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🗞️ Story file #604

Rays beat Guardians in Game 5 to take 3-2 ALCS lead

Oct 18, 2 AM ET to Oct 19, 7 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 18, 2 AM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
  2. Oct 18, 11 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
  3. Oct 19, 2 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
  4. Oct 19, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 18, 6 AM12 PM6 PMOct 196 AM12 PM6 PM49leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 18, 2 AM to Oct 19, 7 PM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 17, 12 PMOct 1812 PMOct 1912 PMThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 15, 7:00 PM ET: Halpin’s go-ahead homer flips Game 3 as Guardians beat Rays for 2-1 ALCS leadThe Washington Times, Oct 18, 10:00 PM ET: Rasmussen shines as Rays beat Guardians in Game 5 to take a 3-2 ALCS leadAPAPAP, Oct 16, 5:00 PM ET: Guardians to open with Shawn Armstrong; Rays start Nick Martinez in ALCS Game 4AP, Oct 18, 11:00 PM ET: Rasmussen shines as the Rays beat the Guardians 3-1 in Game 5 to take a 3-2 ALCS leadAP, Oct 19, 1:00 AM ET: Rasmussen shines as Rays beat Guardians 3-1 in Game 5 to take a 3-2 ALCS leadUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 16, 9:00 PM ET: Guardians, Rays battle in pivotal ALCS Game 4Tampa Bay TimesTampa Bay TimesTampa Bay Times, Oct 18, 12:01 AM ET: Rays hang on to beat Guardians and even ALCS, ensuring a return to Trop • Sports commentTampa Bay Times, Oct 18, 9:00 PM ET: Rays beat Guardians again, return home one win from World Series berth • Sports commentTampa Bay Times, Oct 18, 9:00 PM ET: Rays beat Guardians again, return home one win from World Series berthThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 18, 12:01 AM ET: Rays punish Cleveland defensive lapses to square ALCS at two games apieceThe Guardian, Oct 18, 9:00 PM ET: Rays on verge of World Series return after Rasmussen dazzles in win over GuardiansChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 18, 1:01 AM ET: Tampa Bay Rays capitalize on Cleveland Guardians errors for 7-3 win to even ALCS at 2-2Chicago Tribune, Oct 18, 10:00 PM ET: Tampa Bay Rays on cusp of World Series after Drew Rasmussen shuts down Cleveland Guardians for 3-2 ALCS leadNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 18, 2:01 AM ET: Rays roll past Guardians in Game 4 to even ALCS as offense busts outNew York Post, Oct 18, 10:00 PM ET: Rays move win away from World Series as ace dominates GuardiansFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 18, 9:00 PM ET: Tampa Bay Rays move one win from World Series after Drew Rasmussen dominates Cleveland GuardiansNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 18, 10:00 PM ET: Drew Rasmussen shines as Rays beat Guardians 3-1 in Game 5 to take ALCS lead📺 TVMSNOW, 5:24 AM ET: RAYS BEAT GUARDIANS IN GAME 5, ON CUSP OF WCCNN, 7:59 AM ET: "Chad Ryland was 6-for-6, including 42-yd winner as time expired in regulationCNN, 8:01 AM ET: MASSEEN, RAYS TAKE 3-2 ALCS LEAD ON GUARDIANSCNN, 8:01 AM ET: "Tampa Bay ace gives up 1 ER in 7 innings in 3-1 win; game 6 tonight in St. Pete📻 radioNPR News Now, Oct 19, 2:10 AM ET: story 3 of 3
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word (NBC News, The Washington Times)

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 guardians 3-1 🐘 rays move

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • AP (3 wordings): “Guardians to open with Shawn Armstrong; Rays start Nick Martinez in ALCS Game 4” → “Rasmussen shines as Rays beat Guardians 3-1 in Game 5 to take a 3-2 ALCS lead”
  • Chicago Tribune (2 wordings): “Tampa Bay Rays capitalize on Cleveland Guardians errors for 7-3 win to even ALCS at 2-2” → “Tampa Bay Rays on cusp of World Series after Drew Rasmussen shuts down Cleveland Guardians for 3-2 ALCS lead”
  • New York Post (2 wordings): “Rays roll past Guardians in Game 4 to even ALCS as offense busts out” → “Rays move win away from World Series as ace dominates Guardians”
  • Tampa Bay Times (3 wordings): “Rays hang on to beat Guardians and even ALCS, ensuring a return to Trop • Sports comment” → “Rays beat Guardians again, return home one win from World Series berth”
  • The Guardian (2 wordings): “Rays punish Cleveland defensive lapses to square ALCS at two games apiece” → “Rays on verge of World Series return after Rasmussen dazzles in win over Guardians”
  • The Washington Times (2 wordings): “Halpin’s go-ahead homer flips Game 3 as Guardians beat Rays for 2-1 ALCS lead” → “Rasmussen shines as Rays beat Guardians in Game 5 to take a 3-2 ALCS lead”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN37 s
MSNOW27 s
  • RAYS BEAT GUARDIANS IN GAME 5, ON CUSP OF WC MSNOW, 27 s
  • "Chad Ryland was 6-for-6, including 42-yd winner as time expired in regulation CNN, 15 s
  • MASSEEN, RAYS TAKE 3-2 ALCS LEAD ON GUARDIANS CNN, 11 s
  • "Tampa Bay ace gives up 1 ER in 7 innings in 3-1 win; game 6 tonight in St. Pete CNN, 11 s

📻 On the radio

  • NPR News Now, Oct 19, 2:10 AM ET: story 3 of 3

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Tampa Bay Rays Cleveland Guardians Shawn Armstrong Nick Martinez

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Rays-Guardians ALCS

  1. ALCS Game 4 postponed due to rain, series resumes Saturday

    Oct 16, 9 PM ET

  2. Rays beat Guardians in Game 5 to take 3-2 ALCS lead (this story)

    Oct 18, 2 AM ET

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