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Welcome to Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland
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everyone, welcome to Guardians Weekly.
Gim Ro's in house along with you from

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Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland. Davey
along with us as we continue our off

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season shows for the Guardians. With
Major League Baseball's postseason continuing, the matchups

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are set for their respective championship series
in both the National League and the American

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League. A lot of upsets in
the early rounds of the postseason, so

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it's the Battle of Texas in the
American League, the Astros and Rangers getting

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set for what should be a thrilling
best of seven American League Championship Series,

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and the surprising Arizona Diamondbacks taking on
the Phillies, who upset the Braves in

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their National League Division series. They'll
have at it in the National League Championship

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Series. Should be some great baseball
coming up as the postseason continues in Major

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League Baseball. Coming up on this
week's show, we begin our look back

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at the twenty twenty three season.
Some of the great games of twenty twenty

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three, and we'll take it back
to that first road trip. Optimism running

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high for the Guardians coming out of
spring training, and they open the season

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on the road in both Seattle and
in Oakland very impressively as they came home

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five and two after that first road
swing, and we'll take a look back

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at two of the extra inning wins
on that road swing. But first we

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visit with one of the top prospects
in the Guardians minor league system, hard

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hitting outfielder Chase de Lauder. De
Lauder is in the Arizona Fall League currently

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and heading into play on Saturday,
De Lauder was hitting two seventy three,

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a couple of home runs and a
dozen runs driven in in very limited playing

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time so far as the Arizona Fall
League is just getting started. He and

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Kyle Manzardo another hot prospect for the
Guardians in terms of position players who can

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hit and hit for power. Both
of them off to fine starts with the

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Peoria entry out in the Arizona Fall
League. But De Lauder just turned twenty

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three earlier this month. He's still
in his first season of pro ball on

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the field. Even though he was
drafted with a first round selection back in

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twenty twenty two, sixteenth overall out
of James Madison University, the first player

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ever in that program's history to become
a first rounder in the Major League Baseball

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Draft. He batted over four hundred
in his three seasons there. Why hasn't

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he been on the field, Why
is this just his first season of pro

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ball on the field, Well,
he had a broken left foot that really

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gave him some issues at the tail
end of his college career, and he

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reinjured that foot, needed to have
surgery and as a result, did not

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take the field until this season,
and he only played in forty two games

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overall this year in the minor leagues, thirty nine over at Single A Lake

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County. But by season's end,
he hit three point fifty five with five

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homers and thirty nine driven in in
fifty seven games, with an ops of

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just under one thousand, which is
tremendous. You get up over eight hundred,

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and you're talking about a good combination
of on base and power and all

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the good things that make an offensive
player, and he is well above that

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benchmark numbers. So some big things
expected from Jace to Louder, and Louder

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really starting to contribute in the Arizona
Fall League. We had a chance to

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catch up with him from Peoria Arizona
earlier this week and he talked about how

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things have been going in his first
Arizona Fall League experience. Great, awesome.

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I appreciate you having me and I
love it here. And when you

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talk about the Arizona Fall League before
we get into your summer and and how

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things are going for you, what
is the vibe like out there? You

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mentioned playing with some other teams,
but it's such a well respected league and

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do you feel that when when you're
out there playing knowing past players who have

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gone on to big things in the
major leagues. Yeah? Absolutely, I

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mean, you know, the talent
here is is like it's it's supposed to

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be, I would say, and
you know, you got all the guys

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in the stands watching, you know, take a note, so I would

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say, it's every bit of what
it's supposed to be and what it's portrayed

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to be. And when you look
at your background James Madison University, Uh,

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not as well known as maybe some
other baseball schools, But why was

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that the right fit for you coming
out of high school? And and how

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did it work out for you to
allow you to become the player that you

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did there. Yeah, I mean
James Madison. You know, it was

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awesome. You know, the huge
praise of the coaching staff that was there

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when I was there. You know, they did everything they could for me

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personally. That was the only school
that offered me. So that's what That's

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what I rode with. And I
have no regrets going there, even you

