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Cleveland Baseball History

First-Half Hits by Rookies

June 12, 2026

Something to keep an eye on over the next month is ‘s hit total, as he has a chance to climb the leaderboard of most first-half hits by Cleveland rookies.

Here’s the list so far entering the 2026 season:

If you search on baseball-reference it will turn up ‘s 1950 season as his rookie year (with 86 first-half hits). But he was on the roster for the entirety of May and June in 1949, making him ineligible (the fact that he received MVP votes but no rookie of the year votes is also evidence he was not considered a rookie at the time).

Most Saves in a Month

June 1, 2026

Guardians closer just wrapped up a dominant month of May with a 1.32 ERA while recording a team-record 13 saves.

Here’s the list of the most saves in a calendar month for Cleveland:

Consecutive winless starts to open the season

June 1, 2026

The Guardians bullpen blew a 3-2 lead against Boston on Sunday afternoon, extending ‘s winless streak to 13 games, a franchise record to open the season.

Here’s Cleveland’s all-time leaderboard of winless streaks to open the year:

It’s also worth mentioning , who had a streak of 16 winless starts in 2004 – eight with the Rockies and then eight more after being acquired by Cleveland.

Bibee hasn’t been great, but he also doesn’t deserve to be winless in 13 starts.

Hentges, Waits, McDowell and Mejia all had ERAs of 5.50 or worse.

Bibee’s ERA sits at 4.57, though Morton’s inability to win a game despite a 3.24 ERA was even more baffling.

The MLB record technically belongs to Ryan Stanek, who had separate winless streaks of 27 and 29 games for Tampa, but those were as an opener. The real record is 23 games by Oakland’s Matt Keough in 1979.

Fastest to 20 Saves

May 30, 2026

The Guardians took down the Red Sox on Friday night allowing to pick up his 20th save of the season.

He’s tied for the fourth fastest in team history to reach 20 saves:

Extra-Base Hit Drought to Start Career

May 29, 2026

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

May 28, 2026

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

May 26, 2026

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

May 25, 2026

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

May 23, 2026

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: