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Guardians drop series finale in Detroit

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The Cleveland Guardians had a chance to win their series with Detroit but an offensive dud led to a disappointing 2-1 loss. Cleveland won Saturday’s contest by a comfortable 8-1 margin.

While Cleveland had seven hits to Detroit’s four, zero came from the top three batters in the lineup. Myles Straw, Amed Rosario, and Jose Ramirez combined to go 0-11 with Ramirez walking once. Adding the nine hole hitter Steven Kwan to this total makes it a disappointing 0-14. Kwan did reach on a fielder’s choice in the 5th.

Tristan McKenzie surrendered solo home runs to Harold Castro and Jeimer Candelario. Candelario came on for an injured Robbie Grossman in the 3rd. Besides the home runs it was a good outing for McKenzie. McKenzie struck out eight batters while walking one in 7.2 innings. This was the type of performance that should have led to a Guardians win, but the offense let him down.

Cleveland did score a run on a Luke Maile sacrifice fly in the 7th. Andres Gimenez would be the lone Guardians player to come across home plate in the contest.

A return home is in order as the Guardians will take on the Royals for a three game set beginning on Memorial Day.

Guardians walked off by Tigers

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With the game tied at 3 in the bottom of the 9th the Guardians were looking to extend the game to extras for a chance to win. Unfortunately Cleveland Miguel Cabrera had other ideas. The future hall of famer proceeded to hit a walk-off RBI single to hand the Guardys a 4-3 loss.

Prior to the Cabrera’s walk-off single there was a fairly prolonged scoring drought. The two clubs combined for six runs in three innings before going scoreless until the 9th. Detroit scored two runs over the first two innings while Cleveland answered in the 3rd with three runs. It was Luke Maile who got the Guardians on the board first followed by an Owen Miller two-run double to tie the game. After the 3rd inning there were several three up and three down innings by both teams which led to a finish just under three hours.

Pitching for the Guardians was Konnor Pilkington, essentially a last second replacement for Aaron Civale who landed on the IL with a glute injury. Pilkington would allow three runs on seven hits and four walks with four strikeouts in just 3.1 innings of work. Inefficiency would be the way to describe this outing as Pilkington threw 87 pitches 49 of which were for strikes. The Guardians pitcher was lucky to be facing an offensively inept squad in Detroit. If a competent offensive team of any kind was in the other dugout Pilkington’s night could have been over earlier with much more damage on the scoreboard.

Looking forward

The Guardians are now 18-23 on the year which has them in third place in the AL Central, seven games back of the division leading Twins. There are three more games left in Detroit for Cleveland to get back on the right track and being their record closer to .500. If not, some players could be on their way out as the club could become an early seller.

Guardians inactivity hardly surprising

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There was some hope that the Cleveland Guardians would make some additions due to some post-lockout rumors, but alas nothing has come of it. The names linked to Cleveland were some of the higher profile big names, which was surprising. Players such as Trevor Story, Joc Pederson, and Matt Olson. Unfortunately what has become the expectation in Cleveland, those players have ended up elsewhere. The only signing of note that the Guardians have made so far? Backup catcher Luke Maile on a one-year deal.

This has become a yearly tradition, Cleveland reportedly shows interest in some players or are linked in some manner, but ultimately disappointment prevails. Anytime the now Guardians are mentioned in the same sentence as a prominent name skepticism reigns supreme. Each and every year the team makes what end up being lackluster moves resulting in the team moving on at some point during the season. Additionally, players the team needs to get info on are blocked. Players with question marks and prospects who have been in their system for some time. The Guardians need to go in one direction or the other. Either contend and make meaningful additions, or trade away anyone of value and play the kids. Straddling the line of both will result in irrelevance, a death sentence for a team post-rebrand.

Guardians sign Luke Maile

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The Cleveland Guardians have signed catcher Luke Maile to a deal. It is a major league deal which will pay Maile $900,000.

Like Cleveland’s starting catcher, Austin Hedges, Luke Maile is offensively challenged. Maile has a career slash line of .203/.258/.310/.568 with 10 home runs and 63 RBI in 230 games over six years. With the signing of the 31-year old catcher, Cleveland is still not concerned with offense from the catcher position.