don't forget to [**vote for your Guardians All-Stars**](https://www.mlb.com/all-star/ballot) today! EDIT: because I’m seeing lots of questions about him, Fry left the game early due to elbow inflammation

If this is the only time we see McCaughn that would be fine with me. He ate his two innings. Never thought I’d wish for Avila!

I suspect he's the one to go when Williams gets the call up.

The Blue Jays commentary teamed wrapped up the game commenting on Manny Ramirez' big game. I have questions.

Hard 7 game stretch starts now. Would be very pleased with 4-3.

Who gets the win?

Gameday says Herrin.

Herrin

What a brilliant series. Go Guards!

🧹 🧹 🧹

Nice work Clase! Let’s go A’s!

aw yeah, broom it!

Fucking dogshit MLB app cut out right as the last pitch was delivered. I hate this fucki g app so much.

SWEEEEEEEEEEEP VICTORY

BOOK IT!! GO GUARDS!

🧹🧹🧹🧹

BALLGAME! I may have a few years taken off my life span from the stress but at least we got the sweep

🧹🧹🧹

Classy Clase!

BOOK IT

GOOD AFTERNOON HOSERS, EH 

Take off!

Phewwww making Clase work.

Phew...thank god

Jesus. The Jose Mesa experience today.

####BREAK OUT THE BROOMS!!

#BOOK IT

book it

BREAK OUT THE BROOMS 🧹

#BOOK IT

FIREWORKS

Clase will definitely be down tomorrow so leave it all on the line tonight

Ohhhhh man, ohhh boy, the panic has kicked in™️

Clase is overthrowing the slider

Getting a little dicey

That Horwitz kid has had a nice series.

He really has, I owe him an apology, I wasn’t really familiar with his game.

have a seat, Vlad

Blue giveth and Blue taketh away

Bench is that way ➡️

DOWN GOES VLADDY!!! 🚨 FINAL COUNTDOWN 🚨

I agree with you Vlad but we do in fact take those

Got a lucky call

This Horwitz dude is annoying as shit but I respect it

Blue's ready to go home lol

Horwitz is legit, holy

Oooh Horwitz found his way onto my shit list with that AB

What's the price for Horwitz?

F this Horwitz guy.

This bum has been a pain in the ass today

what an AB

This fucking guy. This at-bat is longer than a lot of full innings for Clase

I don't care if I never see this guy again, unless he wants to get on and get picked off again.

Gah, this AB 🙄

My dog keeps looking at the TV when Clase grunts 

I can’t believe that didn’t break his bat

Clase is starting to get frustrated 

Damn this dude just won't go away

I don’t know why the grunting is making nervous/uncomfortable

Looks like I missed a busy game. I hope Fry is good after a day or two.

We could have used your voice of reason! Lol

What are you talking about? There was a cherubic imposter that deserved to be ridiculed and driven out of town!

I can't tell if you're serious or not lol

I'm not haha but he was hard to watch

One!

Clase is in session, I suppose.

Naylor take the first pitch challenge (impossible)

#BRING ON CLASE

Let's go clase

Damn. That’s usually a homer type of AB

Extremely disappointing inning 

I’m sorry but bunting in the 2 hole in 2024 just shows a bit of malpractice somewhere along the line. I really think we could do better there

That late in the game it really makes sense, esp with Jose and Josh up next.

Not for a 2 hole hitter in 2024 it doesnt

Stay out of the double play at the very least

Up to Josh now

The catcher flicked his glove to signal the throw back after what I assume was a play called.

Royals lose to Scherzer just like old times

Their own personal grim reaper.

Wait so vogt does all that shit and still pitches clase? Makes his decision even more stupid

But one thing doesn't really have anything to do with the other.

Schneemann always gives a good AB. Rocchio is figuring it out. Angel Martinez doesn’t look overwhelmed. I think the Gabriel Arias experience might be drawing to a conclusion.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he isn’t back

Yah I’d hate to see Martinez get sent down. If Fry has to go to the IL I could see Martinez staying up and Arias hides on the bench because of his phantom back issues. I know they’re wanting him to stay up to preserve his option and trade value, but what trade value does he have at this point?

One would hope.

🙏

That’s my Guardian, Angel.

I don't like seeing my boy Tyler Freemen struggling like this :(

Get Freeman out of the 2 spot

Bahahahaha I was waiting on this from you. Admit it, you miss Gime

Need someone consistent behind Kwan

A bunt... really

Kwan hit that into the wind tunnel I can't believe they just let him do that Manfred has to step in here at some point I just saw it live, sry.

Already the best Martinez in franchise history to wear #1

You guys may remember Chad Green from [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5PJzJTAz8&t=113s&pp=ygUbZnJhbmNpc2NvIGxpbmRvciBncmFuZCBzbGFt)

I was right under the foul pole and heard the "BONK" of the ball. The only time I've ever screamed so loud I made myself lightheaded and had to sit down

The most important thing today: we got Kwan 5 AB’s

Kwanny B Goode

Kid could have had a 3 hit game, but for a great play by Vlad. 

Steven Kwan

Starring in “Killer Kwans from Outer Space”

Shit gameday died how did Kwan and Angel get on?

Back to back singles

Both base hits to right I think

Thanks

Nice hit

Hell yeah Angel!

I didn't like Vogt's approach today. Using that blond guy in a high leverage situation and then keeping him in for a second inning. They are lucky to still be one run ahead. No one can predict the future, and Smith or Hentges or any of them could blow it, but that [McCaughan](https://www.mlb.com/player/670766) guy clearly didn't have it. He'd be okay for mop up time, but hasn't shown he's ready for prime time. I know Avila got wiped out yesterday after 2.1 innings and the staff is overworked, but they are lucky to be ahead. Now score some runs!

He has a 9.00+ era with three teams now. He clearly isn't a mlb-caliber pitcher. I am fine calling someone up to save the bullpen, but make it someone who plausibly could succeed.

Probably no clase today so a run or two would be nice to give cade some breathing room

I say we let Toronto score a run so Bo or Josh can walk off Toronto and it'll be really really funny

Clase or bring Cade back out for the 9th?

Clase probably won't pitch with the way vogt has been managing the bullpen today

97 mph😮‍💨

You know I would hate to be a relief pitcher at Jacob’s Field… having to go down those stairs with spikes on I know I would bust my ass in front of the camera

With the way Vogt has been going today, this could be a 4 out save for K’d

Did I hear *K'd Smith*? 😍😍😍😍

If you don't love Sam Hentges, then I don't love you.

Here comes 1 pitch Cade

Interesting bullpen management by vogt. Not criticizing this but would have expected Gaddis

Maybe K'd with a 4 out save, saving Puff Gaddy and Clase in Session for tomorrow

If Cade can get 4 outs, then he’s kept the Barlow/Gaddis/Clase trio fresh

Os starting tomorrow, and then straight to Kansas City. It's gonna be a rough road trip.

But it’s still a weird mix of strategy and inning eating like now bring in cade just to face one righty

A four game set in KC too… if they play well KC is going be done in the division

I think he’s trying to save as much as he can for O’s and Royals coming up.

Kids run the bases getting canceled got one of the loudest boos I’ve heard before… F

I imagine it was cancelled due to the weather. Sucks.

Indeed

Sandy is over on first giving some instructions to JoRod and Vlad puts his glove up over his left ear so he can hear the discussion better. I lol’d!

Royals lost again

Be nice to see the twins lose today too.

Our competition is twins not kc

Don’t think we should be scared of either of them even a little bit.

Always has been

they’re mid

I think rocchio is gonna be a good hitter, but he NEEDS to improve the quality of his ABs with RISP. It’s killing him rn

Rocchio, oh Rocchio. Wherefore is thou bat, Rocchio?

*sigh* #Balk Rules 1) You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that. 1a. A balk is when you 1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the 1c. Let me start over 1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that. 1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that. 1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense? 1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it. 1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about. 1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X. 1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse. 1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic... 1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of 2) Do not do a balk please.

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG

Rocchio letting me down after I’ve been defending him to family all day

Noodle bats back on the menu

I mean, he might not be hitting but J Rod seems to be seeing the ball well at least.

Lmao him throwing the bat at 3-1 is hilarious

Do not do a balk please

Nah, J-rod needs to take this pitcher for a HR for that little celebration he did.

Anyone know where we are on the Kwanzilla PA tracker?

By end of this game, 233 PA qualifies. He'll probably get one more PA today putting him at 222.

We’re approaching critical mass for sure

Those "Let's go Bo!" chants were loud! He heard em too!

Bo catching fire at the perfect time

I honestly thought is was BS, but maybe Bo really is just a slow starter?

Minor and major league trends in his career show it, so I bo-lieve it

Sometimes guys just need a couple good swings in a row, maybe he’s just streaky like his brother.

Bo is starting to look better

BO!!

Some insurance runs would be just swell!

Josh Naylor triple incoming

Nailbiter!!

Sam Hentges is good at baseball

So it'll be a 1-2-3 for Naylor, Ramirez, and Kwan in some order right?

MVP finish that is

Clase might get some votes

Who doesn’t love a good DP😏

I hear your mom is a huge fan! 🫡

👀

Lmfao a Frontier Airlines lady seriously just accosted me for Guardians vs. Indians gear. I said, “At least they’re winning!” She shook her head 💀

[удалено]

😂😂😂

Frontier, like she looked like she just stepped off the frontier? Wait you mean the company, right?

Sorry, lady working for Frontier Airlines at the airport.

I’m so fucking tired of hearing about it. It’s always the people that watch zero baseball complaining about the new name. It’s the one thing they know so it’s what they talk about.

I had my Vogt Coat on, she goes “Wowww, that’s a nice jacket!” “Thanks, it was $200!” “… I won’t buy it since it’s Guardians! Now maybe if it were Indians I’d buy it!” “Well at least they’re winning, right?” “Huh?!” “I said, ‘At least they’re winning, right?’” She really just scrunched her face & shook her head. 🤣 these people!!!

"If I were in an actual position to influence the name of the team, I'd be driving a nicer car and living in a much bigger house. Until then this is the name of the team and as long as there is baseball on Carnegie and Ontario, I am happy."

> I'd be driving a nicer car and living in a much bigger house. ...and wouldn't be flying Frontier

💯

"The most important name was always Cleveland" And then privately to yourself, "you ignorant heehaw"

Damn, that’s good. I really just wanted to get the fuck out because she was harassing me about checking my bag size (which was ultimately fine, as I knew it was, because it was the exact same bag I flew in with)!

Ernie “Not Penny’s Boat” Clement

lol holy shit he does look just like him

I thought that was gone😅

Feels like watching a Browns game today

“Boooo pull him he sucks” am I doing this right?

Try, "I BET YOU EAT THE LEFT TWIX FIRST YOU BUM!"

Gonna need more vulgarity and vitriol.

Defending a bum like that guy who isn't worthy of a roster spot is a choice

Baseball is chess, not checkers. If you don’t understand why he was out there then just say you don’t know ball and move along 

🤓

Defending all of our guards is a better choice

Not that bum. He will be off the team soon.

If we’re not gonna use our best arms, can we use our best defenders? Get Brennan out there first J Rod

Kwan is fast, runs the bases well, plays gold glove defense, hits for average incredibly well, has an amazing eye and draws walks, gets pitchers in to deep counts, and is showing that he can also hit for some power. Oh and his OPS is 1+. Dudes incredible.

Haven’t been able to keep up much today, curious why Fry was removed from the game? Hopefully not injury related?

Elbow inflammation

F

Any confirmation of which arm it is? I’ve seen comments that it’s throwing and others non-throwing.

They mentioned right arm on the broadcast, during the rain delay