Well, that’s that. The Cleveland Guardians dropped the series finale to the Detroit Tigers, 8-2, and were swept by a team that was one of the worst in the league coming in. The Minnesota Twins are heating up at the same time, leaving Cleveland at least five games back in the AL Central race, a deficit that seems to grow larger by the second.
It’s hard to decide what’s worse between losing both games of a double header or losing by a combined score of 19-6 in the final two games, but I’m leaning towards the latter.
Today’s loss came, in part, because Shane Bieber was out there tossing meatball sliders over the heart of the plate and couldn’t seem to locate anything else, either.