Braves Take the Series from Guardians

The Sunday Night Baseball curse continues. After shutting out the Atlanta Braves last night, Tanner Bibee and the Cleveland Guardians weren’t able to take the rubber match from Chris Sale.

It wasn’t for a lack of hits that the Guardians lost, something strikingly different from last season. Cleveland, in fact, had a hit in every inning that they faced Chris Sale. Chase DeLauter and José Ramírez pieced together some quality at bats, but could never cross home plate.

In the top of the first, CDL and José hit back-to-back one-out singles. Chase had a great jump on José’s hit, going from first to third, leaving second base open for José to steal. In the top of the third, a force out and a single had runners on the corners that were, again, left stranded. Rhys Hoskins was the final out for both innings, making up for it in the top of the sixth.

With what was looking like a shutout looming, Rhys Hoskins got Cleveland on the board with a solo home run to center.

Hopefully Rhys’ next home run will come in a situation with runners on.

Other than that, this was a rough one. Bibee finished the night having allowed 8 runs on 11 hits in 4.2 innings of work. He walked 1 and struck out 4. Kolby Allard pitched 3.0 innings, allowing 5 runs on 8 hits and 1 walk. He struck out 1 batter. Hedges pitched for one out.

Chase DeLauter went 2-for-2 with a walk and a double before being pinch hit for. Rhys Hoskins went 1-for-4 with a HR. Daniel Schneemann went 3-for-4, keeping the offense alive at the bottom of the line up with 2 doubles.

Atlanta always has Cleveland’s number for whatever reason. I will take solace in the fact that this series came early this year, giving the team plenty of time to rebound and move on.

The team will travel to St. Louis to face the Cardinals in a three game series. Tomorrow’s games starts at 7:45PM.