Hurston Waldrrep got his first ‘regular’ start as a member of the rotation of Atlanta Braves from 2025, and it looked a lot like his other two ‘irregular’ trips – one as a bulk man in a resumed game, one in a double header – even better. He dominated the anemic Cleveland attack as part of a 2-0 win. The Guardians have been on fire since they ended a loss of ten games at the beginning of July; This was their first shutout loss since the ninth game of that losing series back on July 5.
Early in the game, it didn’t seem entirely to cruise Waldrrep, because his Infield defense made many nice plays behind him. He had a 1/1 K/BB ratio by the first 12 batter people with whom he was confronted, until he finally tilted it in a positive direction in the fourth when he released his second walk, only threw two in a row to end the inning. It was really in that series that he picked it up, while he hit two more in the fifth and then two more to end the sixth, worked in the process around a Leadoff -Single. His last five strikeouts all came to the splitter; He only continued his first time before he fired a couple more in the middle innings – 14 his second time, and six to the four batters with whom he was confronted in the sixth. It is proof of the development of his other pitches that he was able to reserve the splitter and then give Hitters headache with it as soon as they had seen the other things.
This was a quiet game at the offensive end. De Braves scored two points one on a loading of a bases and one insurance run when Michael Harris II beat in the ninth in Pinch runner Eli White. The larger ‘distinction’ of the game was that the Braves made five outs in one way or another in the bases in this, but still won:
But hey, that didn’t matter, because Waldrrep was great, and a bull pen of Daybel Hernandez, Tyler Kinley and Raisel Iglesias wipe the floor with the remains of the outs of the Guardians. Seriously, the Guardians only had four baserunners in this: two walks from Waldrep to Kyle Manzardo and two hits by Steven Kwan. All those came up with Waldrep -Pitching, while the Bullpen van Atlanta went up nine, nine.
Guardians started Joey Cantillo at pretty uneven, while the Braves successfully used their “Ahahahaha Walksssss” approach and there was four, including one with the loading of the bases that came in a bizarre order where, in the middle of the Pa, was a delay because of someone who came in the field. It didn’t help Cantillo to get his exposure back, because he finally Nacho Alvarez Jr. Walked to drive in the first run of the game. Nick Allen then waved inexplicably at the first pitch (does he forget that he was Nick all?) To end the frame.
De Braves will be their spoiler-slash-thread-the-nedle-Geligerd-in-the-Wreckage-of-the-Weird-Weird-Submarine-Disaster-Van-a-Fward-Year-a-AGO-To-make-offs Quest tomorrow.
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