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Welcome to Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland
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everyone, welcome to Guardians Weekly.
Jim Rosenhouse along with you from Fenway Park

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in Boston, where the Guardians are
opening up a two city road swing,

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three here in Boston and then three
in New York at the start of next

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week. Good show lined up for
you today is coming up in a little

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bit. We'll hear from Guardians first
baseman dh Josh Bell. Also two rookie

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pitchers who won in their major league
debuts on the last homestand both Logan Allen

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and Tanner Bibi were outstanding in their
major league debuts, and we will hear

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from both of them about how it
went, what was going through their minds

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and maybe their stomachs as say,
we're taking the mound for the first time

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at the major league level with great
results. And we'll also hear from Guardian

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Senior Vice President Bob Di Biasio about
the newest inductees coming up later this summer

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into the Cleveland Baseball Hall of Fame, Manny Ramirez and Dale Mitchell, that's

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all coming up shortly, but first
to look back at the weekend review,

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and we take you back to last
Sunday, Logan Allen on the mound for

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his major league debut against the Marlins, and man that he looked like he

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belonged from the very first pitch.
Here we go, the twenty four year

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old lefty Logan Allen with his first
major league pitch, and it's a fastball

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strike on the outside corner. And
we are underway in downtown Cleveland forty six

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degrees at game time, and Allan
was ready to deliver pitch number two,

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but the home plate umpire Lance Barksdale
said, hey, toss that ball out

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and have that as a keepsake.
The payoff pitch swing and I missed strike

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three, and there it is the
first major league strike out on the first

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hitter that Logan Allen faces in the
big leagues. In the top half of

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the third inning, the Marlins took
a lead with a solo home run from

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John Birdie. But in the bottom
of the inning, the Guardians answered,

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starting with Jose Ramirez. The one
two is driven high and deep left center

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field run Jose Ramirez, and just
like that, the Guardians have turned it

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around and moved in front two to
one. Number three on the season four

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Ramirez, and the next batter was
Josh Bell. Here's the two two pitch

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swung on and there's a high fly
ball deep left field home run Josh Bell.

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Back to back and the Guardians lead
at three to one, Bell with

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his second on the season. In
the fifth, I'm ed Rosario doubled and

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then Bell stayed hot at the plate. Here's the O two swung on line

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to third, fairball down the line. It goes scoring easily as Rosario Bell

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is on his way to second.
It's dug out in that corner and left

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field by day La Cruz, but
Bell is in standing up with an RBI

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double and the Guardians take up four
to one lead. And on the mount,

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Logan Allen continued his memorable debut outing
Logan t Allen finishing up what's been

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a tremendous effort today in his major
league debut. The one two call,

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strike three on the outside corner.
If that's it, What a way to

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finish with his eighth strikeout and he
heads back to the dugout with the Guardians

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in front four to one, heading
to the bottom half of the sixth inning.

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In the seventh, the Guardians added
two more runs on a sack fly

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by Jose Ramirez and an RBI ground
out from Will Brennan, making it six

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to one Cleveland. But in the
eighth, Miami cut into that lead with

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a three run home run off the
bat of Abbasail Garcia, and the lead

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was down to two at six to
four Cleveland. But in the bottom of

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the eighth, the Guardians looking to
add a little insurance, and sure enough,

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Jose Ramirez got it done. The
pitch to him, he swings and

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drives it up the alley rights center
field and it one hops the wall,

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speeding toward third, being waved around
as Rosario. Here he comes home,

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the pro not in time. Safe
at home is a'med Rosario into third.

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This Ramirez and the Guardians now lead
it seven to four. In the ninth,

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Emmanuel Closse was on trying to close
it out. Here's his one two

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pitch swung on brownball third base.
Ramirez has it fires first in time and

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the Guardians are back in the win
column. On a day for Logan Allen

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his first major league win, and
the Big Boys offensively got it going and

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the Guardians, winning by a final
score of seven to four, so a

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nice win to finish up the Marlins
series. Miami did take two out of

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three, and the same thing happened
with another rebuilding ball club from the National

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League, as the Rockies came to
town Monday. They handed the Guardians a

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six nothing defeat and backed it up
on Tuesday with a five to one win.

