CLEVELAND (AP) — Trey Sweeney and Riley Greene homered during a six-run 10th inning on Sunday as the Detroit Tigers beat Cleveland 7-2, extending the Guardians' losing streak to 10 games.
Javier Báez had two hits and Tarik Skubal struck out 10 as the AL-best Tigers swept the three-game series.
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Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Gavin Williams, left, flips a rosin bag as Jose Ramirez, right, looks on during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Cleveland Guardians' Daniel Schneemann, left, scores on an RBI single by Steven Kwan as Detroit Tigers' Dillon Dingler, right, looks for a throw during the inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Detroit Tigers' Gleyber Torres, left, scores on a double by Matt Vierling as Cleveland Guardians' Bo Naylor is late with the tag during the 10th inning inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Cade Smith, foreground, looks to home plate as Detroit Tigers' Trey Sweeney, back left, rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Detroit Tigers' Parker Meadows, left, and Javier Baez (28) congratulate Trey Sweeney (27) after his three-run home run off Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Cade Smith during the 10th inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Cleveland was one strike away from ending its skid when closer Emmanuel Clase threw a wild pitch, allowing pinch-runner Zach McKinstry to score the tying run with two outs in the ninth.
The Guardians' double-digit streak is the 11th in team history and the first since Cleveland dropped 11 in a row in 2012. The franchise record is 12 in 1931.
Cleveland’s Steven Kwan had three hits, including an RBI double in the eighth.
Báez singled leading off the 10th with automatic runner Parker Meadows aboard and Sweeney followed with a three-run drive down the left-field line off Cade Smith (2-3) for a 4-1 lead.
Skubal — the reigning AL Cy Young winner and possible starter in next week's All-Star Game — allowed three hits in seven innings. It was his sixth double-digit strikeout game of the season and 13th of his career.
Chase Lee (4-0) pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings.
Cleveland's Gavin Williams allowed one hit in six innings and struck out eight.
The Tigers padded their lead in the 10th on Matt Vierling's RBI double and Greene's two-run homer, his 22nd.
Greene is the 15th Detroit player to hit at least 22 homers before the All-Star break. The last was J.D. Martinez, who had 25 in 2015.
Tigers: Have not named a starter for Monday's series opener against visiting Tampa Bay.
Guardians: Open a six-game trip at Houston on Monday. RHP Tanner Bibee (4-9, 4.20 ERA) goes up against Astros RHP Hunter Brown (9-3, 1.82).
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Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Gavin Williams, left, flips a rosin bag as Jose Ramirez, right, looks on during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Cleveland Guardians' Daniel Schneemann, left, scores on an RBI single by Steven Kwan as Detroit Tigers' Dillon Dingler, right, looks for a throw during the inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Detroit Tigers' Gleyber Torres, left, scores on a double by Matt Vierling as Cleveland Guardians' Bo Naylor is late with the tag during the 10th inning inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Cade Smith, foreground, looks to home plate as Detroit Tigers' Trey Sweeney, back left, rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
Detroit Tigers' Parker Meadows, left, and Javier Baez (28) congratulate Trey Sweeney (27) after his three-run home run off Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Cade Smith during the 10th inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states after at least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in the capital, Caracas.
The Pentagon and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Smoke could be seen rising from the hangar of a military base in Caracas. Another military installation in the capital was without power.
People in various neighborhoods rushed to the streets. Some could be seen in the distance from various areas of Caracas.
“The whole ground shook. This is horrible. We heard explosions and planes,” said Carmen Hidalgo, a 21-year-old office worker, her voice trembling. She was walking briskly with two relatives, returning from a birthday party. “We felt like the air was hitting us.”
Venezuela’s government, in the statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets.
“People to the streets!” the statement said. “The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”
The statement added that President Nicolás Maduro had “ordered all national defense plans to be implemented” and declared “a state of external disturbance.”
This comes as the U.S. military has been targeting, in recent days, alleged drug-smuggling boats. On Friday, Venezuela said it was open to negotiating an agreement with the U.S. to combat drug trafficking.
Maduro also said in a pretaped interview aired Thursday that the U.S. wants to force a government change in Venezuela and gain access to its vast oil reserves through the monthslong pressure campaign that began with a massive military deployment to the Caribbean Sea in August.
Maduro has been charged with narco-terrorism in the U.S. The CIA was behind a drone strike last week at a docking area believed to have been used by Venezuelan drug cartels in what was the first known direct operation on Venezuelan soil since the U.S. began strikes on boats in September.
U.S. President Donald Trump for months had threatened that he could soon order strikes on targets on Venezuelan land. The U.S. has also seized sanctioned oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, and Trump ordered a blockade of others in a move that seemed designed to put a tighter chokehold on the South American country’s economy.
The U.S. military has been attacking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean since early September. As of Friday, the number of known boat strikes is 35 and the number of people killed is at least 115, according to numbers announced by the Trump administration.
They followed a major buildup of American forces in the waters off South America, including the arrival in November of the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier, which added thousands more troops to what was already the largest military presence in the region in generations.
Trump has justified the boat strikes as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the U.S. and asserted that the U.S. is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.
Meanwhile, Iranian state television reported on the explosions in Caracas on Saturday, showing images of the Venezuelan capital. Iran has been close to Venezuela for years, in part due to their shared enmity of the U.S.
Pedestrians walk past the Miraflores presidential palace after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Residents evacuate a building near the Miraflores presidential palace after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Smoke raises at La Carlota airport after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Pedestrians run after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Smoke raises at La Carlota airport after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Smoke raises at La Carlota airport after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Pedestrians run after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
