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Cleveland Baseball History

2 HR Game by Former Prospect

August 26, 2025

Rays third baseman Junior Caminero hit two home runs against the Guardians on Monday night.

Caminero was originally signed by Cleveland in 2019 but was traded to the Rays for Tobias Myers in 2021 (who unfortunately was also put on waivers before having some success with the Brewers in recent years).

Caminero is the first player with a multi-homer game against Cleveland who was originally signed or drafted by Cleveland but never played for Cleveland since Marco Scutaro in 2009

Scutaro was originally signed by Cleveland out of Venezuela in 1994 and traded to Milwaukee as part of the deal in 2000.

As a member of the Blue Jays in 2009, Scutaro hit two homers, one of and another off .

Logan Allen Allows 9 Runs

August 24, 2025

On Saturday against the Rangers, allowed nine runs in five innings of work.

Despite getting shelled, he was pushed to remain in the game in an effort to preserve the bullpen.

Here are the most recent Cleveland pitchers to give up nine runs in a game prior to Allen:

Giving up nine runs while also pitching five innings is even more rare, however, in this era. Here’s the most recent to match Allen’s nine runs in five innings:

Jersey Number Droughts

August 21, 2025

In his major league debut, wore No. 77, becoming the second player in team history to don the jersey.

first wore it during his lone season in Cleveland in 1992.

The 33 year gap between the number making an appearance on the playing field is the fifth longest gap in team history and the longest by a jersey number that debuted post-1930.

Here’s the list

I’m not sure why they used a few high numbers in 1929 and 1930, but that was out of the norm for that era which led to the extreme gap.

There are three other numbers which have been out of circulation for at least 20 years which have the potential to join the list eventually

Career Cycyle

August 21, 2025

On Wednesday against Arizona, hit his first career triple, giving him a career cycle in his 16th game.

Here’s just the 9th player to collect the career cycle through 16 games or less with Cleveland since 1990, joining:

The fastest to do so in that span was Ward, who needed just eight games in 1990.

The all-time franchise record is five games, shared by (1989) and (1943)

5-Run Saves

August 15, 2025

Since 1975, to record save a pitcher must do one of the following:

  • Enter the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitch at least one inning.
  • Enter the game with the tying run in the on-deck circle, at the plate or on the bases.
  • Pitch at least three innings

Based on the second parameter, if a pitcher enters the game in the 9th inning, the largest possible lead a team can have leading to a save is five runs (bases loaded).

Last night, became the eighth pitcher in team history to record a save in a 5-run victory (excluding those that did so under the three-inning rule).

Here’s the list (* indicates those who faced only one batter):

Smith is also fourth to do so while facing only one batter and the third to do so after entering the game with two outs (the most low-leverage save situation possible – Lilliquist and Farr are the other two).

Prior to saves becoming an official state, also recorded a save after entering with two outs, bases loaded with a five-run lead against the Nationals in 1948.

Throughout all of team history the five-run save with one or fewer innings pitched situation has occurred 31 times. However, if you search Baseball-Reference for saves in which a team led by five or more runs you’ll see a much longer list.

From 1969-74, saves could be awarded at the discretion of the official scorer. And saves have (unofficially) been retroactively awarded to pitchers under that definition as well.

Most of those official scorer decisions make no sense at all.

For example, in 1971, was awarded a save for pitching the ninth inning of a 10-2 Cleveland victory at Boston. That’s absurd.

So while official records may disagree, I’m going to say this is the 31st time a Cleveland reliefer has recorded a save after entering in the ninth inning with a lead of five or more runs, and the fourth time is happened in the most low-leverage situation possible (entering with two outs).

One-Hitter with a Home Run

August 6, 2025

The Guardians nearly ended their 44-year no-hitter drought as came within two outs of a no-hitter before Juan Soto ended the bid with a home run.

Instead, it’s the seventh time in team history Cleveland has pitched a one-hitter with that one hit being a homer.

Lowrie’s homer off Hagadone also came with one out in the 9th.

6 Pitchers in a Shutout

July 31, 2025

Six Guardians pitchers combined for a shutout of the Rockies on Wednesday: , , , , and .

It was the seventh time in franchise history at least six pitchers combined on a shutout and the fifth time in a nine-inning game.

Here’s the list of the others, which includes the MLB-record nine pitchers used in a 10-inning shutout against the Tigers in 2016 which was matched for the first time on Wednesday by the Royals.