Guardians Win! Yay!

What a splendid eve this was. The sun was shining through the blinds, perfect weather, partly cloudy. Picturesque. And, the Guardians won. It’s nice to write about a win every once in a while — as a treat.

The Guardians actually sort of got to a starting pitcher today! They tagged Sandy Alcantara for 3 runs in the first 5 innings. Both Messick and Alcantara were pitching shutouts through 3, and then Rocchio singled to start the 4th. Then, our sweet Chase DeLauter hit a rocket. A moonshot. A nuke. A blast. 430’ to right-center on a genuinely unreal swing.

Homer no. 10 on the year. wRC+ up to 124 on the season.

In the 5th, the Guardians had Hedges (single) and Kwan (long single) at the corners with one out. Bazzana did his job, and drove Hedges in with a sac fly. 3-0. That would be it for the Guardians offense on the evening.

Messick was decent tonight. 6 innings of 1-run ball. 4 walks and nearly as many balls as strikes thrown was a little concerning, but the end result was great.

Sabrowski was, well, not great. Again. Gave up a 407 foot homer to Leo Jimenez and then walked Esteury Ruiz (who recorded 3 walks and, by the way, was showing bunt up 2-0 and took all the way on 3-1). (Esteury Ruiz who, by the way, is an atrocious hitter). That was it for Sabrowski in another extremely disappointing outing since returning from the injured list.

Holderman relieved Sabrowski, and gave up a single (that got just past Bazzana). First and second, one out. He then struck out Joe Mack in an extremely gritty 9-pitch at-bat. And then got Otto Lopez (batting .345 going into today, .890 OPS) to ground out. Fantastic.

Gaddis pitched the 8th and gave up a bloop-y single to Xavier Edwards, but didn’t concede any runs.

Cade Smith pitched a clean 9th, and that was it!

Not much fanfare to tonight’s game. Which, for what it’s worth, is a welcome change of pace.

It’ll be Bibee vs. Eury Perez tomorrow night.