Ramírez Hits for a Cycle Across Two ALDS Games, Joining Postseason History's Rarest Club

José Ramírez has picked the biggest week of the season to look like José Ramírez again. The Guardians' seven-time All-Star third baseman drove a 99.9-mph fastball from Jordan Hicks to right-center for a two-run homer in Thursday's 9-5 Game 4 win over the White Sox at Rate Field — his first postseason home run since 2024, the fifth of his career, and only his second since Sept. 1. Combined with the double and triple he hit in Cleveland's 9-3 Game 3 victory the night before, plus an infield single in Game 4, Ramírez has now hit for a cycle across a two-game postseason span — single, double, triple and home run in back-to-back October games. MLB researcher Sarah Langs noted Thursday that only four players before him had ever done it: Stephen Drew (2007), Paul Molitor (1993), Rickey Henderson (1989) and Lou Brock (1968). Langs' line also included a stolen base, making the feat rarer still. Ramírez drove in three runs in Game 4, and manager Stephen Vogt summed it up simply: "It was José Ramírez being José Ramírez in the playoffs." Ramírez himself put it down to the team: "What this team is doing is only what we know how to do," he said through a translator. The surge has kept Cleveland alive. After dropping the first two games at home, the Guardians won twice in Chicago and head back to Progressive Field for a winner-take-all Game 5 on Saturday night. The winner opens the American League Championship Series at Tampa Bay on Monday.