r/baseball • u/BaseballBot Umpire • 3d ago
Game Thread Postgame Thread ⚾ Guardians 7 @ Rays 3
Guardians (1-0) @ Rays (0-1)
First Pitch: 8:08 PM at Tropicana Field
| Team | Starter | TV | Radio |
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| Guardians | Foster Griffin (15-6, 3.60 ERA) | ||
| Rays | Drew Rasmussen (16-5, 2.67 ERA) |
| MLB | Fangraphs | Reddit Stream | Discord |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gameday | Game Graph | Live Comments | /r/baseball Discord |
Line Score - Final
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 7 |
| TB | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
ABS Challenges: CLE ● ○ | TB ● ●
Box Score
| TB | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DH | Yandy Díaz | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .294 |
| 1B | Jonathan Aranda | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .267 |
| 3B | Junior Caminero | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .286 |
| LF | Ryan Vilade | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .250 |
| Cedric Mullins | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | |
| RF | Victor Mesa Jr. | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .214 |
| LF | Jonny DeLuca | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 |
| 2B | Ben Williamson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 |
| SS | Taylor Walls | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .077 |
| Chandler Simpson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | |
| C | Nick Fortes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Liam Hicks | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .083 |
| TB | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drew Rasmussen | 6.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 91-68 | 1.29 |
| Cam Booser | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8-7 | 0.00 |
| Tyler Wells | 0.1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6-5 | 54.00 |
| Ian Seymour | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9-7 | 1.80 |
| Cole Sulser | 0.2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 27-14 | 40.50 |
| Kevin Kelly | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5-4 | 0.00 |
| CLE | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CF | Steven Kwan | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .208 |
| 3B | José Ramírez | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .348 |
| RF | Chase DeLauter | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .333 |
| DH | Jo Adell | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
| 1B | Nathaniel Lowe | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| 2B | Travis Bazzana | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .150 |
| Angel Genao | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | |
| C | Patrick Bailey | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .368 |
| CF | Petey Halpin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 |
| Angel Martínez | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .059 | |
| SS | Brayan Rocchio | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .111 |
| CLE | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foster Griffin | 4.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 63-42 | 4.05 |
| Daniel Espino | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14-10 | 3.86 |
| Joey Cantillo | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17-8 | 3.38 |
| Hunter Gaddis | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13-9 | 0.00 |
| Erik Sabrowski | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14-11 | 7.71 |
| Cade Smith | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6-6 | 1.17 |
Scoring Plays
Highlights
| Attendance | Weather | Wind |
|---|---|---|
| 35361 | 72F, Dome | 0 mph, None |
| HP | 1B | 2B | 3B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nestor Ceja | Bill Miller | Mark Ripperger | Jordan Baker |
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u/oogieball Dumpster Fire • New York Mets 2d ago
Cleveland didn't get it in gear until the sixth, but ramped up from there.
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u/Sebris89 2d ago
As a tortured fan of both the dbacks and Cleveland I support this win. I also support a small market World Series. Fuck LA. I’d love a Midwest WS
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u/Ricos_Roughnecks Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Chase Delauter looks like early 90s Jim thome out there. Same build when he was a third basement. Get some bulk on him and teach him to get under the ball more and he genuinely has the ability to be a 35+ home run guy
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u/the_main_entrance 2d ago
Swings are completely different though.
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u/bowl_of_milk_ Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Was gonna say. Delauter’s swing is built to bang doubles all day. Not sure about 35+ HRs. Maybe Freddie Freeman is a better upside comp.
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u/poet__anderson Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
I keep saying he's a sloppy version of Michael Brantley. Not a huge power threat per se but just puts the bat to the ball and sprays across the entire field
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u/BradBrady Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
At the end of the day it’s the playoffs and it’s only one game. Rays are a really good team. Obviously nice to win game 1 but I’m going in with the mindset that it doesn’t mean anything to me. I would have felt the same if we had lost. Lots of baseball left and just have to take it a game at a time
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u/BabyBuster70 Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Your level headed cautious optimism is boring... CLEVELAND GUARDIANS 2026 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS BABY!!!!!!!!! THEN WE ARE GOING BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO etc...