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know, sticking there throughout the three
years. You know, those guys are

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awesome, very low to me,
so I felt felt the need to return

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the favor and you know it worked
out. How much did you change from

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from the time you you stepped on
campus to the time that you were drafted

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by Cleveland? H you mean like
physically, Yeah, it's physically and as

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and as a player. Well,
actually I committed. I committed to school

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as a pitcher only by my junior
year of high school, so I was

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going there originally as a po you
know, gave me a shot to two

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way once I got there. You
know, just had a had a successful

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fall that that fall, I think
that was the twenty nineteen fall would have

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been. So I had a good
fall and he gave me a chance to

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start in the outfield that spring and
pitching. Pitching kind of fell backwards after

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that, and you know, obviously
Covid had hit and just kind of hammered

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the weight room from there on out
and started just swinging it. Do you

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miss pitching at all? I do. I mean, pitching is just a

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different It's a whole different ball game. I mean, you're you're in total

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control of the game and kind of
you know, it's kind of like a

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quarterback, You're kind of in control
of what happens from the start. So

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yeah, I definitely miss It's a
very different, I would say, like

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kind of mindset than a hitter.
But yeah, we're joined by Chase,

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a lot of former top round draft
pick of the Guardians who had a tremendous

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season once he was able to get
on the field and participate in the minor

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league season. And Chase, you
mentioned that the development you had at James

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Madison and I know you also went
had that opportunity to play in the Cape

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during one of the summers there,
and what did that do for your game

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being able to play there? Yeah, I mean you're a Cape was awesome.

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I didn't really know what to expect
when I first was going up there,

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but that was kind of like the
intro. It felt like to some

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real real baseball, some real competition, some playing every day. So I

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think that was like, that was
awesome experience for me. And that was

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the first time I really you know, traveled far away from home and played

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with just a bunch of random guys
that I didn't really know. So it

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was awesome experience. And for every
player in a minor league system trying to

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get to the major leagues, how
do you view this period of time where

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you're in Arizona here this fall and
most likely we'll start at a fairly high

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level next season. What are your
goals for twenty twenty four as you round

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out here in twenty twenty three.
Yeah, I mean my goals are,

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you know, obviously to just make
the improvements on my game from both sides

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of the ball as I need to
after you know, seeing the results of

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obviously the season and we'll see what
happens with the rest of the fall league,

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but making those adjustments to early spring
training, and then other than that,

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staying real healthy, you know,
getting getting in a good routine and

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keep myself out there. And I
think the rest should take care of itself

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well. Chase. It's been fun
to watch your development from a distance and

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certainly looking forward to seeing you out
in spring training. Thanks so much for

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coming along. Appreciate it. I
appreciate it. Thank you. That is

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Chase the Louder, a name to
certainly keep an eye on next spring,

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along with Kyle Manzarto, two new
young power hitting prospects who has certainly put

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together some really good numbers both during
their minor league seasons this year and now

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in the Arizona fall Leaf. Stay
with us when we come back. We'll

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visit with Bart Swain, the Guardians
director of Baseball Information, with a look

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back at the life and times of
Jim Poole, who passed away last week

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at the age of fifty seven,
a former Cleveland Indians relief pitcher from those

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great teams back in the nineties,
And will visit with Bart and some of

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his thoughts on the untimely passing of
Pool who had a courageous battle against als

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and he succumbed to that last week. That's coming your way shortly on the

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Jim Rosenhouse along with you from Progressive
Field in downtown Cleveland, And unfortunately,

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last week the Cleveland baseball community lost
a valued member, certainly one of

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the good guys in the game when
he pitched here back in the nineties for

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some of those great teams in a
relief role. Jim Pool a relief pitcher

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who spent eleven seasons in the major
leagues, and parts of four of those

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seasons came with Cleveland, the team
that he ended up pitching the most for,

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and that included stint for the nineteen
ninety five ball club, as he

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was a valuable arm for that team
that reached the World Series that year.

