Arizona Diamondbacks 5, Cleveland Guardians 10
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Next time, it counts. Because this time, it sure didn’t.
Michael Soroka was slapped around, allowing as many hits as outs recorded – ten of each. The D-backs allowed the Guardians to run the tally of unanswered runs, between yesterday and today, to thirteen before finally getting on the board at Chase Field for the first time in 2026. Soroka got through eighty pitches, but was yanked in multiple innings. His final line of ten hits and two walks, across 3.1 innings, with six earned runs and five strikeouts, didn’t inspire confidence in his final outing before the regular season. As noted in the GDT, he did get BABIP’d, eight of the ten hits off Soroka had exit velocities over 100 mph.
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The rest of the pitching was a mixed bag. Spencer Giesting had 1.2 scoreless innings, and Andrew Hoffmann worked a scoreless seventh, while Juan Morillo allowed a run in the eighth. Unlike yesterday, at least Arizona scored here, getting four runs in the fourth. Pavin Smith and James McCann each had a run-scoring single, then Jordan Lawlar drove in a pair with a single of his own. McCann and Tim Tawa each had two hits, but the defeat left Arizona with a final record for the 2025 preseason of 15-15 with one game ending tied. They now hit the road for Los Angeles, where Zac Gallen will get the regular season under way on Thursday night against the Dodgers.