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Williams is Walking Everyone

Things got off to a shaky start with a 32-pitch first inning for on Monday night, but he rallied to get through five innings and picked up the win against the Cardinals.

Through four starts, Williams now has a 2.38 ERA but has only thrown 22 2/3 innings due to an inability to find the strike zone.

Williams has walked 16 batters through his four starts, making him just the sixth Cleveland pitchers since 1990 with at least 16 walks through four games.

The others:

Williams, Finley, Wright and Carmona all had an ERA under 3.00 despite the walks, which sounds surprising but I suppose you have to be limiting the damage in order to be left in the games long enough to keep walking everyone.

Back to Back Gems

In a critical series against the Royals, and tossed 8 scoreless innings in consecutive games on Monday and Tuesday night.

Over the last 40 seasons, it’s just the fourth time starters have tossed at least 8 scoreless innings in consecutive games.

The others:

Lee and Carmona’s gems occurred during a double-header against the Blue Jays.

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:

6 Pitchers in a Shutout

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.

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 , , , ,