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So on Wednesday, again the Guardians
trying to at least salvage the finale

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of a series, and they were
going to try and do it again with

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a young pitcher making his major league
debut. This time it was Tanner Biby,

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and he looked comfortable right out of
the gate. Now the payoff pitch,

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a swing and a lunging pop up
foul third base side. The catcher

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Cam Gallagher puts it away. How
about that a three two breaking ball,

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and he had Crown lunging at it, and a pretty impressive first inning for

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the rookie and his debut Tanner Biby. They'll check his hand, yes,

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they do to all these pitchers now, and we do not have any kind

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of a Max Surezer moment here.
Half ending in the books. We are

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scoreless and in the bottom of the
first inning, the Guardians offense gave Biby

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an early lead thanks to Josh Naylor. Now the O two pitch swung in

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and ripped into deep right field.
This ball is gone. Well, that'll

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help the Cleveland Guardians can finally say
they lead two to enough in Guardians on

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the two out, two run home
run the right field for Josh Naylor.

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Guardians added to that lead in the
fourth with back to back doubles, first

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from Andre Simnez and then Oscar Gonzales. Marquez delivers and there's a swinging a

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high fly ball to deep left.
That one's headed toward the wall and it

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bangs up against the fence, scoring
is Himenez. In the second sliding is

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Gonzalez. He's safe at second base. Close play, but Gonzalez with the

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RBI double has put the Guardians in
front three nothing. Meanwhile, on the

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mound, Bibi continued to impress Tanner
Biby with the one two delivery, swinging

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and a miss strike three. As
he tried to check it couldn't do it.

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The appeal made to the first base
umpire and Lance Barrett rung him up.

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There's number eight four Tanner Bybee well, he's starting to reach some some

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rarefied air in terms of strikeouts as
he continues to rack him up here through

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the fifth. Colorado did get on
the board with a run in the sixth

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inning that made it three to one
Guardians, but that would be all as

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Eli Morgan took care of the seventh
and then Trevor Stephen was on in the

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eighth. Stephen from the set,
here's the payoff pitch and Bryant swings a

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week chopper to short charged by Rosario
Gloves throws got him. Trevor Stephen cruises

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through the eighth Cleveland with a three
to one lead over Colorado. Will Brennan

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drove in a run with a ground
out in the eighth inning that made it

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four to one Cleveland, and that
was plenty. As Emmanuel Class came on

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to finish things off in the ninth, Claus say not wasting any time.

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Here it comes a pitch swung on
lazy fly to right. Will Brennan clove

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up, shielding his eyes, makes
the catch ballgame so the Guardians avoid the

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sweep. Tanner Baby and his main
JE League debut gets the wind Guardians four

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rockies. One off day Thursday for
the Guardians, and the opener of a

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road trip on Friday night came at
Fenway Park in Boston, and they didn't

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waste any time. Cleveland didn't grabbing
the lead. In the first inning,

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Stephen Kwan and Jose Ramirez reached basse. Josh Naylor's sack fly made it one

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nothing, and then Josh Bell knocked
in one more. Now the pitch swung

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on, hid high in the air
deep left field. Looking up at the

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wall is Duran. Now he leaps
at the wall and it's off the Green

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Monster. In the seconds, Bell
in the scores Ramires to nothing. Guardians.

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In the second inning, Will Brennan
reached and stole second, and then

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Miles Straw came through. Now the
two two swung on drill the right.

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That's a base hit. Brennan hits
thirties being waved home. Verdugo comes up

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throwing to second. Guardians leading three
to nothing. So the stolen base by

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Brennan and then a rifle shot the
other way by Miles Straw, and this

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is Guardians baseball from a year ago. Boston scored a run in the bottom

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of the second to make it a
three to one ball game, but in

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the fourth, Mike Sanino got the
run right back with one swing. Here

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comes Pavetta's one two delivery, swung
on and there's a high fly ball to

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left. This one's hit well.
Yoshita is back looking up and it's gone

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a home run for Mike Sanino.
It just made it over the Monster and

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left front row of the Monster seats
and the Guardians are now in front four

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to one. Boston cut into the
lead with a run in the fifth inning,

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but Shane Bieber was terrific on this
night and he stayed on track,

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back out there getting the job done. In the seventh, the pitch he

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bangs one on the ground of the
second baseman himnas gobbles throws and how about

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that ending. Shane Bieber gave up
the leadoff double, then got the next

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three hitters, only made twelve pitches
in the inning. Beavers had ninety nine

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pitches through seven superb innings. And
he'll finish his night going seven innings,

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giving up two runs and the Guards
lead four to two. We go to

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the eighth at Fenway. Boston threatened
again. In the eighth inning. They

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had runners on the corners with just
one out, and this time it was

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Trevor Stephen trying to hang onto the
lead. Stephen hands at the belt,

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he lets it fly and Cassis hits
the groundball to the second baseman. He

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met his drops to any Straightens throws
to first. What a job by Trevor

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Stephen, first and third, one
out, Boston does no damage. Guardians

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still lead four to two going to
the ninth. Then in the ninth the

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nyt a Guardians still looking for some
more insurance when Will Brennan came to the

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plate and he hits a line shot
too deep, right down the line,

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it goes near the pesky pole.
Gone for a home run. He wrapped

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it around pesky pole three hundred and
two feet down the right field line,

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and Will Brennan has his first home
run and the Guardians have a five to

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two lead. And that three run
lead was plenty for Emmanuel Class in the

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ninth as he came on to close
things out. Now the set now the

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two swinging a chopper. The third
big hop handle by Ramirez throws across the

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diamond. Bull game and Game one
of this road trip starts in Fenway and

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ends with a Cleveland win. The
Guardians dumped the Red Sox five to two,

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So a promising finish to what was
a frustrating start to the week.

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As the Guardians will head into play
on Saturday having one two straight. Stay

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with us when we come back.
We'll hear from Guardians first Baseman DH Josh

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Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you

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from Fenway Park in Boston, where
the Guardians are scheduled to play at four

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ten on Saturday afternoon and then come
back and finish the series at one thirty

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five on Sunday afternoon. The weather
reports are not good, but maybe a

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little more promising for Saturday than they
appear to be for Sunday, But we'll

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wait and see and perhaps I can
get both games in before heading to New

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York for the series that starts on
Monday. Josh Bell the designated hitter and

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first baseman who was signed in the
offseason to bring some power and RBI opportunities

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to the Guardians. He's had a
slow start to his season at the plate,

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but lately things have been turning around, and he says that's just part

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of the ups and downs in a
long season. Yeah, you're right,

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Um, you know, thirty evats
can sway one way or another. But

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you know, happy to you know, finally be hitting around my playing weight

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a little bit and hopefully I have
more to come and more to show.

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You guys, when you talk about
getting in a good stretch, how fine

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a line is it between having some
success out there and being in the stretch

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yard now and then having some stretches
where it's a tough goal. I think

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it's just having the ability to have
quality evats. You know, there was

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a stretch there before I kind of
caught fire where you know, I strung

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together five or six quality evats,
didn't get the results that I wanted,

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might have gotten hit or two there
UM, But that started everything. You

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know, I stopped chasing as much, stop putting, you know, weaker

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contacts in play, UM, start
saying inside the ball more so, I

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started barreling the ball up to the
outfield, and that's that's how the game

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goes. Was there any added added
weight on you because it's a new team

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and obviously probably want to do well
right out of their shoot. I feel

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like, no, more than wanting
to play well in any given momentum.

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Obviously I want to play well,
and I think as games started to go

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on, there was more and more
pressure. But right from the get go,

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I just want to string together quality
of bats and it just wasn't happening.

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And then thirty forty vats go by
and I'm like, all right,

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j V, it's time to turning
on um. But happy that I was

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able to do that and hopefully I
have more to come. On Sunday,

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it was you, it was I
met Rosario Jose Ramirez. I think we

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got an idea of what this lineup
could be and how exciting was that for

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the team to see everyone kind of
getting involved. It was awesome. I

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feel like I met it's been having
some really get at bats and some some

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tough luck as of late, and
so it's nice to see the balls that

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he hits to the outfield fall for
him and then away we went. You

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know, he gave us opportunities to
you know, drive him in UMU.

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Ramirez took advantage. I took advantage
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if we can jump on the board
early and you know, keep them off

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the board early, you just hand
the ball off to the bullpen and let

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them do their job. So you
see this lineup, and I'm sure you

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did some work on it, at
least taking a look at it from a

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year ago. Does it get kind
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different pieces coming together. No,
it's it's really exciting. I feel like,

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you know a lot of the guys
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we're not as hot as we could
be. Offensively. Our our bullpens has

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done a great job of winning us
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most of all the games that they've
started. Um But oh we get gone

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when you know, Kwan gets going, Rosaria keeps going. Ramirez has countless

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opportunities to drive runners in um and
if they want to walk him. They

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can, they can deal with me. I think that, you know,

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that's that's the lineup that we envisioned, you know, really causing problems in

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this division and across the league.
And how about your fit on this team?

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It seems like you've you've blended in
right away and you've been here for

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a while, it seems like,
but how about from your perspective, Oh,

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it feels great. Um. You
know, this clubhouse is a young

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clubhouse. It's awesome to be in
a scenario where after a game people stick

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around. I've been in clubhouses where
people would just want to jet and get

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out, but you know, cards
are still being played, they're playing video

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games in the back. A lot
of smiles out of cheering. Um,

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And that's the way it should be. You know, the baseball's a game.

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And then it definitely feels like I'm
a little bit younger being on the

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swub Josh, thanks slap at the
time. I appreciate it. I appreciate

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you for thinking that's Josh Bell.
Always fun to talk hitting with him and

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get his perspective as a veteran player. And there's not many in that clubhouse

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has been around a little bit with
some different teams and really likes what he's

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seeing here with Cleveland in his first
season with the ball club. Speaking of

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first times around with the ball Clubgan
Allen and Tanner Biby, two young pitchers,

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both made their major league debuts earlier
this week, and we'll visit with

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both when we return after this on
the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network. Don't

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go away, folks, Jim Rose
an ounce back with you. It's Guardians

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Weekly from Fenway Park in Boston,
and it's been quite a week for two

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young pictures in the Guardians farm system
who made their major league debuts. First,

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it was Logan Allen on Sunday,
with six strong innings in a win

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over Miami. We caught up with
him on Monday and he talked about his

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emotions the day after his first big
league Outen. I feel like it still

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probably hasn't said in no. It
was just awesome, especially to have so

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much family around and you know,
feel so much love. Yesterday. It

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was amazing. It was everything I
could ask for. But it's still probably

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doesn't feel real, but I'm sure
it'll set in here. Shortly watching it

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from up above, it seemed like
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But what was that walk in from
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on the mount in the first inning. Yeah, I wanted to make sure

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on the walk in from the bullpen, I took it all in so as

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soon as I went out there to
start the first setting that it was just

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about getting out to the mount and
throwing a warm of pitches and getting ready

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to throw. So I think it
was it was good that that walk out

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from centerfield was good for me just
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take it all in. But yeah, it was awesome. It was it

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was everything I needed, everything I
could have asked for Logan to get to

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this point. As you work your
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when does it become a reality to
you that hey, I'm getting close.

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I think I can get to the
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just being in Triple A last year
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you know, guys go up and
down, how much, how much those

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transactions happened, I think you you
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So I think that probably that right
there was this especially this year,

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having a little bit of success to
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possibility is there, and uh,
just doing everything I can to be ready

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for it. So I was glad
that you know, came out yesterday and

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was ready to go right from the
first pitch. Your mom and daddy were

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here, as well as a bunch
of friends and family. I know you're

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saying it more than you expected,
but your brother Hunter was here. What

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did that mean to you? Oh, that's awesome, you know, just

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just for him to be here and
then to see that, you know,

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he's he's been with me every single
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of my life, training and working, catching my bullpens, doing everything I

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need. So I think to see
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come to fruition and then yesterday it
was awesome for him to see and from

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my whole family as well. But
I think he can definitely take a lot

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of you know, enjoying the fact
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step in this process. Logan,
nice going, Thanks for coming back.

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Thank you so much. I appreciate
it. So what a day for Logan

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Allen. And then just a couple
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went through the same exact thing.
He's a hard throwing right hander and man

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was his debut on Wednesday something else. So when over Colorado, and just

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like Logan Allen, he said,
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but certainly a day he'll never forget. I mean it was crazy. I

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met a lot of new people.
Um, I saw a lot of new

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faces. I mean, obviously different
stadium than Columbus, but it was it

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was a fun day. I mean, it was definitely hectic and it was

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definitely it was definitely not like a
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quick side to figure it out.
But it was it was a fun day.

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I had a lot of fun.
You know. It's interesting because I

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feel like looking down from up above
you yourself and Logan Allen both looked very

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calm and collected on the mount.
Um was it like that for you?

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Though? In reality when when you
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walk in from the bullpen, the
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when I really sat in that and
when I came out of the dug out

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to go to walk out to the
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Um, those one that kind of
like the emotions start coming in like wow,

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like this is one of the craziest
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my life, like probably like number
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I think when I walked out to
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I mean, I was feeling so
many emotions to where I was like actively

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trying to keep him down. I
think I needed to get like my feet

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under me and needed to like get
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after that, I was After that
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it was I settled, NFL felt
good. Did it feel just like another

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normal start that you've made throughout your
pro career so far? I mean no,

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But I mean I mean you see
guys in the box like Charlie Black

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and Chris Bryant. I mean I've
been watching those guys on TV for a

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while and like growing up and some
advice the people gave me where you just

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because you know these people doesn't mean
there's some like godly beings, Like they're

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just baseball players. Stay with the
same thing as you, and they're trying

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to They're trying to beat you just
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So I thought that was a good
piece of helpful advice. Shane Bieberrow

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is always saying how he's not a
finished product yet, and he's been at

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it for a while now at the
major league level. How about you,

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What are you still working on it
that you think you can get better with?

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Um? I mean, I think
every single one I pitchers could get

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better. I mean it's like I
said, I'm a rookie if pitched one

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game in the mijor leagues, and
if Shane Beevers not a finished product,

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I am not even close to finished
product either. And I don't think anyone

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will ever be a finish products until
they retire, and they might not even

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be happy with how they ended.
So I mean, I think, could

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you ask any one of these guys, pitchers, hitters, are you like

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perfectly where you want to be?
They're all gonna say, Now, that's

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what keeps you going every day.
I think if if we were all perfect,

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I think we would get bored and
I think that we would go find

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some new hobbies. So, yeah, it was a great day on Wednesday.

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I'm sure for you, thanks a
lot for coming by. Thank you

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when you talk about a bright future
for both Tanner Biby and Logan Allen they

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were outstanding in their major league debuts, and we'll see if they can carry

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that through to their next albings for
Alan that comes on Sunday right here at

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Fenway Park. Stay with us when
we come back. We'll hear from Guardian

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Senior Vice President Bob Di Biacio about
the two who will be inducted into the

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Cleveland Baseball Hall of Fame later this
summer. That comes your way shortly on

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the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio and apports
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manywiers has won it half up the
blachers and left a two run homer on

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a two two pits in the twelve
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innings five to four And when he
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just stood at home plate and watched
it. Welcome back to Guardians Weekly,

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Jim Rosenhouse back with you from Fenway
Park in Boston and earlier this week back

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home at Progressive Field. A great
announcement as the Guardians announced that Manny Ramirez,

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the fetored slugger from the nineties,
along with Dale Mitchell who was a

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big part of those great teams back
in the late forties and early fifties for

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Cleveland, they will be headed to
the Cleveland Baseball Hall of Fame, inducted

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this coming August the nineteenth at Progressive
Field. They will be honored that night

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and it should be a great night
with Manny Ramirez in attendance. And we

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had a chance to catch up with
Guardians Senior Vice President Bob di Bias and

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talk to him about the twenty twenty
three class with a lot of discussion on

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who should go in and as Bobby
d says, they got to a good

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place. Yes, we did,
Rosie, and it's always exciting when we

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can talk about the greats and franchise
history. It has been a while since

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we've had an induction into our Hall
of Fame the seventy fifth anniversary of the

