Gavin Williams Dominates Royals In Historic Start

Gavin Williams throws 7.0 scoreless innings as the Cleveland Guardians take the first game of the series from the Kansas City Royals.

Gavin Williams is ranked the Cleveland Guardians' number-one ranked prospect for a reason. He's demonstrated unreal command of the plate and a blistering fastball in the minor leagues which promised to transfer nicely to MLB.

Williams faced a little adversity in his Major League debut giving up four runs to the Oakland Athletics in one inning. However, his second career start gave fans a glimpse at what is to come from the future ace.

Gavin started against the Kansas City Royals to open up Cleveland's first series with the AL Central rival this season. He pitched seven scoreless innings, only allowed one hit, hit one batter, and struck out six.

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This makes Williams just one of two Cleveland pitched to throw seven innings only allowing one hit through their first two Big League starts. The other was Addie Joss who did it 121 years ago in his MLB debut.

The most impressive part about this start was easily Williams' command. He threw 92 pitches in those seven innings and 70 of them were strikes. 76 percent of Gavin's pitches were strikes!

He also had 36 swings and misses which highlights just how fooled Williams had KC hitters.

Williams attributed his dominant start to being more comfortable and knowing what to expect out of a Big League start. Gavin is only going to get better as he finds his groove in the Majors which should worry every other team in the league. 

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