Maybe the answer is just to wait for everything to work itself out — it usually is in baseball — but right now the Guardians look like a team with every conceivable weakness fully exposed. Even when they rallied together and almost completed an improbable comeback tonight, the many problems of the April 2023 Cleveland Guardians ended up costing them another game as they lost, 8-7, to set up a rubber match tomorrow if the weather cooperates.
Zach Plesac looked awful in the start, Amed Rosario hit into a double play and struck out almost every other time, Oscar Gonzalez looked overmatched at the plate, and Mike Zunino had a bad throw to second base on a stolen base attempt and let a crucial passed ball get by him in the bottom of the tenth.