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Month: June 2021

1Jun By James MastrucciNo Comments
Guardians

Triston McKenzie sets new team strikeout record

The Cleveland Baseball Club starting pitcher set a new team record Sunday. Step aside Corey Kluber, this record belongs to Triston McKenzie now. McKenzie struck out eight straight White Sox hitters Sunday and set a new team record in the process. Kluber held the record for just over seven years prior to McKenzie setting the new mark. https://twitter.com/MandyBell02/status/1399465955491782660?s=20 It has been a bit of a disappointing campaign in 2021 for Triston McKenzie as command and walk issues have plagued most of his starts. Seeing McKenzie and strike out 10 batters total including the eight straight is a good sign moving forward for the young pitcher. Cleveland needs McKenzie to step up and be a regular arm in the rotation. If McKenzie can continue to build upon this perfo...
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1Jun By James MastrucciNo Comments
Guardians

Cleveland needs to make some roster changes soon

The time is is coming soon for the Cleveland Baseball Club to make a handful of roster changes. The theme of the 2021 season for the Cleveland Baseball Club has been transition. Continuing to compete while turning over the roster and finding out about some of their younger players. Well, the time is coming to turn the roster over yet again and find out about some more guys. The team is overachieving record wise and is not really a threat to make a postseason run. With injuries starting to pile up it is best to figure out what the team has in two of the often mentioned options in the minors at the expense of two others on the major league roster. Those two on the current roster? Jake Bauers and Yu Chang. The two guys in the minors? Bobby Bradley and Daniel Johnson. Bauers simply...
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1Jun By James MastrucciNo Comments
Game Previews, Guardians

Cleveland splits back-to-back doubleheaders

The Cleveland Baseball Club split their back-to-back doubleheaders with the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago White Sox at home. It was a daunting task facing the Cleveland Baseball Club coming into Sunday. Following the postponement of Saturday's game with the Toronto Blue Jays it set up an uncommon occurrence in baseball, playing doubleheaders on consecutive days. A doubleheader with the Chicago White Sox was already scheduled for Monday due to a previous postponement. It wasn't easy, but Cleveland managed to split the batch of doubleheaders. Funny enough, Cleveland lost the first game of each doubleheaders while winning the second. It was a 4-1 loss early on Sunday and a 6-5 win against Toronto. Chicago won the first game 8-6 in extras, eight innings, while Cleveland came away with ...
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