{"id":658305,"date":"2026-04-02T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:30:26","slug":"guardians-gavin-williams-joins-kluber-sabathia-in-cleveland-baseball-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658305\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians&#8217; Gavin Williams joins Kluber, Sabathia in Cleveland baseball history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They call Gavin Williams the Big Rig.<\/p>\n<p>And on Wednesday in Los Angeles, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a>&#8216; right-handed pitcher had a big night.<\/p>\n<p>The Guards pulled out an impressive 4-1 win at the Dodgers to close out the series, and Williams was fantastic on the mound..<\/p>\n<p>His final line:<\/p>\n<p>7.0 innings2 hits0 runs3 walks10 strikeouts<\/p>\n<p>After a so-so first start of the season, Williams was nearly untouchable here.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, he made Cleveland baseball franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/news\/terrance-gore-son-honors-dad-perfect-first-pitch-royals-home-opener\/0d6f0212372e3fa358873a70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terrance Gore&#8217;s son honors dad with perfect first pitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams is the third Cleveland pitcher to strike out double-digit hitters in a game against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>The first was C.C. Sabathia. The second was Corey Kluber.<\/p>\n<p>The stat came from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlPawlowski\/status\/2039525781303373973\" rel=\"nofollow\">Guardians TV host Al Pawlowski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gavin Williams is the third Cleveland pitcher in club history to strike out 10+ Dodgers. Kluber and Sabathia also did it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Al Pawlowski (@AlPawlowski) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlPawlowski\/status\/2039525781303373973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Cleveland doesn&#8217;t play the Dodgers much since they&#8217;re in opposite leagues. And before the dawn of interleague play, they never faced off.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Williams is in the books with two of the best pitchers in franchise history. That&#8217;s great company for the Guardians&#8217; righty to keep.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They call Gavin Williams the Big Rig. And on Wednesday in Los Angeles, the Cleveland Guardians&#8216; right-handed pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,538,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-658305","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-clevelandguardians","12":"tag-guardians","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116333945367140535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658305","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=658305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}