In one of their most impressive wins of the season, the Guardians responded to a thrilling and emotional win over the Yankees by surgically taking care of business against the Boston Red Sox in a morning game the next day.
Neither team’s offense was awake for a while as Kutter Crawford and Xzavion Curry had their way through 5 and 2/3rds and 5 innings, respectively. Curry hit his innings limit and had to be removed, but Tim Herrin was up to the task pitching two scoreless innings of his own.
In the meantime, the Guardians got to the Red Sox bullpen with their second straight game of a pinch-hit go-ahead home run, this time from Will Brennan:
You usually want the day of a marathon to be a little Chilly.