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Leadoff Home Runs Allowed

June 18, 2026

In Wednesday’s loss to the Brewers, gave up a leadoff home run to Christian Yelich.

It was the seventh time in his career he’s surrendered a leadoff homer, tying the franchise record, which was also tied by earlier this year.

Here’s the leaderboard:

Bibee and Williams also share the team record for most leadoff home runs allowed in a year with four (Bibee this year, Williams last year).

The rise in power hitters batting leadoff is a key factor in these lists featuring recent pitchers. Here’s what the leaderboard looked like entering the 2015 season:

At that point in time, Niekro and shared the team record for leadoff homers allowed in a season, both allowing three in 1987.

[Note: Leadoff home runs are sometimes defined as only being by the road team. For the purposes of this stat, I’m including the first batter of the game for each team.]

Gavin Williams 8 Wins Before June 1

May 28, 2026

In Wednesday’s 3-2 win over the Nationals, allowed one run over seven innings, improving to 8-3 on the year.

He’s just the eighth Cleveland pitcher over the last 50 seasons to pick up at least eight victories before the end of May, joining:

Five of the previous seven made the All-Star team (not Martinez or Swindell), two of them started the All-Star game (Lee, Nagy) and two went on to win the Cy Young (Sabathia, Lee).

Dominating The Defending Champs

April 2, 2026

The Guardians topped the Dodgers 4-1 last night behind seven shutout innings and 10 strikeouts from .

Over the last 50 seasons, only three other Cleveland pitchers have tossed at least seven shutout innings with 10 or more Ks against the defending champs:

Colon’s one-hut shutout against the Yankees is the team’s last complete game shutout against the defending champs

Others with a complete game shutout of the title defenders in the last 50 years:

Joey Cantillo’s Strikeouts

October 9, 2025

Although made nine starts a season ago, he maintained his rookie status in 2025 and posted some impressive numbers.

Cantillo became just the third rookie in franchise history (minimum 10 starts) to post a K-per-9 rate above 10.

Most strikeouts by nine innings by Cleveland rookies (min. 10 starts)

Of course Score’s number is truly the most impressive on the list given the era in which he pitched.

Of the 18 Cleveland rookies with at least 7.5 K per 9, Score and (8.5 in 2001) and (8.3 in 1964) are the only ones pre-2012.

Worst SP ERA Thru 9 Games

April 7, 2025

Guardians starting pitchers have a 6.70 ERA through the team’s first nine games, the fifth worst in team history.

Year ERA SP
2009 9.28 , , , , ,
1997 8.39 , , , ,
1987 8.17 , , , ,
2001 6.89 Bartolo Colon, , , ,
2025 6.70 , , , ,

2 Homers and Shutout

July 31, 2023

Jose Ramirez belted two home runs on Sunday afternoon as Cleveland shutout the White Sox behind and the bullpen.

Dating back to 2000, it was the 16th time a Cleveland hitter had a multi-homer game in a shutout, and the fifth time it has involved Ramirez.

Here’s the rest list with the hitter, followed by the starting pitcher:

Gavin Williams Wins on Birthday

July 26, 2023

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: