By: Tyler Elzholz, Jaiden Basinger, and Jose Nazario
April 26, 2022
As of now, the Cleveland Guardians have a 7-9 record with their next game tonight on the road as they visit the Los Angeles Angels in game number two of a four-game series. First pitch is scheduled for 9:38.
Paul Dolan, the team’s owner, has made a lot of fans upset with the new name change and for overseeing one of the lowest payrolls in Major League Baseball. However, with the resigning of Jose Ramirez, Emmanuel Clase, and Myles Strong, fans are more optimistic about the future of this franchise.
It is documented that the Guardians (formerly known as the Indians) are the youngest team in baseball. With the youth, there have been and will continue to be ebbs and flows.
For example, the Guardians began the season losing two straight in Kansas City. Then, they went on a four-game winning streak with wins at Kansas City and at Cincinnati. During their first homestand, they were swept by the San Francisco Giants but regrouped and swept the AL Central favorite Chicago White Sox in a three-game series.
This past weekend, the Guardians were swept in the Bronx by the hated New York Yankees.
To make matters worse, last Saturday, rookie sensation and left fielder Steven Kwan got injured towards the end of the game as he ran into the left field wall while tracking down a fly ball. Some of the Yankees fans were cheering for his injury and making noise while he was down getting checked out by fellow teammates and trainers.
Fearless center fielder Myles Straw heard the chirping coming from the stands and then proceeded to climb the wall to get into the fans’ faces. This is when some expletives were exchanged.
After a while, things finally calmed down and play continued, but after a walk-off hit securing the Yankees’ win, tensions began to boil again as Yankees’ fans began throwing trash such as full water bottles, filled beer cans, and bottle caps at right fielder Oscar Mercado.
Some words being said to one another is one thing, but to throw trash with intent to hurt someone is ridiculous. Even the Yankees’ players walked over to tell their own fans to stop throwing trash.
This is just embarrassing for Yankees’ fans and team management. Is it any wonder why they have the most-hated fan base in all of sports?
With the Guardians being such a young team, it is nice to know that they have great relationships with one another and show great unity as they stand up for one another. They truly are a young, energetic, gritty, and connected team.
With this current 10-game road trip, the young Guardians will continue to show that they have what it takes to compete and prove the naysayers wrong. Stay up to date with your Cleveland Guardians here.
Roll Tribe, or should we say, Go Guards? Regardless, we have a professional baseball team in Cleveland. Same team, same colors, just a different name.
Let’s pack Progressive Field this Summer!
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