Baseball is back, and even through the blackout issues and MLB app failure over the course of the first series, one thing that certainly didn’t fail was the Guardians’ offense as Cleveland’s bats scored 16 runs in three games in Kansas City.
Food poisoning may have kept Tanner Bibee from starting the season opener on Thursday, but it didn’t stop Guardians bats from getting to Royals ace Cole Ragans in the middle innings. Trailing 3-0 heading into the fourth inning, Cleveland scored four runs over the next three frames, three of which were tagged to Ragans, and it was Kyle Manzardo’s big blow off of lefty reliever Angel Zerpa that gave the Guards the lead.