The Guardians let Slade Cecconi 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:
- 2006 – Jake Westbrook
- 1999 – Dave Burba
- 1994 – Charles Nagy (x2)
- 1994 – Jason Grimsley (the last to allow 7 earned runs)
- 1992 – Nagy
- 1992 – Jack Armstrong