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And unfortunately he passed away last Saturday
due to complications from als, he had

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a courageous battle against that disease.
He was an integral part of Major League

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Baseball's efforts to raise awareness of lou
Garrigg's disease, and certainly sad news and

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something that hit a lot of people
very hard. In the Guardians organization,

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Bart Swain is the director of Baseball
Information for the Guardians, and he was

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just getting started on his career in
baseball information at the major league level during

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those nineteen ninety years when the team
was a perennial contender not only to reach

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the postseason, but make it all
the way to the World Series, and

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he developed a close relationship up with
Jim Pool and he talks about how difficult

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this past week has been, but
also some great memories of a good guy

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in the game, Jim Poole.
It was sad to read that when I

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came up. Paul Assenmacher actually texted
us Me and Charlie Maggy and a couple

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other guys, Frank Mancini one of
our clubhous guys, and yeah, I

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mean it really hit home hard.
It's Jim and I were really close,

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kind of took me under his wing
in ninety five. As you know,

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a twenty five year old first year
PR guy and I'll just I'll never forget

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him. He was a special guy. Did you mentioned that It's ninety five

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and at your first year with all
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and we were talking earlier, jim
was he was a middle reliever,

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kind of a matchup guy at times. But you know, those pictures sometimes

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get lost in the show, but
there's such key parts of it and and

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what did it mean to you to
have a friend like that on that particular

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team. Yeah, Jimmy. Jimmy
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anyone would look at our roster in
ninety five, we kind of forget about

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him, especially if you didn't remember
what happened in Game six. But but

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he was just such a friendly person, good with money, went to Georgia

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Tech, so we had a lot
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talking about college and stuff, and
just just someone that if you're having a

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bad day, he would always lift
you up a little bit and it was

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always there for you. And it
was just a great friend, a great

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teammate, a great guy to have
around. A lot of the players gravitated

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to him because he was really good
with math, with numbers and financial planning,

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and he was really tight with some
of the people in the union as

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far as the benefits of the players. So he was kind of like the

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glue in that bullpen. Just as
far as a personality. Bart Swayne is

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joining us. He's the Guardian's director
of Baseball Information. We're talking about the

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life and times of major league pitcher
Jim Poole, who spent actually, boy,

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you look at it, and this
was a surprise as many years with

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Cleveland as with any team in his
eleven year major league baseball career, parts

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of four seasons with the then Indians, and part you got that phone call

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when he lets you know what was
going on in terms of his battle with

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ALS, and baseball will always be
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How hard was that phone calling and
what did he fill you in on

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in terms of what he was going
through. So must have been probably May

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of twenty twenty two. He said
he had been diagnosed about six weeks prior

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and he had just noticed it,
maybe playing pickleball or doing some stuff around

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the yard and his balance was affected
and he tried to throw a ball at

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one point they got you know,
he was walking around the neighborhood and a

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ball came over to him and he
was going to throw it back to a

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kid, and he tried to and
he like threw it in the ground,

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and he knew something was not good. So he had some doctor visits and

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that's what they eventually landed on.
And you know, God loved him.

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He called all his friends and I
know it advanced pretty quickly for him,

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the disease, and I'm just I'm
just happy to know him. It was

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it was a tough phone I'm sure
there was a lot of tough phone calls

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for him there, and but that's
just the kind of guy he was.

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He's a stand up guy and we're
all better off knowing him. I mean,

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you talk about a stand up person
and someone that just wore it for

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everyone else. It was it was
him and bart. Baseball can be a

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I mean, it's it's a fun
game too, and then sometimes there's there's

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circumstances that maybe legion in a certain
path, he actually stayed with you and

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during the postseason and explain that how
does why does that happen? And then

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you know the reality of living situations
sometimes when when a team plays October baseball.

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So yeah, like a lot of
guys signed leases for six months,

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so you know, baseball seasons from
April to in the September. He had

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signed the lease in ninety eight.
I think he joined us like mid years,

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so he probably has signed like a
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lease, and his lease ran out
October first, and he ended up living

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with me in Rocky River in UH
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And those were the days when October's
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not necessarily ninety eight, but certainly
ninety five and ninety seven. It was

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fun. It was really cool.
We had an extra bedroom and there was

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our our son, Jim. Oh
listen, you know, it's obviously hard

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to get that news, but sometimes
you can think back to some fun times

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and hopeful, oh yeah, hopefully
this has allowed you to do that a

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little bit. Absolutely. I mean, it was I had forgotten about ninety

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eight and him living with us,
and just all the times that we would

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hang out on the road and hotel
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or clubhouses and just talk about life. It was. It was great.

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He was you wanted a kind well, we thanked Bart for his contributions to

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our show this week and for stopping
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really made a nice impact here in
a very short period of time with the

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Cleveland Ball Club, and he certainly
will be missed. Stay with us,

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We'll have more to come after this
the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Network. Welcome back

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to Guardians Weekly. Jimm rosen House
back with you from Progressive Field in downtown

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Cleveland. And once we hit the
off season, what has become a yearly

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tradition and certainly a fun portion of
our shows each week during the offseason,

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or at least on a very much
regular basis, I'll look back at some

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of the great games of the prior
season, and in twenty twenty three,

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well those got rolling early in what
turned out to be a year of a

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slew of close ballgames, the Guardians
trailing only the Cincinnati Reds, and the

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amount of one run games that they
played that got started on that first road

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trip of the season, you may
remember, coming out of spring training,

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the Guardians opened the year with a
West coast road swing, four in Seattle

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and then three in Oakland, and
on that opening road swing, they ended

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up playing three extra inning games.
They won them all. Two of them

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turned out to be one run victories. They lost a one run game in

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Oakland. There was a two nothing, shut out victory over the Mariners.

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So the close games started early for
this ball club. And we're going to

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highlight a couple of the extra inning
wins in that Oakland series, starting with

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the opener. Now, this was
after an extra inning victory to close out

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the Seattle series on Sunday, April
the second, So then it was down

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the coast to Oakland, California and
the Oakland Coliseum and on a Monday night

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in Oakland the Guardians after taking three
out of four from Seattle. It was

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a wild start to the series with
the Athletics. They got things going in

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the first inning when Stephen Quan and
Jose Ramirez reached base and that brought Josh

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Nayler to the plate. Josh Nayler
the BA and he swings drills of ase

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hit into center field. Quan around
third, he is heading home, Ramirez

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will stop at second. Guardians leaded
one to nothing on a two out RBI

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single to center by Josh Naylor.
He has now knocked in three and the

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Guardians have jumped on James Kaprillion for
a one nothing lead, and they still

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have runners at first and second.
Boy, and who knew at that point

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Naylor would have a tremendous season,
falling just shy of the one hundred RBI

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mark. But that got the game
going one nothing Cleveland. The next batter

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was Andre Simenez. His next delivery
swung on line toward first, fair ball

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down the right field line, rolls
into foul territory for extra bases. That'll

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score Ramirez into third is Nailer and
an RBI double down the right field line

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for Andre Cemenez and another clutch two
ot RBI hit. The Guardians lead two

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to nothing. Now, the A's
would cut into the lead with a run

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in the bottom half of the first
inning. Then a five run second inning

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put Oakland on top six to two, but the Guardians would not beat a

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turret. They started to chip away
in the fourth with a blast from Naylor.

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I'll try and get something done here
against the starter, James Kaprillian,

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who is set down seventh straight.
He goes to work on Josh Naylor and

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Naylor hits one high and deep to
right. This one is into the seats

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home run Josh Naylor, his second
on the season. Guardians cut into that

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lead. It's now six to three
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two men on and Miles Straw at
the dish. Here comes the two

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to two pitch to Miles Straw.
It's on its way, swung online,

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drive left field that gets down for
a base at rounding third, heading for

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home. As he meant is he
scores big waved around third is Brennan.

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He will score standing up. It's
a for Straw that drives in two,

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and just like that, the Guardians
are right back in it. In the

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fifth inning, Ramon Loreano, who
would be a future Cleveland Guardian later on

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in that twenty twenty three season,
he game to the plate for Oakland,

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trying to extend the Athletics lead.
Here's the pitch swung on and here's a

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high fly ball deep left field.
Back there looking up, but Quan won't

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get this one. It is gone. It's a two run home run for

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Loreano and Oakland is now out to
an eight to five league Well, once

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again, back came the Guardians,
this time in the sixth inning. They

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had a man on third and Stephen
Quan hoping to deliver. There ain't handers

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ready. Here it comes, swinging
a fly ball to left, medium deep

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near the line. Brown makes the
catch, tagging is Sonino. He's coming

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home. Throw to the plate is
cut off and it's a sack fly to

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left by Steven and the Guardians now
trail eight to six with a runner at

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second and now Timan out here in
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Rosario came through with a big two
out hit. Familia is ready here.

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It comes a swing and a shut
up the middle base at center field that'll

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score Will Brennan from second, and
it's once again a one run game.

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And once again Cleveland gets a big
two out hit. They have had three

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two out RBI hits tonight. Onto
the eighth the ballgame went Guardians down by

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a run. Miles Straw and Steven
Kwan both singled to get the inning started,

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and then Rosario got the job done
again. The pitch swing in a

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little fly ball not very deep and
left. Brown will make to catch straws

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tagging He's coming home. Throw to
the plate cut off at the mound by

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note of the first basement, and
we've got an eight to eight game.

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So Ameda Rosario didn't hit it very
deep to left, but it'll go as

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a sack fly. Second RBI tonight
his third on the year, and Cleveland's

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come all the way back to tie
this game at eight. And then who

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else but Jose Ramirez to put the
Guardians on top. The pitch swung on

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line drive, that'll be a base
hitting the right. Kuan Well go to

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third over running the ball is capling
right. It rolls to the warning track.

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Quan is going to score the goal
ahead run. Ramirez is into third

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with a little league triple and the
Guardians have a nine to eight lead.

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Josh Bell was next trying to get
Ramirez home from third. Bell sends a

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little bloop in the air to left. It's not deep near the line.

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Brown running catch, he'll throw to
the plate. Here comes Ramirez throw slide

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safe for the head first slide.
Ramirez eluded the tag of Langoliers on a

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shallow fly to left near the line
that Brown made a running, charging catch

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on and throw of the plate.
But the best base runner in baseball,

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Jose Ramirez scores from third on a
head first slide. Why would you do

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it with the type of night where
Oakland just wouldn't go away. They tied

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the game in the bottom of the
ninth inning a two run home run by

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Seth Brown, and once again the
ballgame went to extra innings. In the

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tenth Stephen Kwan was the runner starting
at second base. I'm at Rosario singled,

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and then Jose Ramirez came through again. Now the right hander fires,

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runner goes pitch swung on line towards
second base, hit right field. That'll

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score Kwan. Rosario hesitated. Now
he'll go to third and Jose Ramirez with

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his third straight hit tonight his second
RBI in this game. And the Guardians

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still have runners at the quarters.
And now we're back on top of eleven

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to ten. And then the Guardians
got a little help from A's reliever Trevor

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May. The pitch down in the
dirt kicks away from Langoliers. He doesn't

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know where it is coming home to
scores Forsario as the ball trickled behind him

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about fifteen feet. Langeliers lost where
the ball was and it'll be a wild

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pitch and a huge insurance run as
Cleveland now leads at twelve to ten.

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That proved to be a huge run, as once again, Oakland would not

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go away bottom half of the tenth
inning. Eli Morgan was now on to

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try and pick up the save as
Emmanuel Classe suffered a blown save in the

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bottom half of the ninth inning,
so his night was done. Morgan came

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on. He got the first two
outs, but then a double drove in

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a run to make it a one
run ball game at twelve eleven, and

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the pressure was on as Morgan faced
Tony Kemp trying to nail down the save.

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Here's the pitch, swung on fly
ball left feet near the line.

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Kwan Is there makes the catch.
Ball game Now that was a breeze,

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wasn't it. In ten innings,
Cleveland is able to survive Oakland by a

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final score of twelve to eleven.
What a wild game early in the season.

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Twelve eleven, the Guardians win it, and they continued their hot stretch.

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They had won four straight heading into
Tuesday's game, another one run game

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in Oakland. This time the Athletics
went it four to three, walking it

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off in the bottom half of the
ninth inning. So the road trip concluded

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on Wednesday afternoon, April fifth,
in Oakland, Guardians trying to go five

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and two on the trip. You
knew it wouldn't be easy and it wasn't

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good pitching on both sides in this
game. It was scoreless until the sixth

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with Hunter Gaddis getting to start and
he had it all working in this one.

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He deals and the pitch head in
the air third base side foul Arius

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has played of room. What an
inning for Hunter Gaddis. He had an

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eight pitch inning, and then in
the sixth inning the Guardians finally got the

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scoring started with a couple of men
on for catcher Cam Gallagher. Domingo as

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Savedo in the pitch to catch a
Cam Gallagher and he swings and drives the

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first pitch deep left field on the
runners brown track wall and it's off the

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top of the wall that'll score him
and his straw round third will score.

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Had a two out, two run
double off the fifteen foot wall and left

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and left center off the man of
Cam Gallagher and the Guardians have a two

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nothing lead. Gallagher jumped on the
first pitch from Domingo as Savedo and blasted

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it high off that fifteen foot wall
and the Guardians get the desperate hit with

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two down that they have been lacking
and give cam Gallagher his first hit and

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rbies as a guardian. And in
the seventh, two men on, it

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was Jimenez getting it done at the
plate. Bases loaded, two down,

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four, Jimenez the pitch and he
rips one in the right center. That'll

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be a base hit, that'll score
Ramirezan. Gonzalez on his way to third

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base to throw the slide to tag
Arius is out at third, but the

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run scores, so give Andre Simenez
a huge two out and a two run

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single to right center and Cleveland now
leads Oakland Ford to nothing stretch time in

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the Bay Area, But in the
eighth inning, two home runs and four

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runs for Oakland tied the game at
four, and it's stay tied through nine.

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And once again it was on the
extra innings, third time on the

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road trip. In the top half
of the tenth, a walk in a

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wild pitch put runners at second and
third for Will Brennan. Brennan awaiting the

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payoff pitch from Za Jackson. Here
it comes swung on grounded towards short that'll

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score a run and get a runner
over. Alan will throw it first and

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he almost was late. Brennan made
it close. He is out, but

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Hemanta scores the go ahead run,
and just as important, Miles Straw advances

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to third. Heck of a job
by Will Brennan and he almost beat it

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out. And then Stephen Kuan added
a huge insurance run. The next delivery

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swung on line towards short over the
head of Alan. That'll be a base

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hit to left scoring Straw, and
that's another critical hit for the top RBI

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guy on the Guardians. Stephen Kwan, with his eighth RBI gives Cleveland a

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six to four lead here in the
tenth inning. And nobody has had this

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kind of a start driving in runs
for Cleveland as a leadoff hitter since Kenny

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Lofton in nineteen ten ninety eight.
And this time am annual Class A came

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on in the bottom half of the
tenth. They ain't trying to finish things

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up, and he got the job
done. Now he bats with two down

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two on Cleveland up two in the
tenth, the Pits line drived a deep

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right field but right there's Gonzales ballgame
and the Guardians, for the first time

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in twenty one years, opened the
season on the road and come away with

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two series wins. Cleveland again in
extra innings for the third time this year

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has won as they beat Oakland six
to four in ten innings. So what

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a season opening road trip for the
Guardians as they went five and two against

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a very good Seattle team that had
big time postseason aspirations and of course the

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rebuilding Oakland Athletics. But you catch
a young team like that early in the

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season at home and it can always
be a challenge, and the Guardians got

