{"id":609745,"date":"2026-03-06T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/609745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:13:14","slug":"guardians-news-and-notes-smith-back-and-dominant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/609745\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News and Notes: Smith Back and Dominant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yesterday, the Guardians crushed the White Sox 12-3 and Cade Smith made a great 2026 Cactus League debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith threw 9 pitches in a 1-2-3 fifth inning in his return from neck soreness. Tanner Bibee threw four scoreless, Erik Sabrowski struck out two in a scoreless frame, and Tim Herrin struck out three&#8230; but also allowed two hits, a walk and a run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the offensive side, CJ Kayfus hit a two-run homer, so did Milan Tolentino and Carter Kieboom hit a three-run bomb. Jaison Chourio had a triple, Angel Martinez had two BABIP hits including a double, Brayan Rocchio, Angel Genao, George Valera and Kody Huff added doubles. Oh, and Autin Hedges had two hits, so you know how bad a night it was for Rangers\u2019 pitching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Australia won again in the World Baseball Classic, beating Czechia 5-1, but Travis Bazzana went 0-4 with a walk and a strikeout. He did put on a defensive clinic at second base, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2029784658792100128<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stephen Vogt had some comments about Chase DeLauter. I\u2019ll let you decide what they mean. Sounds like they are trying to build him up for Opening Day but it\u2019s obviously not ideal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2029677196969742430<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Guardians return to afternoon baseball today at 3:05PM ET and to TV vs. The Angels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, the Guardians crushed the White Sox 12-3 and Cade Smith made a great 2026 Cactus League debut.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,38552,2565,538,4,38553],"class_list":{"0":"post-609745","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-news","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-guardians","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-morning-news-and-notes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116182411308271346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609745","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=609745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}