{"id":686704,"date":"2026-04-30T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/686704\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:51:29","slug":"guardians-news-and-notes-back-to-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/686704\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News and Notes \u2013 Back to .500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">With yesterday\u2019s victory over the Tampa Bay Rays, the Cleveland Guardians are back to a .500 record and back to the top of the AL Central. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/12401\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gavin Williams;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Gavin Williams&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Williams<\/a> pitched a phenomenal game yesterday in the 3-1 victory on 4 days of rest. The recap can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coveringthecorner.com\/cleveland-guardians-scores-standings\/67950\/guardians-avoid-sweep\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Guardians are off today as the team travels out west to face off against the Oakland Athletics in a 3 game weekend series.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nick and Quincy are exploring the questions we\u2019ve all been asking; What\u2019s wrong with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coveringthecorner.com\/cleveland-guardians-analysis\/67939\/whats-wrong-with-steven-kwan-guardians-analysis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steven Kwan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Steven Kwan&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Steven Kwan<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coveringthecorner.com\/cleveland-guardians-analysis\/67753\/whats-wrong-with-chase-delauter-analysis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chase DeLauter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chase DeLauter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chase DeLauter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Guardians beat reporter, Tim Stebbins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/guardians-focused-on-long-term-as-they-win-final-april-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:put out a piece;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;put out a piece&quot;}\" class=\"link \">put out a piece<\/a> looking at where the team is at in regards to the offense after a month of baseball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Around the League:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Braves walked it off against the Tigers. The Tigers are now 1 game under .500 and 0.5 games back in the AL Central.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/marlins-win-first-series-at-dodger-stadium-since-2018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Marlins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Marlins&quot;}\" class=\"link \">The Marlins<\/a> took a series from the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/la-dodgers\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dodgers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Dodgers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With yesterday\u2019s victory over the Tampa Bay Rays, the Cleveland Guardians are back to a .500 record and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,867,539,135,51,2565,39,2078,538,541,4,667,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-686704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bo-naylor","10":"tag-cade-smith","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-guardians","13":"tag-clevelandguardians","14":"tag-dodgers","15":"tag-gavin-williams","16":"tag-guardians","17":"tag-matt-olson","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-progressive-field","20":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116493751651767899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686704","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=686704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}