The Guardians offense remains completely invisible, and in the first inning last night, they lost 100% of their home run output.
Chase DeLauter fouled a ball off his foot and could not run to first base later in the AB. CJ Kayfus replaced him in the lineup and was an easy out for the 8 innings that followed.
Tanner Bibee was able to make his start as scheduled, but went just 4 innings because the team was rightly cautious in the steady light rain.
Shohei Ohtani was Bibee’s opponent, and did nothing special, but looking merely decent is enough when your’e facing Cleveland’s “offense.”
In addition to being bad at hitting, the Guardian position players are really bad at challenging balls and strikes. 0-for-2 yet again.
It’s a shame this organization is never going to figure hitting out. It would seemingly be impossible to always be this bad. Really depressing to watch. They just refuse to find a competent hitting coach. Every year we think “Well, they have to be better THIS year because it would be impossible to be worse”—and then they find a way to be worse. By xBA, 9 of the 10 batted balls most likely to be a hit were batted by Dodgers.
The Guards scored a meaningless run in the 9th. Dodgers 4, Guardians 1.
Around baseball
• The Tigers had a 5-0 lead after 3 and a 5-1 lead after 7. They gave up 6 runs in the 8th. This division looks terrible yet again.
• Aaron Civale picked up a win for the Sacramento A’s—their first W of the season.
• The Mariners, possibly getting ahead of a new CBA, locked up prospect Colt Emerson for 95M.
• FG hyped DeLauter earlier in the day before his injury.
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