6x Emmy-Winning Host of "Guardians Live” on Bally Sports Great Lakes. PBP Voice of Cleveland State Basketball. Sports Anchor for WKYC - Channel 3 in Cleveland.
Akron native LeBron James says Northeast Ohio "holds a special place in my heart," yet leaves the Cavs - twice. West Coast native Kevin Love says he likes the Cavs and Cleveland and wants to stay here - and follows through by signing a multi-year extension. Cheers to Kevin Love.
Art Modell fired Paul Brown, lost money on an NFL team in Cleveland, never won a Super Bowl in Cleveland, then had to sell his team after a financial reset in Baltimore because he blew that sweetheart scenario too. In what world does that qualify for a “Hall of Fame?” 🤦♂️
Franmil Reyes is 5-for-5 tonight ... first 5-for-5 game for an
@Indians
player in over a year. He’s now batting .323 on the season with a .569 slugging.
🔥🔥🔥
The
@CleGuardians
in their last 19 games: 16-3
last 16 games: 14-2
last 9 games: 8-1
last 5 games: 5-0
They’re playing their best baseball heading towards October .. which is exactly how you want it to go 👍
Very saddened to learn of the passing of John Adams this morning. He was the ultimate fan and always in an upbeat mood. Many didn’t know that he was also a longtime season ticket hold of the Cleveland Force as well as the Tribe. RIP, John .. you’ll always be remembered 🙏
On May 29th, the
@CleGuardians
were 7.5 games out of first. Today, they’re tied for first with Minnesota. They made up over 7 games in less than a month. That’s not easy.
Guardians play the Yankees in October .. Costas and Darling.
Cavs play the Knicks in April .. Breen, Jackson and Van Gundy.
Every time Cleveland plays NY in the post-season, we get all NY announcers.
It would be nice to get at least one non-New York guy. A lot to ask, I know.
Thanks to all of you who supported our broadcasts this season on
@BallySportsCLE
.. we all had a blast covering this young, fun, and very talented
@CleGuardians
team. If you can make a living doing something you love .. you’ll never have to work a day in your life. That’s us.
You might not have realized it if you were tuned in, but Cal Quantrill had another unbelievable outing.
Cal set down the last 13 hitters he faced.
#OurCLE
The
@CleGuardians
have won 12 of their last 14 overall .. and took 12 of 19 from the White Sox in the season series. What they’ve shown this season - a young, talented team led by a Hall of Fame Manager is better than a highly-paid, older, talented team led by an average manager.
Trading Mike Clevinger for Cal Quantrill was a good deal for Cleveland. Add in a solid defensive catcher like Austin Hedges and it becomes better. Add in Owen Miller and Josh Naylor and it becomes mind-blowing.
And we don’t even know what Arias and Cantillo can become.
After batting .438 for the week, Steven Kwan has been named AL Player of the week. He currently has 158 hits .. the most for a Cleveland rookie since Kenny Lofton’s 164 in 1992.
I get Kevin Love isn’t the same player he was .. but on a team headed for the playoffs, you’re saying you’d rather have Wade, Green and/or Stevens as your rotational pieces instead of Love for the next 2-4 months? 🤔
Emmanuel Clase has tied the club record for most saves in a season with 46.
That is his 33rd consecutive save.
He set the heart of Twins order down 1-2-3.
#CyYoung
My colleague and friend for 25 years, Matt Loede, passed away today. He was one of the kindest human beings I’ve ever met. He was a true man of faith, that never wavered through his valiant battle with cancer. God bless Matt and his family. RIP 🙏
Who should be the starting second baseman on the A.L. All-Star team?
Jose Altuve has a 1.8 WAR, 38th overall in MLB, 2nd among A.L. 2nd basemen.
Andres Gimenez has a 2.1 WAR, 24th overall in MLB, tops among A.L. second basemen.
According to WAR, it should be Andres Gimenez.
Wow. After not calling interference on the Njoku play earlier .. and then calling interference on the ball to Schultz, I’m left shaking my head at the different standard for interference applied on those two plays.
The NFL needs to do something .. either let the asymptomatic players play .. or postpone the game. Letting this game go forward with the gross number Browns’ players unavailable because of positive tests is foolhardy. As it stands, this not an equitable contest on Saturday.
Backup QB Case Keenum tests positive for COVID-19, putting Nick Mullens in line to start Saturday for
#Browns
. Quick update with Baker Mayfield weighing in.
BREAKING: Quantrill just struck out Ohtani and has thrown six shutout innings.
(Our friends on the national broadcast appear to be uninterested in that part of the story tonight 🙃).
The
@Indians
on June 2: 29-30, 11.5 back of the Twins in Central.
Since then, they are 25-10, to improve to 54-40, 4 back in Central.
And they’ve won 10 of their last 12.
Quite a comeback for a team that had a number of key injuries .. and still doesn’t have Kluber and Cookie.
Corey Kluber. Trevor Bauer. Carlos Carrasco. Mike Clevinger.
We are the 1st team in Major League history to have 4 starting pitchers record 200 or more strikeouts in a single season.
#RallyTogether
Just went out for a run through the neighborhood .. plenty of people out walking .. and yes, all of us giving each other plenty of distance. I felt like Jabrill Peppers playing 25 yards off the line.
