{"id":197037,"date":"2025-07-23T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/197037\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:31:10","slug":"orioles-3-guardians-6-are-we-having-fun-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/197037\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles 3 – Guardians 6: Are We Having Fun Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a fun win last night against the Orioles, the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> turned to Joey Cantillo in Game 2 of the 4 game series.<\/p>\n

Cantillo started off looking a little shaky. He got out of the first inning cleanly, but not without exceeding 20 pitches. Jos\u00e9 “Run Support” Ram\u00edrez provided Cantillo a little cushion to work with. Jos\u00e9 launched a home run in the bottom of the first to give the Guards a 1-0 lead and move him up to #3 in all-time franchise RBI and gave him his 700th xBH.<\/p>\n

In the bottom of the third the Guards tacked on another run, giving them a 2-0 lead. Angel Mart\u00ednez hit a 2-out single to left that fell between the third baseman and left fielder. Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez drew a walk as the crowd serenaded him with his eponymous chant. With runners on first and second, Kyle Manzardo hit a single to center to score Angel from second.<\/p>\n

Joey Cantillo made it through 4 without allowing a run, but faced issues in the 5th inning as his pitch count quickly approached, and surpassed, the 90 mark. The Orioles hit two singles and drew a walk to load the bases. Joey worked the next batter into a full count before the batter grounded into a double play, scoring one. <\/p>\n

A lineout to right retired the final hitter of the inning, keeping the damage to a minimum and the score 2-1, Guards. Cantillo ended his night 5IP, 2H, 1R\/ER, 4BB, 5K.<\/p>\n

Bottom of the fifth and the Guards created another great opportunity to score. Bo Naylor drew a lead off walk, Angel Mart\u00ednez hit a one-out double, and Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez was intentionally walked to load the bases. Kyle Manzardo hit a sac fly to score another run and give the Guards a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Erik Sabrowski came on in the top of the sixth. He threw more strikes than the ump called and a solo shot from Ramon Laureano brought the O’s back to within one run of the Guards. <\/p>\n

The death by a thousand cuts approach continued on in the bottom of the sixth. Daniel Schneemann drew a one-out walk then easily stole second base to put himself in scoring position. Brayan Rocchio notched a RBI single to center to put another run on the board.<\/p>\n

Bo Naylor showed some plate discipline, drawing a walk of his own. Angel Mart\u00ednez hit a two-out RBI single.<\/p>\n

A wild pitch gave the runners a free 90, and Jos\u00e9 drew a walk to load them up. Kyle Manzardo struck out, leaving the bases loaded.<\/p>\n

Sabrowski returned to pitch the top of the seventh, making two quick outs. One with the help of the gold glove left fielder, Steven Kwan. <\/p>\n

Stephen Vogt turned to Matt Festa. A walk, two singles, and a run later Festa was replaced by Cade Smith. Cade retired the side via pop out. <\/p>\n

Another run made it’s way to the scoreboard in the seventh. Nolan Jones drew a one-out walk followed by a Schneemann single. NoJo kicked into a higher gear and reached third, putting runners on the corners. Rocchio laid down a beautiful squeeze bunt to score NoJo for the second out. <\/p>\n

Cade Smith stayed on in the top of the eighth. After a mound visit from manager Stephen Vogt, Smith remained in and retired the side. Emmanuel Clase closed out the game. He allowed a single, but made quick work of the Baltimore batters to book another W for Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a fun win last night against the Orioles, the Cleveland Guardians turned to Joey Cantillo in Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2021,901,5,4882,2588,2587,181,7838,538,4760,125,173,4287],"class_list":{"0":"post-197037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-again","9":"tag-are","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians-scores-standings","12":"tag-corner","13":"tag-covering","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-fun","16":"tag-guardians","17":"tag-having","18":"tag-orioles","19":"tag-the","20":"tag-we"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114902563957793143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197037","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=197037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}