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Juan Brito’s Hot Start

April 9, 2026

Through two career games, is batting .500, having gone 2-4 in each game.

He’s the 11th player in franchise history with at least two hits in each of his first two career games.

The others:

Only Stephenson extended his streak, eventually reaching six games.

Brito, Jones, Gonzalez and Weatherly are the only players on the list with at least one of their two hits each game going for extra bases

Four Hits and a Grand Slam

April 8, 2026

In Wednesday’s blowout win over the Royals, collected four hits and capped off his day with an 8th inning grand slam.

He’s the 15th player in franchise history with four hits and a grand slam in a game, and the first since 2010

Here’s the list

Martinez is the first to also add a stolen base to his stat line.

Manzardo’s Historically Embarrassing Start

April 7, 2026

Through his first 10 games of the season, is 2-32, a pitiful .063 batting average.

Throughout franchise history, only two others have been worse (with at least 35 plate appearances) through 10 games. Here’s the list:

Tucker was a September call-up who never played against in the big leagues. Leon was a backup catcher who had minimal preparation in that weird 2020 season. O’Neill was also a catcher. And Score, Moore and Mails are pitchers.

Yikes.

Parker Messick Through Nine Starts

April 6, 2026

In Sunday’s 6-5 win over the Cubs, allowed just one run over five innings, lowering his career ERA to 2.31 through nine starts.

Over the last 100 seasons, only two others have posted a lower ERA through nine career games (minimum 50 IP) with Cleveland:

It’s also the second consecutive years in which Messick has generated an ERA under 1.00 through his first two appearances of the season.

He’s just the fifth Cleveland pitcher in the last 100 years to accomplish that feat (minimum 10 IP):

Tiant, and also did it two (Harder three times) but in non-consecutive years.

DeLauter’s 5 HR Through 7 Games

April 3, 2026

In the home opener, did it again, blasting his fifth homer in his just seventh game.

He’s the fourth player in history with at least five homers through seven career regular season games, joining:

  • Trevor Story, 7
  • Rece Hinds, 5
  • Mark Quinn, 5

also had five home runs through the first seven games in which he had a plate appearance with the 2007 Yankees. However, in his third career game he was a defensive replacement and did not come to the plate, so technically it took him eight games to reach five home runs.

The previous franchise record was four, by in 1988.

and were the only others with three.

DeLauter is also just the sixth player franchise history with five homers through the team’s first eight games, joining:

Dominating The Defending Champs

April 2, 2026

The Guardians topped the Dodgers 4-1 last night behind seven shutout innings and 10 strikeouts from .

Over the last 50 seasons, only three other Cleveland pitchers have tossed at least seven shutout innings with 10 or more Ks against the defending champs:

Colon’s one-hut shutout against the Yankees is the team’s last complete game shutout against the defending champs

Others with a complete game shutout of the title defenders in the last 50 years:

Messick Through 8 Starts

March 31, 2026

In his first start of the year, tossed six scoreless against the Dodgers.

It was the fifth time in his eight career starts that Messick has gone at least six innings while allowing one or fewer runs, tying an MLB record.

He’s 16th player in MLB history to accomplish the feat, though it’s becoming more common for young pitchers to dominate (and get pulled after no more than six innings) that it’s slightly less historic than it sounds.

Here are the most recent pitchers prior to Messick:

  • 2025 – Noah Cameron, KC
  • 2024 – Paul Skenes, PIT
  • 2023 – Bryce Miller, SEA
  • 2017 – Jake Faria, TB
  • 2015 – Eduardo Rodriguez

The previous franchise record was four games by , Bearden and .

The six scoreless innings brought Messick’s career ERA to 2.36.

Among Cleveland pitchers with at least 40 innings pitched through eight career games, that’s the third lowest ERA over the last 100 seasons:

Manzardo 10 K Through 4 Games

March 30, 2026

Through the Guardians first four games in Seattle, went 2-16 with 10 strikeouts, setting a franchise record for the most strikeouts through four games.

He’s just the 10th player in MLB history with double-digit strikeouts through his team’s first four games — a list which includes Cal Raleigh who matched Manzardo’s strikeout total in the same series.

The MLB record is 12 by Rafael Devers last year in Boston.

The previous team record was eight, shared by:

DeLauter HR Streak Reaches Three Games

March 29, 2026

We had to wait until the 10th inning this time, but did it again.

DeLauter, who had homered in the first inning in each of his first two games, hit his fourth home run in three games in the 10th inning off Seattle closer Andrés Muñoz.

He is just the second player in MLB history with four homers through three career games, joining Colorado’s Trevor Story (2016).

Story, DeLauter and Seattle’s Kyle Lewis (2019) are the only players to homer in each of their first three career games.

If DeLauter homers again, he’ll tie Story for the MLB record with a four-game home run streak to begin a career.

DeLauter is also tied with Jorge Soler (2014 Cubs) for the MLB record in total bases through four games with 17.

To add to the impressive nature of the streak, three of DeLauter’s homers have come against Logan Gilbert, George Kirby and Muñoz — none of whom are easy to take deep.

Muñoz only gave up two homers in 2025.

DeLauter’s four homers through three games also doubles the franchise record of two, previously shared by:

DeLauter 3 HR Through 2 Games

March 28, 2026

He did it again.

‘s first-inning home run off Seattle’s George Kirby was his third through two games —  the first two regular-season contests of his career.

He’s just the third player in MLB history with three home runs through his first two regular season games, joining:

  • 2016 Trevor Story, Rockies
  • 1954 Joe Cunningham, Cardinals

DeLauter is also the first player in franchise history with three home runs through the team’s first two games of the season.

Only 15 players had previously hit two home runs through the first two games, most recently in 2007.

DeLauter’s 13 total bases through the team’s first two games is also a franchise record, breaking the mark of 12 previously shared by . (1998), (1955) and (1950).

It’s also the franchise record for the most total bases through two career games, breaking the record of 10 held by (1993), (1977), (1936) and (1929).

The only player in MLB history with more total bases through two games was Cincinnati’s Rece Hinds in 2024. DeLauter is one of just four with 13 or more and only 38 have reached double-digits.