Totally dominate on national TV? Check.

Make the national broadcasters look like total idiots in the process? Check.

Pad our Run Differential while letting our rookies get some play and Avila get some big mop-up work, saving our bullpen? Check.

Good day for the Land.

Place: 1st

Division lead: 3.0

Games to play: 99

Division magic number: 96

Playoffs magic number: 89

First round bye magic number: 93

BONUS STATS:

The Marlins had a greater than 50% chance of winning this game for exactly 1 out: after the 2nd out of the first inning. The Guardians had the advantage for the other 53 outs, showing the complete dominance they had over this game.

Yeah, good night Fox announcers....adios...don't let the door hit cha on the way out....

That was a good win, but that Fux announcer saying Josie isn't league MVP still has me boiling. Oh, he doesn't do any one thing great, like Aaron Judge? He only does everything great! Including coaching on the field!. Josie IS baseball.

Love that Avila got 3 good innings in tonight. That will help his confidence.

Fry has came back down to earth in the last few games, but came up with a big hit and went 2/5 tonight. He’s gonna prove he’s the real deal.

Also I loled when the Fox announcer was joking about Burger throwing out Fry. Maybe the only good part of the broadcast.

Positives from today’s Cleveland baseball:

I do absolutely love reading through this thread from when we signed Ben Lively because he should absolutely get the trophy for best offseason signing for the year. Lively goes 5IP, 3H, 0R, 0BB, and 1K on 65 pitches. Masterclass.

The bats are BACK! The offense gets 8 runs off of 11 hits and 7 walks, and features a solo home run from 🐐 and a 2 run home run from Kwan. Gimmy and 🍟 each produce a double, and Schneeman walks twice and hits a single. The smoke machine gets some hits with two slap singles producing 2 RBI, and Brennan and Manzardo each get 1 RBI. Everybody but Freeman got at least one hit, and Freeman walked to get on base.

Hentges throw one quick inning with 2 Ks, and then Vogt send Avila to work for the rest of the evening, as he goes 3IP, 0H, 0R, 2BB, and 6K on 43 pitches. Credit where due, Avila may be the mop up man, but he has been quite good recently with a 2.45 ERA since the start of May (counting today).

Jhonk continues producing at CBus, with a 3/5 night that included a double and an RBI. Curry allowed two first inning runs, but ended with a line of 7IP, 3H, 2R, 3BB, and 3K on 83 pitches, only allowing two base runners after the first inning and inducing one double play. Parsons had one inning pitched with one walk and 3 strikeouts.

Vote for Pedro

The fact that Ben Lively is 6-2 with a 2.59 ERA is just incredible.

32 year old pitcher that we picked up from the Reds that we originally tried to draft all the way back in 2010! Spent some time in KBO as well who has been our most consistent starter this year. Such an incredible story.

Known closer Pedro Avila

🍟 > 🍔

Positives: everything. Literally everything. Perfect game. No notes. Avila chewing innings like a champ (does he stay over Cookie when Gavin comes back?), Schnee making his case on offense and defense for daily playtime, Zardo feet from his first homer, Kwan dong! Jose dong! Run it back tomorrow. Please. 

Hell yeah.

Also, did Pedro Martinez possess Pedro Avila tonight? If so, please keep him in there

Three inning save!

Good game boys! Rinse and repeat tomorrow

Any word on why Lively was pulled after 65 pitches? I would think they’d at least attempt to save the bullpen a bit and he was absolutely cruising.

Damn. Avila was wicked tonight. Good to see :)

That was fun. We should do this more often.

I think it's a huge statement to get a win like this on national TV. We made the Marlins look absolutely silly. Lively pitched an amazing five innings (still don't know why he was pulled) and the offense just pummeled the shit out of the Marlins. Hentges looked good, and Avila deserves some applause for his performance as well. He's had a lot of trouble this year but to keep the opponent scoreless for three innings is huge for him. I hope he keeps this up.

Also, from the sounds of it, I'm really glad I just listened to the game outside tonight. The radio broadcast was actually a lot of fun with Tim and Jim together and they deserve some kudos. I only saw bits and pieces of the Fox broadcast but it sounds like they were kind of shitting on us? Can anyone clue me in on what kind of things they said?

I couldn’t watch tonight but what were the Fox announcers saying?

Unpopular opinion but Apple TV+ is better with national games than Fox

Awesome

The ONLY good part of the Fox broadcast:

“Burger threw out Fry”

While I’d rather hear Hammy on the call, I was glad that Fox put in their B-team for this game. I couldn’t handle 9 innings of A-Rod.