{"id":671623,"date":"2026-04-09T12:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:39:20","slug":"guardians-news-and-notes-austin-hedges-is-a-great-catcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671623\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News and Notes &#8211; Austin Hedges is a Great Catcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Guardians took the series against the Royals yesterday in a definitive 10-2 victory. Nick has the recap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coveringthecorner.com\/cleveland-guardians-scores-standings\/67069\/guardians-win-behind-offensive-outburst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> if you weren\u2019t able to catch the hitting spree. Today is an off day for the team as they travel to Georgia to face the Atlanta Braves in a three game weekend series starting tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A couple of fun stats came out of yesterday\u2019s game. With Cleveland\u2019s victory, the Guardians continued a 13 year streak of beating the Royals at home in a rubber match. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tim_stebbins\/status\/2041953835648753855?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rhys Hoskins<\/a> became the first Cleveland first baseman to record three doubles in a game since September 2005. Angel Martinez put up some great velo hitting as a left in yesterday\u2019s game:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hedgey has proven in four games why he\u2019s worth the auto-renewed $4 million\/year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yesterday marked the anniversary of Carlos Baerga\u2019s historic inning:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Reynaldo L\u00f3pez and Jorge Solar were <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Freynaldo-lopez-jorge-soler-suspended\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspended for 7 games<\/a> after the brawl between the Angels and Braves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Pirates and Konner Griffin agree on a <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Fkonnor-griffin-contract-extension\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9-year contract<\/a>. It is being rumored that the extension is for $140 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pok\u00e9mon Go and MLB are <a href=\"https:\/\/pokemongo.com\/news\/mlb-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teaming up again<\/a>, bringing exclusive content to all MLB ball parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardians took the series against the Royals yesterday in a definitive 10-2 victory. Nick has the recap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671624,"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-671623","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\/116374795958398528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671623","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=671623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}