Daily Archives: June 29, 2021

Cleveland signs Zack Godley to minor league deal

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The Cleveland Baseball Club has agreed to a minor league deal with the right hander, assigning him to Triple-A Columbus.

One thing is abundantly clear about the Cleveland Baseball Club this season, they need all the pitching help they can get. Just a few days after agreeing to a deal with Brad Peacock, Cleveland has signed Zack Godley to a minor league deal.

Like with Peacock, Cleveland has assigned Zack Godley to Triple-A Columbus.

Zack Godley has been mostly inconsistent since his career year in 2017 with Arizona. During that season Godley pitched to the tune of a 3.37 ERA, 1.142 WHIP, and 9.6 K/9. With the exception of a six game stint with Toronto in 2019, those numbers have for the most part been worse for Godley. The only stat that has improved is strikeouts per nine and that was in 3.1 innings this season with Milwaukee (13.5). Taking into consideration that the number Godley was posting is unsustainable, it is not out of the question this statistic also drops below his previous career-best.

Cleveland recalls Mercado, Allen, place Naylor on IL

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The Cleveland Baseball Club has recalled Oscar Mercado and Logan Allen while placing Josh Naylor on the injured list and optioning Kyle Nelson.

A handful of moves were made by the Cleveland Baseball Club Monday afternoon. Josh Naylor was placed on the injured list after his injury in Sunday’s loss to the Twins. The team proceeded to recall Oscar Mercado as they needed an outfielder in addition to also recalling Logan Allen to help out their depleted pitching staff. In addition to those moves the team also optioned Kyle Nelson to Triple-A Columbus.

The plan is to start Logan Allen on Thursday, but Terry Francona that could change if needed.

Cleveland has needed to be flexible and adapt as needed this season. Even with all of the injuries and adversity this team has faced they are miraculously just 2 games behind the division leading White Sox and 2.5 games behind the Oakland Athletics for the second Wild Card spot.

Cleveland dominates Detroit in 13-5 win

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The Cleveland Baseball Club completely dominated the visiting Detroit Tigers with a season-high 13 runs in their eight run victory.

After a weekend that saw the Cleveland Baseball Club drop two of three to the Minnesota Twins and lose Josh Naylor for the foreseeable future, a big offensive showing was desperately needed. Luckily for the Cleveland, the Tigers came to town and they teed off on the Detroit pitching staff.

Cleveland raced out to an early 2-0 lead in the 1st with a RBI groundout from Jose Ramirez and a sacrifice fly from Eddie Rosario, driving in Cesar Hernandez and Amed Rosario respectively. After the Tigers scored a run in the 2nd, Cleveland added three more to their total. Bradley Zimmer drove in Harold Ramirez to bring their lead back to two. Austin Hedges would follow with a two-run homer, his fourth of the season.

Detroit would score again the 4th to cut into the Cleveland lead yet again. Just like earlier in the game Cleveland would answer with four runs in the inning. Cesar Hernandez would drive in Ernie Clement to make it a 6-2 lead. Jose Ramirez came up next and clobbered a three-run homer to increase the lead to seven.

The Tigers would answer again on a two-run homer to cut the lead to five. Cleveland’s lead would again grow back to seven thanks to a RBI single from Harold Ramirez and a sacrifice fly from Austin Hedges.

Eddie Rosario would double home Jose Ramirez in the 6th to make it a 12-4 game. Then in the 7th Jose Ramirez would drive in his fifth run of the game on a RBI single allowing Ernie Clement to score.

Cleveland’s pitching does just enough

With the way that Cleveland’s offense has been this season, giving up five runs in a game might end up with a loss. Thankfully the offense decided to unload on the Tigers allowing a lot of breathing room for a depleted pitching staff.

Eli Morgan won his first career game despite allowing four runs on six hits with four strikeouts. Three of the four runs allowed by Morgan came on the long ball as Miguel Cabrera and Jake Rogers took him deep.

Nick Sandlin would pitch a scoreless 6th inning with two strikeouts and Blake Parker struck out all three batters he faced in the 7th.

Nick Wittgren was the only other Cleveland pitcher to allow a run. Wittgren surrendered a solo home run Robbie Grossman in the 8th. Bryan Shaw would pitch the final frame, walking one and striking out another.

Game 2 between Cleveland and Detroit will take place at 7:10 P.M. Tuesday at Progressive Field.