Only one baseball play from me yesterday, but it was a winner.Dylan Cease remained in control of the Boston Red Sox, and that hot streak they've been having has now turned into a cold streak.
Still, the Red Sox will take suffering four straight losses after winning something around 80% of their games over the past couple of months.We will stay in the American League for today's game, but it will come in a Central Division battle.The Cleveland Guardians were one of the better teams in the division for a while, but they seem to have lost their luster.
They are 58-62 for the season and are 30-31 on the road.Maybe that's what the Guardians are: an average team.
They did make some moves at the deadline to bolster an already strong rotation.However, it still seems like this team is always in need of another bat or two to make the lineup more potent.
In fairness, they can hit homers and do hit for average, but it just never seems like they are one of the best offensive teams.It's too often that you see a team celebrating two pitches after an opponent's successful challenge, but that's what we got from the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday, (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images)Today, they send out one of those deadline deals to the mound in the form of Foster Griffin.He's had a special year after coming back from the Japanese league.
For the season, Griffin is 12-4 with a 3.31 ERA and a 1.11 WHIP.Additionally, he has 122 strikeouts for the season.
Those numbers are all Ace-level, or at least similar to a second starter.He wasn't great with the Guardians in his first start, giving up five earned runs in four innings on seven hits.
Those hits included two homers.That seems to be the main way to score off of Griffin — he's only allowed 54 runs this season, and at least 21 have come off of home runs.DETROIT, MICHIGAN - MAY 05: Framber Valdez #59 of the Detroit Tigers throws a pitch in the third inning of the game against the Boston Red Sox at Comerica Park on May 05, 2026 ...