CLEVELAND — The Guardians’ struggle to gain production out of the No. 2 hole in their lineup has been a recurring problem over the first two-plus months of the 2025 season. It’s something manager Stephen Vogt has acknowledged on multiple occasions before discussing the latest guy who got an opportunity to hit there.

Friday, that guy was David Fry , who went 2-for-3 and hit his first homer of the season out of the two-hole in the Guardians’ 4-2 loss to the Astros at Progressive Field. The 29-year-old also hit a single in the fourth inning and recorded a walk in the eighth inning.

“It was really nice,” Fry said of his sixth-inning home run, which went a Statcast-projected 361 feet over the right-field wall. “Obviously [I] wish we could have gotten a win with it, but fun to be back in t

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