The Cleveland Guardians misplaced Monday’s recreation towards the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-1.
They scored simply three runs on Sunday, too.
Today, that’s concerning the best-case state of affairs for Cleveland: not having the injured Josh Naylor has made an already unhealthy offense even worse.
This week, when Jose Ramirez is compelled to serve his suspension for the weekend’s brawl towards the Chicago White Sox, the lineup has “unwatchable” potential.
The most recent sufferer of the state of affairs was rookie pitcher Gavin Williams.
Williams, who made his MLB debut this season, has principally been wonderful for the Guards, with a 2.90 ERA in 49.2 innings.
On Monday, he was masterful towards the Jays, with seven scoreless innings, one hit, one stroll, and 12 (!) strikeouts.
Sadly, he did not get the win as a result of his offense didn’t present any assist in any way.
“In MLB historical past, there have been 73 video games pitched assembly the under stat line: 12+ Okay, 0 or 1 H, 0 or 1 BB. Gavin Williams (8/7/23 vs Blue Jays) and Randy Johnson (9/16/1992 vs Angels) are the one 2 pitchers whose group misplaced after tossing such a stat line,” Cleveland Stats tweeted.
In MLB historical past, there have been 73 video games pitched assembly the under stat line:
12+ Okay
0 or 1 H
0 or 1 BBGavin Williams (8/7/23 vs Blue Jays) and Randy Johnson (9/16/1992 vs Angels) are the one 2 pitchers whose group misplaced after tossing such a stat line.pic.twitter.com/wU6zPXXZr6
— Cleveland Stats (@CLE_STATS) August 8, 2023
He clearly didn’t lose the sport himself, since he allowed no runs, however his group scored only one run and it was after he left.
The Blue Jays scored two within the eighth and one within the ninth to take the victory.
Cleveland has fallen 5.5 video games behind the Minnesota Twins after dropping eight of their final 10 video games.
It was their choice, although: opting to promote on the deadline and buying and selling Aaron Civale and Josh Bell.
They nonetheless have an opportunity to get again into issues with a optimistic streak, however they should really rating runs to make that occur.
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