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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).

Williams is Walking Everyone

April 14, 2026

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.

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:

One-Hitter with a Home Run

August 6, 2025

The Guardians nearly ended their 44-year no-hitter drought as came within two outs of a no-hitter before Juan Soto ended the bid with a home run.

Instead, it’s the seventh time in team history Cleveland has pitched a one-hitter with that one hit being a homer.

Lowrie’s homer off Hagadone also came with one out in the 9th.

Gavin Williams One-Hitters

June 1, 2025

For the fourth time in his career, allowed just one hit in a start of at least six innings on Sunday afternoon against the Angels.

Since ‘s no-hitter in 1981, only has more starts of at least six innings and an one or fewer hits allowed than Williams’ four (Cookie did it six times).

Youngest with Grand Slam Against Cleveland

April 17, 2025

Last night in the second inning, Orioles rookie Jackson Holliday became the fourth youngest to hit a grand slam against Cleveland.

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 , , , ,

Gavin Williams Winless at Home

October 21, 2024

Gavin Williams went 0-7 in his seven starts at Progressive Field this season, becoming the fifth pitcher in franchise history to fail to record a win in at least seven home starts.

The others:

Cleveland won at least one home game started by each of the other pitchers, however. So Williams is the first player in franchise history to make at least seven starts at home and have the team go winless in every game – a streak which was unfortunately extended to eight games in the ALCS against the Yankees.

The previous record for most home starts without the team recording a win was six by in 1981, his final season with the Tribe.

HBP and BB with Bases Loaded

July 21, 2024

In the fourth inning on Saturday night, loaded the bases against the Padres, then walked Luis Arraez and two batters later hit Jake Cronenworth.

It was just the ninth time in the last 100 years a Cleveland pitcher walked a batter and hit a batter with the bases loaded.

Everyone on the list except Williams and Feller did it to consecutive batters.

Eckersley’s meltdown was a historically embarrassing moment for the team. In the bottom of the 9th, with the Indians leading 2-1 at Chicago, rookie manager called up Eck – a rookie reliever making just his ninth career appearance. Eck promptly hit the first batter, tying the game, then issued a walk-off-walk to the next batter.