Cleveland Beats Rays 1-0 In First Ever Postseason Game Scoreless Through 13+ Innings

Cleveland's Oscar Gonzalez led off the bottom of the fifteenth inning with a home run off Corey Kluber, clinching the ALWC series for the Guardians and ending the longest 0-0 postseason game in major league history. 

No postseason game had been scoreless through more than 12 innings before Saturday. The Guardians will play the Yankees in the ALDS (best-of-5), beginning on Tuesday. The Rays scored one run and was 0-for-7 with RATS over 24 innings in the two games.

Rays      - 000 000 000 000 000 - 0  6  0
Guardians - 000 000 000 000 001 - 1  5  0

This was also the first game to be scoreless through 14 innings since the Red Sox beat the Rays 1-0 in 16 innings on July 17, 2011. . . . From that game's JoS post: 

[The Rays] issued 12 walks, including seven in a span of 12 batters in the 9th-11th innings. Boston left the bases loaded in the ninth and eleventh, and two on in the tenth. . . .

This was the longest game the Red Sox had been held scoreless since a 17-inning scoreless tie against the St. Louis Browns almost exactly 95 years ago (July 14, 1916)!

It was also the longest game by time (5:44) in Rays history. . . . This was also the longest scoreless game in Rays history.

There were 39 strikeouts in today's Guardians/Rays game, a new record for a postseason game.

There were five other postseason games that were scoreless through 10 or 12 innings:

1969 ALCS Game 2

Twins     - 000 000 000 00 - 0  3  1
Orioles   - 000 000 000 01 - 1  8  0

1980 NLCS Game 3

Phillies  - 000 000 000 00 - 0  7  1
Astros    - 000 000 000 01 - 1  6  1

1981 NLDS Game 2 

Dodgers   - 000 000 000 00 - 0  9  1
Astros    - 000 000 000 01 - 1  9  0

1997 ALCS Game 6

Cleveland - 000 000 000 01 - 1  3  0
Orioles   - 000 000 000 00 - 0 10  0

2020 NLWCS Game 1

Reds      - 000 000 000 000 0 - 0 11  1
Atlanta   - 000 000 000 000 1 - 1  6  0