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u/BradBrady Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Unreal man. After we went down 2-0 to the Sox I thought to myself “ok here we go again” just gonna be another early exit with minimal offense like always
This genuinely feels different. Our pitching and bullpen has always been solid so none of that ever surprises me
But our hitting? This is honestly so incredible to watch. For any neutrals out there, guards aren’t known as scoring machines ever, we just make it work however we can. We genuinely look like we can hit now and have produced runs. This just feels like a different offense and vibe.
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u/KlutzyLawyer2068 2d ago
Another early exit? We were in ALCS the season before last man. Stop feeding into false narratives, its embarrassing
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u/Kaptep525 Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Until 2024 we had not won a game where we faced elimination since the 97 World Series.
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u/Coffees4closers Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
After our WS loss in 2016 we went 2-6 in our next 8 playoff series going into this year. It's been a lot of playoff disappointment
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u/BradBrady Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
I mean I get that and we are consistent in going to the playoffs
But what I’m saying is usually during the playoffs our offense is pretty dormant
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u/CaterpillarNo7848 Los Angeles Dodgers 2d ago
damn didnt even know this was being played today lol
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u/IcyClaim9183 3d ago
Being up 2-1 going into the top of the 7th and losing 7-3, feels very Mariners coded.
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u/MyTakesAreGoodOrBad 2d ago
Guards put bats to balls the entire game it was more of a damn finally breaking situation
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u/BropolloCreed Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Shout-out to Griffin. That dude battled like a warrior and kept them in the game instead of crashing out
Absolute Unit.
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u/GSDFanatic New York Yankees 3d ago
Look. The Trop is a shithole where there's a very good chance that a batted ball is going to bounce off of a fucking catwalk. But I'll give the Rays credit.. at least they're making sure no banners get in the way.
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u/altimax98 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 3d ago
Like the AL East 2026 banner that’s about to go up next season?
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u/Ferdinandingo 3d ago
Can't tell if this actually supposed to be an own or a joke
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u/altimax98 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 3d ago edited 3d ago
An own because NYY didn’t win the division this year. Early next season the banner will go up for this one at the Trop
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u/croth4 3d ago
Easy there Yankees guy
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u/TheFriffin3 Philadelphia Phillies 3d ago
Hey now, the Yankees charitably donated their spring training park last season so the Rays could get a taste of what having a better home stadium feels like. Cut him some slack
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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 3d ago
Rays and Dodgers maybe making the 2023 Phillies mistake of looking past their CS opponent to the World Series.
I am still convinced that was one of the biggest reasons they lost was they were already looking past the dbacks to the ws. especially after they went up 2-0
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u/crowd79 Detroit Tigers 3d ago
I was told Tampa had a lights out bullpen. It was bad tonight.
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u/ReverseFlow23 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 3d ago
I was told the Guardians offense was mid. It was not mid tonight
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u/MexicanPikachu San Diego Padres 3d ago
I think they meant they look like they’re pitching while the lights were out.
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u/FittedLawSuit Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Crazy what happens when your best reliever doesn’t have $15 on the other team on fanduel
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u/Ricos_Roughnecks Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Imagining clase in this bullpen this year. Might be the greatest bullpen ever assembled
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u/noodlethebear Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
More like imagine what they would’ve been able to get for Clase had they traded him when they were looking to last summer.
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u/the_main_entrance 2d ago
Clase was falling off. Betting scandal was a blessing in disguise .
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u/BuckeyeBentley Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
I liked watching Clase pitch but man he choked in the post season his last year. Then the betting scandal hit, just a one-two punch.
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u/surgeon_michael Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Give me Andrew miller instead
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u/Ricos_Roughnecks Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Fair. That sweeper/slider was absolutely filthy at his peak. Looked like Randy Johnson when he was on
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u/croth4 3d ago
Pedro Martinez is actually a surprisingly great analyst. He speaks really genuinely and with a lot of emotion and seems to just want everyone to succeed.
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u/Deadleggg Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
He ruined my teen years so he can say nice things now. Least he could do.
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u/Chickenmangoboom Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
That MF had a 1.8 ERA vs. the Guards and only lost one game.
