Cleveland Guardians Achieve Wacky Feat on Monday, Accomplishing Something That Hasn't Been Done in at Least 100 Years
The Cleveland Guardians rolled the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night, winning 11-0.
While the box score shows a run-of-the-mill blowout, if you dig deeper, you'll see that the Guardians actually made some very unique - albeit random - baseball history.
Per @OptaSTATS on Twitter:
The @CleGuardians are the only MLB team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to go 9-up, 9-down without getting the ball out of the infield through 3 innings but then score a run in every inning after that.
Yes, that's random history, but that's the area we excel in here at Fastball and FanNation.
After going scoreless for the first three innings, Cleveland scored two in the fourth, one in the fifth, fourth in the sixth, two in the seventh, one in the eighth and one in the ninth.
Four Guardians players had multi-hit efforts including Jose Ramirez, Ahmed Rosario, Josh Naylor and Myles Straw, who each had two. Rosario, Andres Gimenez and Naylor each hit home runs in the victory as well.
The Guardians win, coupled with a Twins loss, helped them move to 1.5 games back in the American League Central. Cleveland is now 46-48 on the year.
The Pirates continued their free-fall as well. One of the best stories of baseball's first two months, they've now lost four straight and eight of ten to fall to 41-53. They are 11.0 games back in the National League Central and are tied for last place with the St. Louis Cardinals.
The two teams will play again on Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. ET.
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