The Guardians can\u2019t hit for average, and can\u2019t hit for power. They do draw walks, but opponents have made the extremely obvious adjustment to that: Just throw strikes, since they can\u2019t hit for average or power.<\/p>\n
9 more innings. Only 2 more runs. This offense is painful to watch, and they still think Grant Fink is the man for the job.<\/p>\n
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Up next is Carlos Rodon<\/a>, so pencil in a bunch more 0\u2019s on your scorecard. Parker Messick<\/a> needs to pitch a perfect game to force extra innings.<\/p>\n Around baseball<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Braden Montgomery made his MLB debut, and hit a walkoff home run<\/a>. 2nd place is calling the Guardians\u2019 name.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Meisel wrote a long, good article about knee-down catching<\/a> leading to more baseballs to the, um, higher-than-knee. Hot Take of the Day<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Austin Hedges<\/a> is better than Patrick Bailey<\/a> at everything. Framing. Game calling. Blocking. Catching the ball. Even hitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardians can\u2019t hit for average, and can\u2019t hit for power. They do draw walks, but opponents have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[56852,49,48,17947,491,262384,218680,43328,462,50658,76910,82,489],"class_list":["post-727438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-austin-hedges","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-grant-fink","tag-joe-camporeale-imagn","tag-mandatory-credit","tag-mlb","tag-parker-messick","tag-patrick-bailey","tag-sports","tag-tarik-skubal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022\u00a0Not wanting to miss a game against CLE\u2019s offense, Tarik Skubal<\/a> likely to return<\/a> in the coming days.<\/p>\n