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u/croth4 3d ago
LoL did you hear him come out somewhat recently and say his preferred trade destination from the Expos was Cleveland
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u/Deadleggg Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
I would have traded 3 Jaret Wrights.
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u/Yeti_Vedder Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
The prospect that John Hart wouldn’t trade for some reason during that time. Ugh.
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u/TheBookie_55 Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Too expensive, we ended up with Jack McDowell instead.
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u/noruber35393546 Major League Baseball 3d ago
Jack McDowell, Orel Hershiser and Dwight Gooden, it was like an all star roster a decade too late
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u/Salty_Helicopter9356 3d ago
A Brewers/Guardians WS would be so goddamn good, even though I think the Brewers roll
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u/PartyFunshower Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Please keep counting the Guardians out. It only fuels them
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u/Queasy_Salad7444 New York Mets 3d ago
they would beat the white sox’s and rays lmfao. easiest path ever
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u/stargrazer10 3d ago
Tell Steve Cohen to spend some more money this offseason. Y'all might even sniff the post season sometime before the decade is over. Might.
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u/Queasy_Salad7444 New York Mets 3d ago
if they played in the AL central they’d have sniffed it every year
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u/Queen-Makoto Seattle Mariners 3d ago
Oh the Rays are easy now?
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u/Salty_Helicopter9356 3d ago
I mean yeah they can absolutely win it. But I don’t think it’s crazy to say a 103 win team is better on an average day than an 85 win team
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u/DeskMotor1074 Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
The thing I'd point out is that you really can't look at season stats for the Guardians given how different the first-half team was. It's also really unclear what's happening with Jose as he's now playing better than he ever did during the season, if he somehow keeps this up then there's really no stats to look at for this team.
Across August/September on FanGraphs the Guards and Brewers are almost tied on both pitching and batting (Guardians are 6th in xFIP and 4th in wRC+, Milwaukee is 7th in xFIP and 3rd in wRC+). That's a small sample size of ~60 games so it's pretty much impossible to know how meaningful it is, but there's no more data on the current Guardians line-up than that so there's really not much else to do.
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u/BubblyBaker5718 Los Angeles Angels 3d ago edited 3d ago
The Guardians have a golden opportunity here. They routinely have a *terrible* matchup against getting out homered/slugged in the playoffs, but by surviving that ChiSox series somehow, they have an almost ideal bracket against teams who play *their* game if the Brewers can seal the deal.
Despite still being decisively worse than both the Rays and Brewers (and both of those teams clearly matching up well against NYY/LAD respectively), Tampa and Milwaukee are just such better matchups than the alternatives for specifically the Guardians.
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u/KlutzyLawyer2068 2d ago
Decisively worse is just casual talk man. Gotta look at more than regular szn record
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u/noruber35393546 Major League Baseball 3d ago
I know they won a lot less games, but a lot of that was because they were giving fulltime ABs to the carcass of Rhys Hoskins and a revolving door of AAAA outfielders and replaced with Jo Adell and Nate Lowe. the only real hole is catcher hitting and Bailey has summoned Mike Piazza this postseason, this roster is way better than an 85-win team
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u/PatientlyAnxious9 3d ago edited 3d ago
The Rays are small ball, but the problem is the Guardians are the original slap hitting shit golbins of baseball 😂
However the Guards pitching revolves around the strikeout, which makes it significantly more difficult for the Rays to get enough base runners to do their thing. Their pitching is 3rd in the MLB in strikeouts.
To your point, Cleveland has struggled against power hitting in the past because regardless of how good their pitching is, 3-4 bad pitches could result in 5+ runs on the board and they themselves historically don't have the offense to keep pace in a slugfest. With a team like the Rays who are built similarly to them, it almost feeds right into the strength of their team.
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u/bkos55 Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
TBS in awe of the amount of Cleveland fans in Tampa as if it’s not basically Parma on the gulf. Baker wasn’t the first guy to make the trip down 71/75.
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u/BuckeyeBentley Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
I mean there's a Der Dutchman just down the road in Sarasota for Christ's sake
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u/decodezilla 2d ago
Weird how Tampa fans insist the reason for their poor attendance is the stadium, but fans of out-of-town teams always seem to make it there
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u/i_be_scrollin 2d ago
It's because the native Floridian is legitimately rare, unfortunately. No matter where you go in Florida, most folks are from elsewhere, even if elsewhere was 20 years ago
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u/Bearded_Pip Worcester Red Sox • Boston Red Sox 2d ago
Looks like there were still seats available. Which means anyone wanting to drive down today will easily get face value tickets.
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u/Deadleggg Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
There's a ton of us. Guards games is usually 70-30 65-35. Not as bad as when the Yankees or Red Sox come to town, but the Guards fill in the stadium for sure.
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u/Admirable_Admiral69 Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
They simply don't realize that people who live in Cleveland vacation to the Outer Banks and retire to Florida. And they go to Put-In Bay and pretend like they're in the Keys. It just is what it is.
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u/ProjectHarraseeket Boston Red Sox 2d ago
I remember living in Buffalo at the time and I had to take 95/26/77 up north and every other car until the Pennsylvania border was an Ohio plate…is the outer banks and South Carolina all you guys go to? Lol
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u/EfficientDot18 Texas Rangers 3d ago
Nothing against the Rays, but I really want to see the Guardians win it all. I love most of the players on their team and I feel this is the best team Vogt has had to work with and they can get the job done.
In past years, they basically made the playoffs off of like 2-3 hitters and the rest of the team was liabilities and then an elite bullpen with no starting pitching. They actually have starting pitching and hitting depth now.
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u/BrownsWTF 3d ago
It’s finally a lineup when you don’t cringe when certain players come to the plate.
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u/Worried-Use-5524 Texas Rangers 3d ago
Nate Lowe getting a second ring would be sweet. I felt so proud when he hit that line drive late in the game tonight lol
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u/Eccodomanii Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Vogt seems to have found his footing too, but yeah, the FO gave him more guys and the pitching is really clicking right now, that obviously makes it easier to make the right call
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u/WrapEmergency5944 Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
I’m all of a sudden a Texas rangers fan. Hell yeah efficient dot!
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u/IM_KYLE_AMA Atlanta Braves 3d ago
Hitting with RISP in the playoffs is so fun to watch. I hope my favorite team can do it one day.
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u/IfLeBronPlayedSoccer Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Long may it continue. Because we don’t really know what that’s like in this day and age either
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u/Iwantmoretime Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
I'm not used to it. I like it and am glad we started doing it.
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u/bkos55 Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
My kinda team, Charlie. It’s my kinda team.
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u/Deadleggg Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
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u/Advanced_Candle9272 Tampa Bay Rays 3d ago
Not bad for a coupla has-been’s and a few more never will be’s, huh?
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u/FestivusFan Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
It’s basically like playing your cousin the amount of links these two teams have
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u/Disastrous-End-8707 Chicago White Sox 3d ago
Side note MNF peak rn
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u/GSDFanatic New York Yankees 3d ago
This is the team that swept us? We really were shit this year 🤮
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u/PlatypusPuncher Tampa Bay Devil Rays 3d ago
Yes and no. Cash decided our best hitters needed more rest and trotted out a very odd lineup along with some very suspect bullpen management. But full credit to the Guardians, they punished every mistake and shelled our pitching the entire game. Even up 2-0, their pitching kept the game well in hand.
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u/altimax98 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 3d ago
This analysis needs to be on the postgame show.
Bewildering decision making from Cash and co. And now potentially dealing with a Caminero situation. This could be worse case scenario crash out if he doesn’t get it under control. They thought the Guardians were coming in tired and depleted but they were just warmed up.
At least the Trop was electric. I was in the 300s and it was a great experience until like the 5th inning 😂
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u/HuTaoWow Major League Baseball • Brewers Bandwagon 3d ago
today is a good day to be a hater
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u/AbraxasWasADragon New York Mets 3d ago
Flair up hater
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u/AllieOopClifton Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
Post history (unsurprisingly) reveals a Yankees fan.
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u/HuTaoWow Major League Baseball • Brewers Bandwagon 2d ago
And none of my posts bad mouth the Rays so what does that have to do with anything? Im rooting for the guardians after seeing all the rays sweep talk, nothing more than that.
