Jose Ramirez belted two home runs and stole a base on Wednesday against the Royals. It was the third time Ramirez had a multi-homer game with a stolen base, setting a franchise record.
Roberto Alomar, Joe Carter and Albert Belle each did it twice.
It was just the 28th such game in franchise history.
Gavin Williams started a won for the Guardians on Wednesday, his 24th birthday.
Dating back to 1990, he’s the sixth pitcher to start on his birthday at age 24 or younger:
With the victory, Cleveland has now on seven of its last eight games on its starting pitcher’s birthday:
Steven Kwan collected four hits during the Guardians loss to the Phillies on Sunday.
It was his fifth career four-hit game from the leadoff spot, tying him for fifth place in franchise history. The leadoff hitters ahead of him are:
Jose Ramirez collected his 12th career four-hit game against the Phillies on Friday. Considering the longevity of his career, that’s a surprisingly low number.
Ramirez is now tied with Tito Francona, Asdrubal Cabrera and Michael Brantley for 26th on the franchise list of four-hit games.
Tim Herrin entered Friday’s game in the 6th inning with a runner on first and promptly walked all three batters he faced.
It was the 15th time in franchise history a Cleveland pitcher faced at least three batters and walked each one.
The most recent occurrences prior to Herrin:
This is also the first time its happened to Cleveland twice in the same year (Herrin, Karinchak).
Last night for the Padres, Blake Snell walked seven batters while allowing just one run. That seemed rare, so I looked up some stats.
As it turns out, it’s not quiet as historic as a I thought, though still uncommon. The record for walks while only allowing one or fewer runs is, incredibly, 13 by Bud Podbielan for the Reds in 1953 (he later played for Cleveland in 1959).
The Cleveland record is 11 by Herb Score during his historic rookie year in 1955 – he’s one of 10 pitchers with double digit walks while allowing one or fewer runs.
The most recent Cleveland pitchers to match Snell’s line of seven or more walks with one or fewer runs:
Josh Naylor belted two home runs and drove in six against the Pirates on Tuesday.
It was his second career multi-homer game with at least six RBI, making him the 12th player in franchise history to accomplish the feat at least twice.
The others:
Logan Allen tossed five innings of one-hit shutout ball against the Pirates on Monday.
It was just the eighth time in franchise history the starting pitcher was pulled after five innings of work with a one-hit shutout in the works.
The others:
Sam Hentges entered last night’s game with the Guardians leading 3-0, which means he recorded a hold despite the final score ending up at 11-0.
It’s the 11th time in franchise history someone has recorded a hold in a game that was ultimately won by double digits.
The others:
The Guardians took down Pittsburgh 11-0 on Monday night in a bullpen game started by Xzavion Curry, who tossed three shutout inning.
It was the fifth time in franchise history Cleveland pitched a shutout despite no pitcher going more than three innings, and the fourth time in a full nine-inning game.
This was also the first time in franchise history Cleveland won a shutout by 10 or more runs in a National League ballpark, and just the 8th shutout win by 10 or more runs in any road ballpark dating back to 2000.