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Cleveland Baseball History

Extra-Base Hit Drought to Start Career

22 games into ‘s career, he’s still searching for his first extra-base hit.

Excluding pitchers, that’s the 18th longest streak to begin a career in team history.

Here are the longest in the Jacobs Field Era:

The franchise record is 56 games, set by during the 1984 and 1987 seasons (he spent all of 1985-86 in the minors).

Gavin Williams 8 Wins Before June 1

In Wednesday’s 3-2 win over the Nationals, allowed one run over seven innings, improving to 8-3 on the year.

He’s just the eighth Cleveland pitcher over the last 50 seasons to pick up at least eight victories before the end of May, joining:

Five of the previous seven made the All-Star team (not Martinez or Swindell), two of them started the All-Star game (Lee, Nagy) and two went on to win the Cy Young (Sabathia, Lee).

Tanner Bibee Gives up 5 HR

The Nationals helped tie a franchise record on Monday night, belting five home runs off Cleveland’s starter.

Bibee joins (2022 vs CHW), (1969 at BOS) and (1962 vs MIN) as the only players in franchise history to allow five home runs in a single game.

Bibee is the first player in franchise history to allow five home runs within the first three innings of the game.

It was also the second time Bibee has allowed four homers in a game.

Bibee is one of just 11 pitchers in franchise history with multiple 4-HR outings, joining:

3 Hits and a HR from Leadoff Spot

In just his 24th career game, went 3-4 with a homer on Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia.

He’s the fifth fastest in franchise history to post that stat line from the leadoff spot, trailing only:

Glynn did so in his fourth game in Cleveland, but had previously played 8 games for the Phillies in 1949.

1-0 Win on Manzardo’s HR

The Guardians topped the Phillies 1-0 on Friday night thanks to a 9th-inning pinch-hit home run by .

It was the Guardians first go-ahead pinch-hit homer in the 9th inning or later since had two walk-off pitch-hit homers in 2013.

It was also just the second pinch-hit home run to break a 0-0 tie in franchise history. Incredibly, the first one happened just two years ago when broke a 0-0 tie against Boston in the 7th inning with a pinch-hit homer.

This is also the 45th time in franchise history Cleveland won a 1-0 game with a home run providing the only offense. The most recent occurrences before tonight:

And it’s just the 12th time that 1-0 win featured a homer in the 9th inning or later. Here’s the full list of the others:

Holds Through 50 Games

In the Guardians 50th game of the season on Tuesday night, picked up his 17 save of the season, tying him with JoJo Romero of the 2017 Cardinals for the second most in MLB history.

The record is 18, set by the Pirates’ Mark Melancon in 2013.

The previous franchise record was 13 by (2013), (2017) and (2025).

5 Players with a HR at Home

The Guardians hit six home runs in Sunday’s win over the Reds by five different players.

It was just the sixth time since moving into Jacobs Field in 1994 that the team had five different players homer in the same game:

Ramirez Reaches 20 SB

In Saturday’s game against the Reds, stole his 19th and 20th bases of the season in just his 47 game.

It’s the eighth fewest games to 20 steals in team history and only three other individuals have done it faster.

Here’s the list:

  • 1990 , 24 games
  • 1996 , 30 games
  • 1992 Lofton, 37 games
  • 1980 , 38 games
  • 1981 Dilone, 38 games
  • 1994 Lofton, 39 games
  • 1993 Lofton, 41 games

At age 33, Ramirez is easily the oldest of the group. The previous team record for most stolen bases through 47 games by a player age 33 or older was just 8 by in 2018.

Ramirez is also just the 15th player in MLB history to reach 20 stolen bases in 47 games or fewer. The most recent to do so:

  • 2008 Ichiro Suzuki
  • 2001 Mark McLemore
  • 1997
  • 1993 Rickey Henderson

 

Four Hits from Nine-Hole

In Sunday’s loss to the Twins, went 4-4 with two run scored while batting ninth.

It was just the ninth time someone collected four hits from the nine-hole at home since Jacobs Field opened in 1994.

The others:

Rocchio and Asdrubal were the only ones to do so in a losing effort.

The last to so home or away was in Kansas City in 2019.