Guardians Sweep Rockies
· Yahoo Sports
The Cleveland Guardians closed out the three game series in Denver, Colorado. After yesterday’s win secured the series, the Guardians were hunting for their first series sweep since the Miami series going into the All Star Break.
Foster Griffin improved to 15-4 on the season with his gritty start. Griffin only went 5.0 innings, but threw over 40 pitches in the second inning. Despite the two earned runs in that lengthy second inning, he came back and locked it down for Cleveland. Griffin ended his night only allowing those two runs on five hits and three walks, he struck out four.
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Craig Yoho (1.1IP/2F/0R/1K), Tim Herrin (1.0IP/0H/0R/1K), and Matt Festa (0.2IP/0H/0R/2K) pitched the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings. Logan T. Allen was tapped to close the game, making quick work of the Colorado batters in the bottom of the ninth.
Guardians offense took to the altitude and had another high scoring game. Steven Kwan lead things off with a single and quickly scored with Chase DeLauter’s triple for the first run of the game.
Your browser does not support the video tag.Seven batters came up to bat in the first inning alone, giving Cleveland a quick 3-0 lead. In the top of the second, four more hits gave the Guards a 5-0 lead.
Your browser does not support the video tag.In the top of the fourth, already with a single and a triple, DeLauter hit his second triple of the game with one out.
Your browser does not support the video tag.Nathaniel Lowe’s two-out single scored CDL further extending the Cleveland lead. Angel Martínez isn’t the fastest sprinter in the league, but his persistent hustle mentality got him on base in the top of the eighth. Martínez struck out swinging on an eight pitch at bat, but the pitch was wild and Martínez easily made it to first. A stolen base and Austin Hedges single later, Martínez was now on third and scored easily on a sac fly from Brayan Rocchio.
Your browser does not support the video tag.Chase DeLauter finished the night having gone 3-for-4 with two runs, two RBI, and a walk, Jo Adell went 2-for-5 with two RBI, and Angel Martínez went 2-for-3 with a run, RBI, and a walk.
The Guardians are making up ground in the Wild Card chase with this series and can hopefully carry this momentum into Anaheim. They will face the Angels in a three game series starting tomorrow night. First pitch is at 9:38PM EDT with Parker Messick taking the mound for Cleveland.