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nineteen forty eight World Series champions.
Dale Mitchell was an integral part of that

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Championship ball club. He's one of
the best left fielders in baseball at the

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time, and just felt it appropriate. I think he might be the final

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piece in the Hall of Fame of
somebody from that incredible ball club, that

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Championship ball club. Dave Garcia,
our manager back in nineteen eighties early eighties,

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would always talk about Rick Mann being
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he'd always add that he wasn't as
good as Dale Mitchell, who was probably

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one of the best out defensive outfielders
he had ever seen play. He matched

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him with Mill Willie May's, Duke
Snyder, all the great names, Larry

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Dobe, all the great names who
played in the outfield during that period of

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time. And Dale would win top
fielding awards, um, you know,

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most put outs and fewest airs and
the fielding percentage. And I'd always asked

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David because I thought I knew the
history of our franchise, and I wasn't

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one hundred percent aware of of Dale
Mitchell because we all knew about all the

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other greats on that team, and
um, it just with us for all

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these years. And then when we
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champion team, that this would be
an appropriate year to put Dale Mitchell into

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the Hall of Fame. And maybe
it chose it was a different time in

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baseball. Then his entire career spent
with Cleveland entire, Dale Mitchell Junior and

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Bo Mitchell, his two sons.
I was actually Rosie at the Denver Airport

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snow delay getting to spring training this
year, and Bow Mitchell works with the

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Colorado Rockies. Obviously, you know
that oddly they're here right now. We're

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playing as we interview, do this
interview prior to one of our games against

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the Rockies, and I thought,
you know, on this snowy called day,

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I'm gonna call Bow Mitchell. He's
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for the Colorado Rockies. I said, I'm gonna call him and give him

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some wonderful news and just share with
him our thoughts. And it was a

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wonderful conversation. I think they're going
to have twenty plus family members come for

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the induction ceremony on August Saturday,
August nineteen, so that's gonna be wonderful.

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But he again one of the guys
that didn't get all the fanfare,

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but was an intricral part of a
championship World Series, championship team. I

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know, you know this stuff.
You talked about his defense. Oh,

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by the way, three times finished
in the top five in the American League

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in batting average, and his career
batting average three twelve, three twelve.

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Yeah, he was a bat a
little bit. Yeah, No, he

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was a great player, known for
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hitter, certainly deserving of Hall of
Fame recognition. Bobby d joining us.

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We're talking about the twenty twenty three
Guardians Hall of Fame class, Dale Mitchell

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going in and Manny Ramirez goes in. Gosh, he was such a big

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part of those great teams and had
some unbelievable years here in Cleveland. You

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know, I heard Tito talk about
him the other day, and the one

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word he used was a lovable kid. That's what he was when he was

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here. Just a remarkably likable,
lovable young man who was blessed to be

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a great hitter. But he worked
his tail off. That was one thing

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about Charlie Manuel as their hitting coach. You know, with Albert and Carlos

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and Jimmy and Manny, they worked
hard in those batting cages in early mornings

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in winter Haven, and you know, to become one of the best hitters

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in the game of baseball. You
could argue that Manny Ramirez was one of

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the best right handed hitters of his
generation. Ken Griffey Junior from the left

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side, Barry Bonds from the left
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I mean, you can you can
argue man He's in that discussion. That's

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how remarkable Manny Ramirez was with a
bat and Bobby d He was part of

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those great teams in the mid nineties. But he was the young guy,

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wasn't he. It took him a
little bit to fit in and find his

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spot. Batted seventh or eighth in
the lineup with jim Toby, and all

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of a sudden, you know,
he liked Jimmy crept up, you know,

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into the middle of the lineup to
be an impact player. I will

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never forget the nineteen ninety nine season
where Manny drove in still a single season

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record for our franchise, one hundred
and sixty five runs. He drove in

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one hundred and sixty five on an
offense in nineteen ninety nine, our most

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prolific offense in our franchise history.
In our one hundred and three year American

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League history, one hundred twenty three
year history in the American League, our

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franchise has only scored more than a
thousand runs once. That was nineteen ninety

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nine. He drove in one hundred
and sixty five of those runs. A

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remarkable hitter. There was a story, if I may real quickly Rosy share

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with you. Travis Freeman told me
a story when we're sitting in the dugout

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one day. Travis had announced to
just a small group of people that he

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was retiring, and so I asked
him, we're gonna do one of those

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big press conferences, you know,
in the press interview room, and he

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goes no, which didn't surprise anybody
that he just wasn't that kind of guy.

