May 15, 2026
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:
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.
Cody Morris allowed four runs on three homers in the eighth inning against Texas last night.
He becomes just the third Cleveland relief pitcher to surrender three home runs in an inning or less of work, joining:
Josh Naylor and Bo Naylor each homered off Rangers pitcher Jon Gray in the third inning last night. A few fun notes on the accomplishment:
The most recent occurrences were B.J. and Justin Upton in 2013 and 2014 for the Braves. The Uptons homered in the same game six times and the same inning twice.
Cleveland has been involved in a same-game homer for brothers as opponents. In June 1972, Graig Nettles homered for Cleveland, while Jim Nettles homered for the Twins. And in July 1933, Wes Ferrell homered for Cleveland, while Rick Ferrell homered for the Red Sox (off of Wes) in the top and bottom half of the fourth inning.