Big thanks to Ryan for making the site available during this unbelievable streak !

You win 15 of 16(?) and we can still scratch our head, "what is Vogt thinking"

So true !!!!!!

What a game ! Prayers for Fry !

Did he foul that pitch off into his face.

Yes he foul tipped a bunt right into his face.

Tarik Skubal said he texted injured Guardians DH David Fry after the game.

"I’ve already reached out to him. I’m sure his phone’s blowing up. I just want to make sure he’s all right. He seemed okay coming off the field, and hopefully it stays that way.

"I look forward to, hopefully tonight or tomorrow morning, getting a text from him and making sure he’s all good. There are things that are bigger than the game, and his health is more important than a baseball game."

Tonight marked the first time in MLB history a former Cy Young winner (Tarik Skubal) had an error, a wild pitch and a balk all in the same inning.

Did he foul that pitch off into his face.

I posted the condensed game of that hit. It's in gametime "Skubal vs Williams" link.

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No one would have guessed at this outcome on July 4; let alone on Labor Day.
I read a week or so ago that the "official" calculated chances for the Guardians to win the Division, on Labor Day or thereabouts was a precise
0.00% Which I guess is understandable if no one has ever rallied from the deficit the Gs did this season.

Pretty damned good manager.
Great bunch of young guys; everyone's a hero some day: JRod hitting cleanup? it works. Valera hitting second? it works.

Ended the season with a negative run differential; and 14 games over 500. I'd bet that's never been done before; speaking of betting: getting over the loss of two key pitchers and the inevitable emotional letdown their teammates must have felt adds to the unreality of the end result

Winning made possible by contributions from all sorts of unexpected sources:
JRod two run homer and game-winning run scored on Saturday
Valera hit a pair of homers in his 44 at bats
Noel hit 3 in his last 24 at bats [while striking out 12 times]
Naylor with an excellent September at the plate
Rocchio looking great at 2nd, hitting well after his return, and icing the cake on Sunday
Allard with some solid long outings to preserve the back of the pen
not to mention Jose with 3 steals on the 162nd game and a career high of 44 to cap off his 30+-30+-40+ season
And a lot of good defense; starting pitching; bullpen and steady at the helm Steven Vogt

ardians Prospective reposted
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While Stephen Vogt and his staff haven't announced their playoff roster yet, there are a couple of taxi squad guys that have lockers in the clubhouse right now: Chase DeLauter and Dom Nuñez.

Both are being considered for the 26-man playoff roster.

• Tigers strand team playoff-record 15 baserunners
The Tigers had a franchise postseason-record 15 men left on base -- going 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position -- in a 6-1 loss to the Guardians in Game 2

Stephen Vogt, on Chase DeLauter: "He can hit -- everywhere he's ever been, he's hit. We're looking for offense. We have been all year. And this gives us a really good opportunity to have an impact bat."

“I think I got the best view on (Brayan) Rocchio’s. It was a sweet, perfect arc to right field. That was close, that was huge. That guy’s throwing 100, you gotta be on time for one of those. And then Bo (Naylor), I mean, I don’t even know how he hits that out with one hand. But I mean, those are special swings for sure,” Kwan said.

“Unreal feeling. From going home this weekend to being on the taxi squad, to being active, to being in the lineup, just unreal emotions the last couple days. And then we come out here and get a win and get to keep playing ball, so on to tomorrow,” DeLauter said.

“Crazy stuff happens when we play the Guardians,” Hinch said. “They just scratch and claw and keep coming after you.”

"Our backs have been against the wall for three months. What's one more day?" Vogt was quoted as saying

When Mason Horodyski of News 5 Cleveland asked All-Star outfielder Steven Kwan about the seemingly impossible comeback, he credited one individual for taking the team where they needed to go. “It’s José Ramirez. It starts there. If he takes days off or calls it quits, I’m pretty sure we all follow," Kwan said. "He takes it all seriously, he’s our dog, works hard, does the early work, we all gotta follow suit. If he doesn’t do that, we don’t do that for sure."

Cleveland Guardians pitcher Slade Cecconi raised eyebrows July 4 after a loss to the Detroit Tigers, insisting that their postseason chances remained strong in the midst of a 10-game losing streak. "My confidence came from watching how everyone in the clubhouse showed up after each one of those losses," Cecconi recalled. "Whether we smoked a team or got smoked. Whether it was the eighth, ninth, 10th in a row we lost, we showed up with the same energy, intensity and focus. "That process that we committed to is what got us here. Not anything else." "What I do tomorrow is going to be determined by all the work I've put in through the months and months and days," Cecconi said.


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Well. No reason for me to be sad after today's loss. I got a full half season of playoff baseball after I counted them down and out prior to the all-star break. At least we got a good look see about what 2026 starting rotation and lineup might look like. Lot a reasons to feel good about 2026.

You know what though, the best team did not advance to Seattle, in my humble opinion.

See where Cecconi only lasted 2.1 innings. Gotta see what that was all about.

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Would'a. Could'a. Should'a. I mentioned before the Tiger series started, why not start Logan Allen or Slade Cecconi in game 1? We had a snowball's chance in hell of defeating Skubal, but you had our Aces in the hole in Williams and Bibee. Could have been a difference make. Vogt sure had a quick trigger finger on Cecconi.