May 19, 2026
Last night against Arizona, Hunter Gaddis picked up his 25th hold of the season.
Gaddis also collected 33 holds last year, making him the sixth pitcher in team history with 25 holds in two seasons joining:
No one has reached 25 holds three times for Cleveland.
The Guardians nearly ended their 44-year no-hitter drought as Gavin Williams 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.
Six Guardians pitchers combined for a shutout of the Rockies on Wednesday: Kolby Allard, Matt Festa, Jakob Junis, Nic Enright, Hunter Gaddis and Cade Smith.
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.
In his first start of the year, Luis Ortiz gave up seven runs in 4 2/3 innings on Monday night against the Padres.
Dating back to 1990, there have been 11 pitchers to give up at least seven runs in their Cleveland debut:
*MLB debut
Hunter Gaddis appeared in each of the Guardians first three games, the first pitcher to do so since Joe Smith, Vinnie Pestano and Chris Perez each appeared in the first three games of the 2012 season.
The other most recent occurances:
Joey Cantillo surrendered a home run to the first batter he faced in his MLB debut on Sunday afternoon (Kyle Schwarber). It’s the sixth time in franchise history a pitcher gave up a home run to the first batter he faced.
Robertson’s home run off McCabe was previously the only time it happened to a starting pitcher.
Cantillo later gave up another home run to Schwarber in the third inning. He’s the second player in franchise history to give up two home runs to the same batter in his debut. He joins teammate Hunter Gaddis, who gave up two homers to the Astros’ Trey Mancini in his debut in 2022.