CLEVELAND, Ohio — In a season that appeared lost just weeks ago, the Guardians have engineered one of baseball’s most remarkable turnarounds – and it’s their pitching staff leading this improbable charge toward October.
Just how dominant have the Guardians’ starting pitchers been? The numbers almost seem fabricated.
“In the last 17 games, Cleveland starting pitching is 10-0 with a 1.33 ERA. They have allowed just 16 runs in the last 108 1/3 innings,” revealed Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com Guardians beat reporter on the Cleveland Baseball Talk Podcast . “It’s just been unreal the way the rotation has responded to being in a race.”
This isn’t just good pitching – it’s historically exceptional pitching arriving at precisely the moment when Cleveland needed it most.
What makes this run even