Nathaniel Lowe news
The gist
Nathaniel Lowe hit a go-ahead two-run single in the eighth as Cleveland beat Tampa Bay 7-3.
The 0-2 hit decided ALCS Game 1 and rewarded his late-season trade to Cleveland.
How it unfolded
- 2023Lowe won a World Series with the Texas Rangers; that summer his mother Wendy was diagnosed with a glioblastoma near her motor cortex.
- 2024Lowe arrived at spring training and tore his oblique.
- 2025Wendy's condition worsened; she watched her sons square off in Tampa last September, Nathaniel with the Boston Red Sox and Josh with the Rays.