CLEVELAND (Interstat) — Nick Martinez allowed one earned run over 5 1/3 innings, Jonathan Aranda drove in two runs and Yandy Díaz hit a two-run homer in the ninth as Tampa Bay beat Cleveland 7-3 on Saturday at Progressive Field to tie the ALCS at 2-2. The Rays, the visiting team in Game 4 of the playoff series, finished with 11 hits. The Guardians had eight hits and grounded into two double plays. Tampa Bay improved to 103-66. Cleveland fell to 90-81. Attendance was 33,355, and the game took 3 hours, 10 minutes.

Martinez earned the win and improved to 16-6. He gave up two hits, one earned run and two walks while striking out three. In his previous appearance, Martinez allowed two earned runs over 3 2/3 innings against the Yankees. Daniel Espino took the loss for Cleveland and fell to 0-1. Foster Griffin pitched 3 2/3 innings for the Guardians, allowing four hits and one earned run with five strikeouts. Cam Booser retired the only batter he faced for Tampa Bay. Freddy Peralta recorded two outs with one walk. Bryan Baker pitched a scoreless inning with one hit and one strikeout. Shawn Armstrong pitched a scoreless inning for Cleveland with one strikeout. Joey Cantillo retired two batters, allowing one hit and striking out one.

Cleveland opened the scoring in the bottom of the first. Steven Kwan singled, and Chase DeLauter singled sharply to right field to score Kwan. DeLauter was thrown out at second on the relay from Victor Mesa Jr. to Taylor Walls. Tampa Bay answered in the top of the third. Díaz doubled to right, and Aranda singled to center to score Díaz and tie the game. The Rays had a chance in the first when Chandler Simpson reached on a fielding error by Travis Bazzana, but Junior Caminero grounded into a force out to end the threat. Cleveland’s Nathaniel Lowe grounded out in the second, and Bazzana struck out before Patrick Bailey grounded out.

The Rays moved ahead in the sixth. Aranda walked, and Chandler Simpson walked behind him. Caminero then doubled sharply into the left-field corner, scoring Aranda and sending Simpson to third. Simpson was thrown out at home on Ben Williamson’s fielder’s choice, but Caminero’s double gave Tampa Bay a 2-1 lead. The hit was a key swing from Caminero, who had earlier driven a deep fly ball to center field that Petey Halpin caught at the wall. Caminero stood on second and beat his chest after the go-ahead hit. Cleveland put two runners on in the bottom of the sixth when Halpin walked and José Ramírez walked, but Chase DeLauter flew out to center to end the inning.

Tampa Bay broke the game open in the seventh. Richie Palacios singled, and Taylor Walls singled to right. Aranda then lined a single to right field that scored Palacios and Walls. Aranda advanced to third on a fielding error by DeLauter. Chandler Simpson followed with a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Aranda and making it 5-1. Cleveland answered in the bottom of the seventh. Travis Bazzana hit a line-drive home run to right. Patrick Bailey singled, Angel Martínez singled, and Brayan Rocchio singled to left to score Bailey and cut the Rays’ lead to 5-3. Steven Kwan grounded out to end the inning. Tampa Bay’s Cedric Mullins struck out in the eighth, Victor Mesa Jr. popped out and Nick Fortes grounded out. Cleveland’s Jo Adell singled in the bottom of the eighth, but David Fry struck out.

Tampa Bay added insurance in the ninth. Palacios singled to right, and Walls moved him to second with a sacrifice bunt. Díaz then homered to right field, scoring Palacios and giving the Rays a 7-3 lead. Aranda singled to center, but Chandler Simpson grounded into a force out, and Caminero struck out to end the top half. Cleveland threatened briefly in the bottom of the ninth when Bazzana singled. Bailey then grounded into a double play, with Aranda fielding and throwing to Walls for the second out and Aranda completing the play at first. Angel Martínez struck out swinging to end the game.

Díaz finished 2-for-5 with a home run and two RBIs. Aranda was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Bazzana was 2-for-3 with a home run and one RBI for Cleveland. Tampa Bay’s Martinez led the Rays’ pitching effort, while Griffin kept Cleveland close into the middle innings. Cleveland turned two double plays in the game. The series is tied 2-2 and is now a best-of-three.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Tampa Bay 9, Cleveland 6. Interstat’s ELO system gave Tampa Bay a 51.4 percent probability to win. Tampa Bay was installed as the pregame favorite with a spread of -1.5. The combined score of 10 went under the over/under line of 6.5.