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So I asked him, I said, how about some of the media

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just meet you in the dugout.
Right now, I'll grab a number of

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the daily media over and you can
explained to them, and they can sit

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on the top steps of the dugout
and we can have a nice conversation.

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He goes, yeah, that would
be the way to do it. And

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while we sat and talked, I
said, give me a story about your

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time with us, and he goes, oh, Manny Ramirez, And I

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said what, and he goes,
I was a victim of my regiment,

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my discipline. When I came off
the field, I put my glove and

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my fielding glove and my sunglasses and
everything in the same spot and the dugout,

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so I knew exactly where to go
get it to get back on the

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field. Then I'd go get my
bat. I always hit behind Manny.

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One game, I go to the
bat rack and my gamer's gone, and

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I'm yelling at the bat boys,
and I never yelled, and I'm like,

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where's my gamer? And then I
happened to look up and Manny is

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using my bath My bat hits a
double off the wall and he's like,

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well, I can't go up to
bat with the same bat that was just

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used. This is a little league. So I don't know what to do,

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so he goes, I grabbed a
heavier bat. He goes, I

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probably used Jim Tomy's bat so I
could dribble one to second base to get

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the runner over. No outs,
many let off, get the guy over,

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and goes, And I did so. The next time up, I

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run into the dugout, put my
stuff down, go grab my bat before

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Manny could grab it. And I
watched him and he used somebody else's bat.

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He said he went four for four
that day and never used his own

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bat. He goes. If that
doesn't say what kind of remarkable hitter he

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was, I don't know what does, because you know how much we care

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about our bats, and I just
thought that says it right there. Just

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a remarkable hitter in this game of
baseball, a wonderful talent. Ended up

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playing with several other teams after his
time in Cleveland, but he will always

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be remembered as a Cleveland Indian,
no question. Yeah, we think so.

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I'll never forget when after the first
draft, number one draft pick,

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I think thirteenth player. Overall,
things are a little bit different back then.

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In our player development system. We're
out at baldhom Wallace College, with

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our draft picks, our first time
the draft picks got together and we're taking

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batting practice and infield practice, and
we have the media out there, and

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my old friend Alan Davis, who
was the TV guy for Channel five and

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ended up working in our community relations
department bi Lingual, so he helped Manny

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in interviews for us with the group. And Manny's sitting in the batter's box

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at baldhom Wallace Field and so the
balhom Wallace baseball players are out watching our

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draft picks in their coach saddles up
to us and Manny's hitting balls and he

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looked at us. He goes,
I've never in all my years seen anybody

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hit a ball where he's hitting him
in batting practice ever, and he's doing

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it on every swing. He goes, that young man is special. And

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from day one he came to Cleveland
at Baldenwalla's College Dagam batting practice, we

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saw something incredibly special with a gentleman
with a bat in his hands. Incredibly

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special. He will be honored by
induction into the twenty twenty three Guardians Hall

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of Fame class. It will be
prior to the Guardians Tigers game on August

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the nineteenth, and Manny will be
honored with his own bobbleheads, so that'll

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be just kind of icing on the
cake there from our friends at Medical Mutual.

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That's a night game on a Saturday
in August, and good seats are

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still available at cle guardians dot com. Bobby d always great to have you

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a long thanks for sharing on the
Hall of Fame class for this year.

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Thank you, Rosie. That's Guardians
Senior Vice President Bob di Biasio talking about

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the latest inductions for the Cleveland Baseball
Hall of Fame, Manny Ramirez and Dale

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Mitchell going in later this summer.
That's going to do it for this week's

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edition of Guardians Weekly. Thanks so
much for tuning in as always, and

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as always, thanks to Brian Matsey
for helping to put together our show each

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week. We'll join you next week
from back home in downtown Cleveland at Progressive

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Field. Until then, this is
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