Daily Archives: May 6, 2021

Cleveland completes sweep of Royals

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The Cleveland Baseball Club completed the four game sweep of the Kansa City Royals.

After winning the first three games of their series with the Kansas City Royals, the Cleveland Baseball Club came into Thursday with a chance to sweep the series. That is just what they did after completing a 4-0 victory on the road to win their fifth straight game overall.

Triston McKenzie was the starter for Cleveland and this was the type of outing he truly needed. McKenzie only allowed 2 hits over 5 innings of work while striking out 5. The one area that still needs some work is the free passes as he walked 5 batters in the contest. Overall this is step in the right direction for the young pitcher.

The combination of Nick Sandlin and James Karinchak handled inning 6-8. Sandlin and Karinchak did not allow a hit and the only base runner allowed was on a walk by Karinchak.

The 9th inning got a bit dicey as the first two Royals reached base with Emmanuel Clase on the mound. Luckily Clase was able to get a double play ball and a strikeout to finish off the contest.

What about the offense?

Cleveland pounded out 11 hits in the contest as they scratched across 4 runs. The scoring started in the 2nd inning with Amed Rosario driving in Harold Ramirez.

The Cleveland lead increased to 2 with a RBI single from Jordan Luplow. Luplow drove in Rene Rivera on the play. Speaking of Rivera, the veteran catcher went 3-4 at the plate in his debut with the team, not too shabby.

In the 6th it was Rosario again, this time with triple that scored Franmil Reyes. With the two hits the contest Rosario’s batting average is back above .200 on the season.

Reyes came up to bat in the 8th and launched his eighth home run of the season to give Cleveland a little more room in the 9th.

Considering how that inning started it made things a big more palatable after the first two batters reached in the inning.

With the win Cleveland is now atop the American League Central at 17-13 on the year. They will return home to finish off their Ohio Cup series with the Reds starting Friday.

Monsters top Griffins in Grand Rapids 3-2

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The Cleveland Monsters traveled to Grand Rapids and came away with a 3-2 win over the Griffins.

The last time the Cleveland Monsters traveled to Grand Rapids things did not go their way as they lost 2-1 to the Griffins. This time around things were different as Cleveland made their way up to the Van Andel Arena and came away with a 3-2 victory.

The Monsters got on the board first thanks to a goal from Tyler Angle 9:44 into the 1st period. It was the Tyler connection as Tyler Sikura was one of two Cleveland players to be credited with an assist on the goal, the other being Carson Meyer.

The 2nd period started off with a bang as Cleveland’s lead grew to two. It was Justin Scott scoring this time and was assisted by Josh Dunne and Thomas Schemitsch. The Monsters two goal lead did not last long as Grand Rapids drew within one about midway through the 2nd period.

Grand Rapids was not willing to go down easy as they tied the game 4:12 into the 3rd period. The once comfortable two goal lead for the Monsters was now gone and the team had to compose themselves if they wanted to come away with a win. Luckily Josh Dunne decided to get in on the goal scoring action after assisting on a goal earlier in the game. With 2:44 left to play it was Dunne who scored what ended up being the game winner for Cleveland. Cifff Pu and Dillon Simpson assisted on the game winner and the Monsters were able to come out victorious this time.

Justin Kapelmaster started the second consecutive game for Cleveland in net and was able to get the job done. Kapelmaster managed to stop 26 of Grand Rapids 28 shot on goal in the contest.

Cleveland will face off with the Griffins three more times before the season comes to a close, so there will be plenty of chances for some mayhem to ensue between the two clubs.

Cavaliers throttled by Trail Blazers

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The Cleveland Cavaliers were absolutely demolished from the by the visiting Portland Trail Blazers 141-105.

After the 1st quarter things seemed to be going fine for the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavs were only down 1 point against the significantly better Portland Trail Blazers and the game might have been competitive. Unfortunately the 1st quarter was the outlier as Portland outscored Cleveland 112-77 over the next three quarters. The Trail Blazers scored 35 or more points in quarters 2-4 while Cleveland did not break 30 once in the contest. Cleveland was simply not able to keep up for the majority of the game and it shows in the final score.

Kevin Love was the leading scorer for the Cavaliers, finishing with 18 points on 7-14 from the floor including 4-10 from three. Love also holds the dubious honor of having the lowest +/- for the game with a -45.

Collin Sexton displayed his usual inefficient shooting as he went 6-15, missing all three attempts from deep. Sexton’s plus/minus was also not great sitting at -22 on the night.

There was the return of one former Cavaliers fan favorite, Anderson Varejao. Varejao played 7 minutes off the bench, finishing with 6 rebounds, 1 block and 1 point.

It is now run out the clock time for the Cavaliers. Field whatever surrender lineup they can conjure up and avoid serious injuries for key players. That’s really all that Cleveland can do at this point, position themselves for a high lottery pick.

Cleveland comes back again in Kansas City

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The Cleveland Baseball Club rallied yet again to come away with a 5-4 road victory in Kansas City.

Just one day after scoring five unanswered runs and two after scoring seven in a row, the Cleveland Baseball Club scored five consecutive runs to defeat the Kansas City Royals 5-4. This was the third straight win over the Royals for Cleveland and all were in comeback fashion.

All four runs for Kansas City came with Shane Bieber on the mound. Only three of the runs that came across were earned, tied for his highest total in a game this season. However the four runs scoring is a season-high for Cleveland’s ace even though one was unearned. The nine hits allowed is a season-high and the 16 total over the last 12 innings is a bit concerning as hit totals are increasing in his last two starts. Although, history does say that this number will decrease as time goes on.

It was after Bieber left the game that the magic happened offensively for Cleveland. In the 8th inning they found themselves down 4-3 and Jose Ramirez proceeded to clobber a solo shot to tie the game off of former starter Jakob Junis.

With the game now tied at 4 it was Josh Naylor coming through in the clutch. Naylor managed to send a Wade Davis pitch over the right field fence, giving Cleveland a 5-4 lead.

After taking the lead it was James Karinchak who came on for the save. Karinchak struck out two of three batters faced on 14 pitches to secure the win for Cleveland.