All of these big market teams that are mad the Blue Jays traded Donaldson to the Indians .. and yet not one of them put a claim in on Donaldson .. ostensibly because they didn’t want to pay the remaining $4 million on his contract.
I’m having trouble finding sympathy for them.
This is getting crazy .. Steven Kwan is now 5-for-5 and has reached base all six times he’s come to the plate today. He has now reached base 12 times in his first three Major League games played. 😱
Wow. Utterly terrible illegal blocking call on Jarvis Landry. Nothing illegal about it. As Chris Meyers just said “overofficiated.” That called effectively ended the Browns’ drive. That sort of obviously blown call can’t happen at the NFL level.
My son is in Laredo, TX for the Pony League World Series. His team, Ohio Prospects, is at the pool with a kid from the Dominican team. They are using their phones to translate while they talk to one another. Baseball brings people together from different cultures. Cool to see 👍
Shane Bieber leads the American League in ERA and wins .. he has the most strikeouts in
@MLB
.. learn fun facts like these and manh more on
@Indians
Live at 12:30p on SportsTime Ohio
@FOXSportsCLE
The
@Indians
are going to win their third consecutive Central Division title .. they have 2 MVP candidates and 2 Cy Young Award candidates that have been here for all of it .. I would think
@Lindor12BC
@MrLapara
@CKluber
or
@BauerOutage
would have been better than a statue pic.
Top AL batting averages since 7/14:
1. Aaron Judge .400
2. Vlad Guerrero Jr .368
3. Steven Kwan .354
4. Andres Gimenez .346
See 3 out of 4 of them tonight on
@BallySportsCLE
when the
@CleGuardians
take on the Blue Jays. Coverage begins at 6:30p!
Jose Ramirez has been having an MVP-type season. He may be playing his best baseball over his last two weeks. Over the past 13 games, his OPS is a blistering 1.377.
Shane Bieber now has 800 strikeouts in his career. It’s taken him 108 games to accomplish the feat. That’s the second-fastest in MLB history, to only Yu Darvish, who took 99 games to get 800 k’s.
Left fielder Steven Kwan and center fielder Myles Straw have both won the Fielding Bible Awards at their respective positions in MLB.
Kwan is also the only unanimous winner of a Fielding Bible Award this year.
Triston McKenzie goes six innings and strikes out 10 in his
@MLB
debut for the
@Indians
.. surrendering only 1 run and 1 walk and picking up the win.
The way the Tribe has developed pitchers in the past 10 years has been incredible.
50 years ago today, a 21-year-old John Adams showed up to Cleveland Stadium with a bass drum in hand for the very first time.
From 1973 to 2019, Adams only missed 37 home games across 47 seasons. Pay homage to a Cleveland legend.
The Indians generated an average rating of 6.61 on
@FOXSportsCLE
in 2020. That topped MLB and was the second-best norm for the Tribe on the network since 2007.
A look at that, plus the Indians' remarkably consistent TV numbers the last five years:
One of my clubhouse favorites. Great guy that has gotten every ounce out of his ability. Game 3 of the 2016 WS with Josh pitching in front of his ailing dad and giving the
@Indians
the start they needed was a special father-son moment .. when the spotlight was brightest.
It’s been a decade since
@jtomlin43
made his MLB debut.
In 2020, Josh reached 10 years of Major League Service, joining 25 other
#MLBPlayers
to accomplish the feat this past season. He continues to be a reliable arm as well as a leader for young pitchers. Congratulations, Josh!
I’ve talked about Eddie Rosario before and what a great fit he’d be in the
@indians
lineup and at Progressive Field.
This is a real nice signing for both Rosario and the Tribe.
The
@Indians
are 70-0 in the last 70 starts for
@CKluber
where they’ve given him 4 runs of support. It’s 5-0 Tribe in the 3rd .. as the Indians go for the sweep of the White Sox today.
Four
@CleGuardians
win Gold Gloves .. the most of any American League team since 2003. Steven Kwan, Myles Straw, Andres Gimenez and Shane Bieber. For those of us that got watch them every day, it’s no surprise. Congrats to each .. well-deserved 👍
ESPN revealed its Sunday Night Baseball lineup for the first half of 2020. Indians have 0 appearances. Here are the games that include at least one American League team (lot of variety here):
Red Sox-Yankees
Yankees-Astros
Astros-Red Sox
Yankees-Red Sox
Red Sox-Cubs
Cubs-Yankees
Letting a team from the south that plays in a dome come up to your house on a cold weather day and see them come back from a 10-0 deficit to take a 17-10 lead is discouraging. These are the types of games Cleveland has to dominate on their home field.
If you are tuned in to the Angels/Indians game tonight hoping for Tribe coverage, you will be severely disappointed.
Not to worry, we will be back with you for the next Tribe game this Tuesday at 6:30p on
@BallySportsCLE
.. and yes, we will indeed cover the
@Indians
😀
Pitchers are going to not like facing Steven Kwan. Forget about the average and OBP for a moment .. the amount of pitches he sees per at-bat can shorten an outing considerably.
With Myles Straw’s 27th stolen base on the season and third of the game .. the
@Indians
have now stolen 35 bases in a row. Last time they were caught? August 11th.