Game Recap: Guardians 0 – Padres 7

Getting the first shutout out of the way early.

The Cleveland Guardians fell to the still undefeated San Diego Padres in game two of the three game series.

• Logan T. Allen got his first start of the 2025 campaign. Allen finished the night 5.1IP, 7H, 4R, 5BB, and 1K. The first batter Allen faced walked and the second hit a bunt that popped high in the infield. José Ramírez called off Allen and flexed his high game IQ by letting the ball drop. José threw to SS Brayan Rocchio to get Tatis (the base running threat) out at second base. Manny Machado grounded into the first double play of the night to end the first.
• The Guardians defense had three double plays in four innings to help out their pitcher. In the bottom of the 2nd, Rocchio had a fantastic throw to first baseman Carlos Santana. Then again in the bottom of the 4th, Xander Bogaerts grounded into a 6-4-3 double play.
• Brayan Rocchio had his hand in a lot of defensive plays that kept Allen’s earned runs down. In the bottom of the third Tatis hit into a fielder’s choice and Rocchio had a perfect throw to catcher Bo Naylor to prevent the early run.
• Allen struggled to throw strikes all night. His first strikeout didn’t come until the bottom of the sixth inning. Scoring kicked off when Allen gave up a home run to Jackson Merrill. In the bottom of the 5th, Allen gave up a single to Jose Iglesias and then walked Brandon Lockridge. Both runners were advanced when Elias Díaz hit a sac bunt to first base. By the time Manny Machado came up to hit, the score was 0-3 with Luiz Arraez on first. Manny hit a single to Kwan and Arraez tried to go from first to third. Kwan flashed his gold glove and, with a perfect throw to José, was able to get Allen out of another inning.

• Allen came out for the bottom of the sixth. He struck out Bogaerts but walked the next two batters and was pulled in favor of Paul Sewald. Sewald gave up a single that allowed a run before getting out of the side.
• Joey Cantillo pitched the 7th and 8th innings. It was not great. Cantillo allowed two runs, walked two, and had two bases stolen.
• Guards defense started faltering majorly. Arias had two fielding errors, Bo had a throwing error and José dropped an infield fly. Three of these errors came in the 7th and 8th inning.
• Cantillo was able to settle down the infield defense, getting the last two groundouts to Santana himself. He finished the night with 2H, 3R (2ER), 2BB, and 1K.
• Guardians pitching staff combined to strikeout only three Padres batters.
• The offense was nothing spectacular itself. This was a very definitive shut out. Steven Kwan and Gabriel Arias were the only Cleveland batters to record hits. Kwan, Bo Naylor, and PH Jhonkensy Noel got on base via walks. José and Rocchio were hit by pitch, but otherwise the Guardians would not reach base.
• It is worth noting that the strikezone was unreliable and did contribute to a few questionable strikeouts.

• However much the umpire did not help, the lack of offense will not be showing up on the Umpire Scorecard. Starting pitcher Michael King struck out 11 Cleveland hitters. Some nights are just washes.

Final Score: CLE 0 – SD 7

The Padres remain undefeated. Ben Lively and Dylan Cease will be tomorrow’s starting pitchers for a 4:10PM EDT start.