September 17, 2026
After going 1-2 with three walks against the Giants last night, Angel Martinez has reached base nine times through his first four career games. Only three players in franchise history have reached base more times through four games in franchise history.
The others:
Angel Martinez collected two hits today against the White Sox. He’s played in just three games and already has two career multi-hit games.
He’s just the 23rd player in team history with multiple multi-hit games within his first three games. Only Riggs Stevenson in 1921 accomplished the feat in all three games.
The most recent to join the list prior to Martinez:
A few other notables on the list: Jim Hegan (1941), Lou Boudreau (1939) and Earl Averill (1929).
Bo Naylor collected a walk-off RBI on a pinch-hit sacrifice fly last night against the White Sox. It was just the 5th pinch-hit walk-off sac fly for Cleveland over the last 100 years.
The others:
Smith’s walk-off in 1976 gave the Indians a 1-0 victory and secured a 10-inning shutout for Dennis Eckersley. Eck and Luis Tiant had taken dueling shutouts into extra innings.
Jhonkensy Noel homered of Baltimore’s Grayson Rodriguez in his first career at-bat on Wednesday.
He’s just the fourth player in franchise history to homer in his first career at-bat, joining:
Kouzmanoff’s home run was famously a grand slam on the first pitch of his career.
Noel also wore No. 43 in his debut, a common number in team history but rarely by hitters. Noel is just the third position player to wear No. 43, joining Chuck Tanner in 1959 and Mike Aldrete in 1991. Jh
Bo Naylor collected a double and a triple last night at Baltimore. His triple was the first by a Cleveland catcher since Roberto Perez in July 2019 at Kansas City.
Collecting a couple and a triple is even more rare for a catcher, as its happened just four time since 1980:
Last night against the Orioles, Bo Naylor, Gabriel Arias and Brayan Rocchio combined for 7 hits and 5 RBI while occupying the 7-8-9 spots in the order. It was the first time the bottom third of the order collected at least 7 hits and 5 RBI since 2019.
Most recent 7-8-9 hitters with 7+ hits and 5+ RBI:
Over the past two games, Josh Naylor and Jose Ramirez each hit their 20th home run of the season.
It’s the first time anyone for Cleveland reached 20 home runs before the All-Star Game since 2018 and the seventh time in franchise history multiple players reached 20 homers before the break:
Angel Martinez made his MLB debut today against the Blue Jays, making him and his father Sandy Martinez the seventh father/son duo in franchise history. Sandy played one game in 2004 starting at catcher for the injured Victor Martinez.
The other father/son duos: