May 13, 2026
Last night against the Angels, Tanner Bibee gave up seven runs in four innings. Luis Ortiz gave up seven runs against the Padres his last time out too.
That’s just the 12th time in franchise history at least two starters have allowed seven or more runs in a game through the team’s first eight games.
The last time it happened was in 2013:
On April 4 against the Angels, Jose Ramirez hit three home runs, tying him with Albert Belle and Jim Thome for the most multi home run games in team history (26).
He also became the sixth player in franchise history with multiple three-homer games, joining:
Through the Guardians first six games, Bo Naylor already has three multi-strikeout games (all three games from the three-game sweep at the hands of the Padres). He’s the 40th player in franchise history with three multi-strikeout games through six games.
The record is five, set by Mark DeRosa in 2009.
During the Guardians 7-0 loss to the Padres on Tuesday night, Nolan Jones struck out four times. Dating back to 1980, he’s the team’s 10th player to record a Golden Sombrero in a shutout.
The others:
In his first start of the year, Luis Ortiz gave up seven runs in 4 2/3 innings on Monday night against the Padres.
Dating back to 1990, there have been 11 pitchers to give up at least seven runs in their Cleveland debut:
*MLB debut
Hunter Gaddis appeared in each of the Guardians first three games, the first pitcher to do so since Joe Smith, Vinnie Pestano and Chris Perez each appeared in the first three games of the 2012 season.
The other most recent occurances:
In 6th inning on Opening Day, Kyle Manzardo put Cleveland ahead 4-3 with a two-run home run off Royals’ reliever Angel Zerpa.
It was just the second time in franchise history the team had a go-head home run while trailing in the sixth inning or later on Opening Day.
The first was Tris Speaker in 1925.
Since Emmanuel Clase blew the save on Opening Day, it opened the door for Paul Sewald to come in an record a save in extra innings.
Since the role of closer was first established (roughly the late 1960s, early 1970s), only two pitchers have recorded a save on Opening Day for Cleveland who did not lead the team in saves that year (which is obviously likely the case for Sewald).
In 2014, John Axford recorded the save. He was the Opening Day closer, but Cody Allen was given the job later that year and would lead the team in saves.
In 1997, Paul Shuey recorded the Opening Day save. He was filling in as closer at the start of the year for Jose Mesa, who was inactive due to his active rape trial.
Kyle Manzardo fell a single shy of the cycle on Opening Day against the Royals.
Falling one hit shy of the cycle is not a rare event, but missing out on the single is almost as uncommon as the cycle itself.
Here are the last five instances of a Cleveland hitter collecting a double, triple, home run but no single:
Steven Kwan is the Opening Day lead off hitter for the third consecutive season, becoming the sixth player in franchise history to hold that role on Opening Day in three straight years.
The others: