naylor made some impressive baseball history.

Brady Farkas

Cleveland Guardians' Josh Naylor Makes Incredible Baseball History This Weekend
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The Cleveland Guardians won the weekend series against the Los Angeles Angels thanks in large part to a historic weekend from slugger Josh Naylor.

Naylor accomplished something this weekend that no player in baseball history has done since the expansion era (1961). 

Per ESPN Stats & Info:

Josh Naylor Friday night: go-ahead HR in 8th inning. 

Josh Naylor Saturday night: go-ahead HR in 8th. 

Josh Naylor Sunday: go-ahead HR in 8th. 

Naylor is the first player in the Expansion Era (since 1961) to hit a go-ahead HR in the 8th inning or later in 3 straight games

The Guardians won the game today by a score of 4-3. It was 1-1 in the bottom of the eighth when Naylor hit his three-run homer to make it 4-1. The Angels scored two runs in top of the ninth to reach the final margin.

Hopefully this weekend represents a turning point for Naylor, who's been off to a very slow start this year. He's hitting just .214 with six homers and 26 RBI through 126 at-bats.

Despite his struggles this year, Naylor has had a productive run in Cleveland. He hit 20 homers a season ago and drove in 79 as the Guardians got to the ALDS and won the American League Central.

With the win, the Guardians are now 19-21 on the season. They are 3.0 games back of the Twins in the lackluster American League Central.

The loss drops the Angels to 21-20. They've lost six of their last 10 and are now in fourth place in the American League West.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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