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10 Losses Before August

In Saturday’s shutout loss the Rays, suffered his 10th loss of the year despite maintaining a 3.89 ERA on the season.

He’s the 11th Cleveland pitcher since 1990 to lose 10 games before August and just the third to do so with an ERA under 4.00:

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:

More HBP than K

Mariners rookie Emerson Hancock got the win last night against Cleveland despite hitting more batters (two) than strikeouts recorded (one).

He’s the first starter to defeat Cleveland with more HBP than strikeouts since Boston’s Clay Buchholz in 2012.

The most recent Cleveland pitchers to win such a game: