Guardians<\/a> manager Stephen Vogt gave Santana the day off on the final game of the Guardians\u2019 11-day, three-city, nine-game West Coast trip. Coupled with Monday\u2019s off day, it was a mini-All-Star break for the switch-hitting Santana.<\/p>\nOn Tuesday night, a revived Santana walked in the fourth inning, homered in the sixth and singled and scored in the eighth.<\/p>\n
He is a walking, talking, statistical wonder. <\/p>\n
Santana leads all active players with 1,312 walks.Among switch-hitters, his 1,312 walks rank seventh all-time, while his 333 homers rank eighth.In Cleveland franchise history, his 915 walks rank second, his 225 homers rank sixth, his 518 extra-base hits rank eighth and his 747 RBI rank 11th.Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez and Santana, who sit next to each other in the Guardians\u2019 clubhouse, rank first and second, respectively, in homers by switch-hitters with 268 and 225.Among Cleveland players who have homered at Progressive\/Jacobs Field, Ram\u00edrez is second with 126 and Santana is fourth with 113.<\/p>\n
There are a lot more numbers behind Santana\u2019s name, but the point is that as he pushes 40, he remains a viable player. It means that depending on how the Guardians play in the next three weeks or so, Santana could be traded to help another team try to make the postseason.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to imagine there would be a fourth tour in Cleveland for him. So we should probably enjoy this one while he\u2019s here.<\/p>\n
Breakfast and trivia<\/p>\n
With the summer heat and humidity descending on Cleveland, it\u2019s best to think cool and light this morning as we prepare for Wednesday night\u2019s game against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
Fresh fruit, high in water content, is a good start. It provides hydration and tastes good. Throw in some yogurt and granola and you\u2019ve found a way to beat the heat.<\/p>\n
Now here\u2019s a Guardians question for the earlier risers among us: Kyle Manzardo ranks second on the Guardians with 12 homers. How many have come on the first pitch? Answer below. <\/p>\n
Next<\/p>\n
Wednesday: RHP Gavin Williams (5-3, 3.58) vs. RHP Max Scherzer (0-0, 6.00) at 6:40 p.m. CLEGuardians.TV, WTAM 1100, WMMS 100.7 FM, WARF and the Guardians radio network will carry the game.<\/p>\n
Thursday: RHP Tanner Bibee (4-7, 3.86) vs. RHP Kevin Gausman (5-6, 4.61) at 1:10 p.m. CLEGuardians.TV, WTAM 1100, WMMS 100.7 FM, WARF and the Guardians radio network will carry the game.<\/p>\n
Friday: The Cardinals visit for a three-game series. RHP Luis Ortiz (4-8, 4.30) will open the series for the Guardians, while RHP Sonny Gray (7-2, 3.72) starts for the Cardinals. Gametime is 7:10 p.m. Apple TV+ will televise the game, while WTAM 1100, WMMS 100.7 FM, WARF and the Guardians radio network will broadcast it.<\/p>\n
Saturday: RHP Slade Cecconi (3-3, 3.38) vs. RHP Miles Mikolas (4-5, 4.31) at 4:10 p.m. CLEGuardians.TV, WTAM 1100, WMMS 100.7 FM, WARF and the Guardians radio network will carry the game.<\/p>\n
Sunday: LHP Logan Allen (5-5, 4.25) vs. LHP Matthew Liberatore (5-6, 3.96) at 12:05 p.m. Roku will televise the game, while WTAM 1100, WMMS 100.7 FM, WARF and the Guardians radio network will broadcast it.<\/p>\n
Trivia answer<\/p>\n
Five of Manzardo\u2019s 12 homers have come on the first pitch. No. 5 came Tuesday night in the ninth inning in a 10-6 loss to Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 Carlos Santana likes to play every day. Still, it\u2019s nice to get a day off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,3188,2565,538,4,26714],"class_list":{"0":"post-130159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-guardians","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians-2025","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-guardians","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114744534368795454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}