Well. Not great. It started off well though!
Slade pitched today. Gave up a bloop RBI liner to Acuna in the third. In the 4th, Manzardo absolutely obliterated a first pitch sinker 454 feet to center.
Kwan, in the fifth, hit a liner to left that was mishandled by Mike Yastrzemski, leading to the go-ahead run scoring.
It was basically all Braves from this point on. Vogt brought out Cecconi
for the 6th to face the top of the Braves’ order for the third time, and they took advantage of that miscue. Cecconi has an 8.39 ERA the third time through. After 3 runs had scored, Vogt brought in Guardians’ favorite Matt Festa, who gave up another 3 runs (only 2 credited to him). Pallette gave up another 2 runs in the 7th.
The Guardians fought back in the 8th, scoring 3 runs off a Hoskins RBI double (scoring DeLauter, who doubled to lead off the inning) and an Angel Martinez 2-RBI single (scoring Brito and Hoskins, who both hit their way on).
Allard came on for the 8th and gave up two more runs.
That’s all, see you tomorrow. It’s Messick vs. former White Sock Martin Perez.
