Logan Allen gave up 22 home runs in his 20 starts this year, but only struck out 79 batters. It’s relatively rare for a starter to have fewer than four times as many strikeouts as homers allowed.
Over the last 20 seasons, here are the others to fall below that threshold with at least 20 starts.
Last night against the Blue Jays, all six pitchers used by the Guardians recorded either a win, hold or save.
It’s just the eighth time in franchise history the team used at least six pitchers and everyone recorded a decision.
| Date | Opp | Win | Hold | Hold | Hold | Hold | Hold | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/14/2024 | TOR | Logan Allen | Cade Smith | Scott Barlow | Sam Hentges | Hunter Gaddis | Emmanuel Clase | |
| 9/8/2023 | LAA | Logan Allen | Nick Sandlin | Sam Hentges | Reynaldo Lopez | Trevor Stephan | Emmanuel Clase | |
| 10/1/2017 | CHW | Josh Tomlin | Joe Smith | Tyler Olson | Zach McAllister | Andrew Miller | Bryan Shaw | Cody Allen |
| 9/9/2017 | BAL | Josh Tomlin | Joe Smith | Craig Breslow | Dan Otero | Bryan Shaw | Cody Allen | |
| 7/15/2011 | BAL | Josh Tomlin | Chad Durbin | Rafael Perez | Joe Smith | Vinnie Pestano | Chris Perez | |
| 8/1/2010 | TOR | Jeanmar Gomez | Tony Sipp | Frank Hermann | Rafael Perez | Joe Smith | Chris Perez | |
| 4/1/1998 | SEA | Jaret Wright | Eric Plunk | Al Morman | Jose Mesa | Paul Assenmacher | Mike Jackson | |
| 9/6/1997 | CHW | Bartolo Colon | Albie Lopez | Al Morman | Mike Jackson | Paul Assenmacher | Jose Mesa |
Over the past three games, Gavin Williams, Tanner Bibee and Logan Allen have combined to allow just one run in 19 innings of work.
Their one run allowed is the fewest combined runs allowed by rookie starting pitchers in three consecutive games in franchise history, breaking a record set by Bibee, Allen and Xzavion Curry earlier this year.
On a more depressing note, it was just the third time in franchise history the team won just one game in a three-game span in which its starting pitchers allowed one or fewer runs. The other instances:
Gavin Williams’s 12 strikeouts against the Blue Jays was the most by a Cleveland rookie since Luis Tiant in 1964.
With it being Williams’s ninth career outing, he’s also the 11th fastest in franchise history to his first career double-digit strikeout performance.
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Logan Allen tossed five innings of one-hit shutout ball against the Pirates on Monday.
It was just the eighth time in franchise history the starting pitcher was pulled after five innings of work with a one-hit shutout in the works.
The others:
Logan Allen has 33 strikeouts through his first six career games, while Tanner Bibee has 34. The era in which which we’re in is a big factor here, but those are the sixth and seventh most strikeouts through six games in franchise history.
The list: