Guardians News and Notes: First Complete Game Shutout Since 2019

Hey, there was another great Guardians’ win last night! This is fun. Tanner Bibee finally looks like his contract was a great investment again and Cleveland beat the White Sox 4-0.

Nick has your recap here. It was nice to see a game where the usual suspects - Jose, Kwan and and Manzardo - had an off-night and folks like David Fry, Austin Hedges, Angel Martinez and Jhonkensy Noel picked up the slack.

The story was Bibee’s gem, the first since Plesac did it in 2019. Bibee was demonstrably thrilled:

Travis Bazzana’s OTHER oblique is sore, so he may be done for the season. Hopefully, he can get those obliques right this offseason, because that can be tricky for a hitter to handle. Lane Thomas is talking about potentially foot surgery, and also mentioned he’d like to come back to Cleveland. If it’s on a $5 million prove-it deal, that’s fine, because there really aren’t a ton of decent outfielders out there. But, I suspect his time is done. We’ll always have the Skubal slam, Lane.

The crowd at Progressive Field looked pretty sparse last night. Part of me is pretty disappointed with Guardians’ fans. This team is somehow managing to stay competitive through the end of the season. They are winning more than they lose practically every season. They have the most lovable superstar we have ever seen in Cleveland. And, the weather was perfect on a Friday night. What’s up? The other part of me knows that the Dolans and co. have fumbled public relations, customer care, season ticket holder retention, and pretty much every other aspect related to making people committed to showing up at the ballpark, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I had a good experience as a season ticket holder this season and renewed for next season but I know that’s far from the norm for most season ticket holders with the Guardians. It’s something they really have to continue to work on, in my humble opinion.

Well, the Astros crushed Atlanta, the Rangers beat the haplessly slumping Mets, the Mariners are beating the Angels 1-0 as I write this and I am sure that will hold because it’s the Angels. But, hey, Detroit lost. Suddenly, the Guardians have six games left against the division leader who only has a 7.5 game lead agains them. To be clear… this would be the greatest collapse in MLB history. It’s still fun to dream for a second.

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