The Cleveland Guardians and the Los Angeles Angels faced off in game two of the three game series with Slade Cecconi getting the start for Cleveland.
Cecconi struggled immediately, throwing 26 pitches in the first inning alone. Slade has been having a rough start to his season with a 2-4 record in his 9 starts. While the starts are looking better and better as the season goes on, they still aren’t where the team, and bullpen, needs them to be. Cecconi went 4.0 innings of scoreless baseball, allowing
4 hits and walking a batter. He struck out 7 batters on 89 pitches.
Hunter Gaddis pitched early, throwing the fifth inning and starting the sixth. Gaddis went 1.1IP with one hit. They went to Tim Herrin to finish out the sixth. Herrin gave up a triple, which eventually accounted for the sole run Herrin allowed before retiring the side.
Angel Martínez went 2-for-3 on the night with a solo home run in the third inning to put the Guardians on the board first.
In the fifth, Patrick Bailey slapped a groundout to first. Daniel Schneemann had a great jump at third, scoring uncontested.
In the bottom of the seventh, Rhys Hoskins lead off the inning, pinch hitting for Daniel Schneemann. Rhys Hoskins, after a successful ABS challenge, drew a lead off walk. Vogt went to Petey Halpin to pinch run for Hoskins. Angel Martínez singled to third base. A throwing error by the third baseman allowed Petey to reach 3rd. David Fry came in to pinch hit for Patrick Bailey. In his at bat, Angel stole second, putting both runners in scoring position. Fry flied out for the first out of the inning, bringing Mr. RBI himself, Brayan Rocchio, up to bat. Rocchio hit a long sac fly to right, scoring Petey from third for his 22nd RBI on the season.
Erik Sabrowski pitched the eighth, walking two and striking out three. Franco Aleman got his second outing, and gave up a solo shot to bring the Angels within one run. Aleman recovered, getting the next two batters out, but with his pitch count climbing, Vogt went to Cade Smith for a four out save. Cade made a six pitch strike out to end the eighth. Cade made a quick out of Zach Neto in the top of the ninth with a two pitch flyout to right. Cade earned the save in tonight’s victory over the Angels.
The Angels score 2 runs on 8 hits with 1 error while the Guardians put up 3 runs on 4 hits with no errors.
The teams will face off for the last game of this series tomorrow afternoon with a 1:10 EDT first pitch.
