N&N: Guardians’ Cody Morris makes 2023 debut

Cleveland Guardians news and notes for Wednesday, June 14, 2023

We’ll mention Cody in a minute, but first a lesson in sequencing:

Guardians, first five batters, 6/13/2023

1. Kwan out
2. Rosario walks
3. Ramirez out
4. Naylor singles, some idiot runs into the ball
5. Bell homers

1 walk, 1 single, 1 home run, 1 run.

Padres, first six batters, 6/13/2023

1. Tatis walks
2. Soto walks
3. Machado out
4. Bogaerts sac fly
5. Cronenworth singles
6. Sanchez homers

2 walks, 1 single, 1 home run, 4 runs.

It was Tuesday, so the Guardians lost. By that 3 run difference, 6-3.

Cody Morris

• Took over for Curry to begin the 7th inning, his first MLB appearance of 2023
• Retired 3 decent hitters (Soto, Machado, Bogaerts) in order on 13 pitches

Around baseball

• Athletics fans protested bad ownership by showing up to a game all at once. And 27,759 of them told the owner to sell the team. Which disrupted play! And the team won!
• In this Ohio diner, college students map out weird baseball fields.
• The Rangers have called up top prospect Owen White.
• The Brewers signed OF Raimel Tapia.
• The Lake County Captains ran out of storage space.

Did the Guardians outscore the tanking Athletics?

• Yes, but I’d rather win 2-1 than lose 6-3.