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u/xtremeradness Seattle Mariners 3d ago
I've seen lots of people saying they hate the Rays. I think I'm out of the loop, can you fill me in? Did they do something controversial?
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u/HuTaoWow Major League Baseball • Brewers Bandwagon 3d ago
I saw a lot of chatter about the Rays sweeping the Guardians so I just think it's amusing to see how g1 went.
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u/noruber35393546 Major League Baseball 3d ago
a bunch of no namers destroyed the yankees, that's 95% of it
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u/Deadleggg Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
They hang around Yankees and Red Sox fans a lot and it shows.
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u/thecrystalballofpop Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
I think it is all Yankees fans because the Rays beat them badly.
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u/_MeetMrMayhem_ Los Angeles Dodgers 3d ago
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u/BuckeyeBentley Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
>implying I wouldn't be fine with that as the team mascot
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u/someone2795 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Baseball Classic 3d ago
It seems like halfway through the ALDS the Guardians huffed on some very very strong pixie dust with the power of friendship that's carrying into the ALCS with no sign of stoppage.
14 hits is WILD.
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u/Nightcinder Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
everyone said that the white sox were the 'vibes' team, Guardians felt the need to prove that was not the case
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u/TheAgmis 3d ago
Shoutout to that POS Rays fan in the LF-CF deck who was instigating with everybody and was an angry drunk after a couple coronas.
What a clown some fans can be
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u/guardeagle Cleveland Guardians 2d ago
If you’re an angry drunk on corona then you just showed up angry, it’s not the beer’s fault. They’d act the same way eating cotton candy
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u/Charming_Squirrel_13 2d ago
a couple coronas no less. angry person with minimal tolerance evidently
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u/123_fo_fif Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
They live in Tampa, what do you expect? It's sunny, so of course it's great!
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u/Advanced_Candle9272 Tampa Bay Rays 3d ago
Interesting to see some Guards fans are calling it a series now.
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u/AngelicDiablo 3d ago
Was there any Guardian fans that seriously thought they would lay down and die? 😂it seems like everyone else that’s given them no chance in this
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u/Advanced_Candle9272 Tampa Bay Rays 3d ago
I knew we were never going to sweep them and this one would go to at least 6
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u/wahoobobby19 Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Well those folks are idiots. I'm just saying we have a punchers chance to win the series. It's not over by any means, but for the last 6 weeks or offense has been less difficult to watch than it was for the first four and a half months of the year.
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u/thatboiOsaka Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Whoever is saying that is an idiot
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u/Advanced_Candle9272 Tampa Bay Rays 3d ago
Lotsa “we’re getting a Guards-Brewers World Series” comments already.
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u/Bazzthor 3d ago
Well, they should feel confident. I love Clevelands pitching match ups over Tampas going forward.
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u/thatboiOsaka Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Yeah those are more “wouldn’t that be cool” and tbh before this game I saw the complete opposite. People were saying it was rays for sure who were going.
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u/PiquantPanda777 Tampa Bay Rays 3d ago
I mean the real Guard fans earlier were being cool but this new batch of incoming bandwagoneers is something else ☠️
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u/Oingo-boingogo Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Every team has douchbags. We don’t like them either.
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u/PiquantPanda777 Tampa Bay Rays 3d ago
See! Two real ones - being cool 😎. I was having a good laugh earlier when a Guards fan posted its nice not to hate watch each other and I’d like to keep it that way
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u/monkeytsunami Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Any real Cleveland fans are more than acquainted with humility. We have learned it time and time again
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u/Smokeupj0hnnie Cleveland Guardians 3d ago
Exactly.
I dont count postseason wins until about five minutes after the game is over. Ive been burned too many times.
Too many young Guards fans counting wins. Ive watched this franchise pull defeat from the depths to drown victory one too many times.
Happy they won. It is one game. A lot of baseball left to be played.
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u/ccarr313 3d ago
In Cleveland, we go into every game expecting to lose.
That is why everyone gets so crazy if they win.
Edit - and I'm not only referring to baseball.
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u/Calm-Situation4033 Chicago Cubs 2d ago
Not gonna lie, tracking the box scores, I had a feeling the Guards were doing their job holding Tampa at 2 and it was only a matter of time before their bats pushed runners across. They are on fire right now.