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Dominating The Defending Champs

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:

Logan Allen Allows 9 Runs

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:

Slade Cecconi’s Almost CG

The Guardians let attempt a complete game on Friday night against the Athletics, but it went sideways and he allowed three runs before getting pulled in the ninth.

As a result, Cecconi finished with a strange line of six runs allowed in 8.1 innings of work.

This was common through the first 50 or so years of baseball when a complete game was expected no matter what, but even by the 1960s pitchers were rarely sacrificed when it wasn’t going well.

Here are the most recent Cleveland starters to throw allow at least six earned runs in eight or more innings of work:

Worst SP ERA Thru 9 Games

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 , , , ,