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through it, taking two out of
three from the Athletics. Look back at

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some of the great games of twenty
twenty three. When we come back,

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will visit with a pair of rookie
relief pitchers and sometimes a starter in the

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case of Xavion Curry. That's coming
your way shortly on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians

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to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosen House
back with you for our final segment of

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this week week show, and we're
going to talk pitching with Xaviyon. Curry

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had made the ball club out of
spring training sort of, we'll get to

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that in a moment with him,
but he ended up being on the ball

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club coming out of camp and provided
a big boost for the Guardians in terms

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of long relief. His first appearance
came on that wild twelve eleven victory at

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Oakland on the first Monday of the
season, in which he worked five innings

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when the team was desperate for length
from their bullpen and they got it from

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Exavion. Curry was just terrific and
that really set the tone for what turned

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out to be a tremendous season.
Most of it was in that long relief

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role, but when some pitching injuries
cropped up midway through, Curry was thrust

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into the starting rotation and he held
his own there as well. We caught

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up with him at the end of
the season, but had him look back

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at the start of the year when
leyden spring training it looked like he would

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open in the minor leagues, and
he talked about what those days of not

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knowing what his future would hold,
at least the immediate future, what those

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were like for him, and then
finally getting the news that he had made

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the ball club. Oh yeah,
you know that, You know that that

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couple of days, you know,
towards the end of the spring training,

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just going back over to the minor
league side for a couple of days,

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and then getting a call that you
know, I could possibly be departing with

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the team once the season starts.
You know, just you know, I

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do think about that, and like
I just kind of look back at and

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just say how blessed I am to
even still be here in September. You

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know, It's been a whole season
now, and you know, the kind

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of the way I say is,
somehow, some way, I've still been

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a part of this team the whole
time, and that's just that's just a

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blessing. Guy has a plan for
me. We saw you a little bit

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last year. You made your debut. Most of your season in the minor

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leagues, but your stuff has been
good up here this season. Are you

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that much better of a picture you
think from from this time a year ago?

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You know, honestly, I would
say no. Me personally, I

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probably feel like, you know,
maybe even last year, I was probably

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just as far as the minus,
like a little better. Like I,

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you know, might've had a little
better stuff. But I would say I

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feel like here, you know,
just and even through spring training, like

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obviously just stand in the weight room, staying in contact with the pitching staff,

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and the off season just trying to
work on things to improve. And

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then I think a big help was
getting here, and like like you said

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before, just playing here, like
having an opportunity to just pitch in that

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long relief role. You know,
it allowed me to how I say,

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it allowed me to get reps and
at the major league level, allowed me

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to go out there and to test
my stuff, like to be able to

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say, Okay, I've been working
on this on execute my slider like this

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in the bullpins with the pitching staff, so let's see how that plays when

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I go into games. And just
honestly, just even talking to the other

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guys on the pitching staff, picking
their brains and just trying to figure out

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like, okay, like you know, how do you pitch this guy?

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How what is your understanding of the
zone, like when you're trying to throw

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a curveball where you're trying to start
it. And just like like I said,

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I would say, I think I
just learned more about pitching at the

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major league level and just you know, and for the most part of the

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season, just honestly even being able
to just watch, you know, our

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guys go out there and pitch and
just you know, kind of model my

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my game plans after theirs and just
watching how they had how they had success.

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So just being able to just be
up here and play here and and

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watch here and just just learn and
just kind of soak up everything that I

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felt like I needed to soak up
to make myself better, you know,

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kind of like the like the Kobe
Bryant effect. You know, he said

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something in the video that I saw, but just basically he used the world

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to help him become better at basketball. You know, everything was kind of

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catered towards you know, how can
this help me in basketball? And that's

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kind of the approach that I take. You know, just soaking up everything

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that I can to to be able
to, you know, use it to

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make myself a better person at a
better baseball player. Xavier, and thanks

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a lot for coming back. Appreciate
it, no problem. Thank you for

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having me Atlantic. Xavion Curry one
of the good guys in the game and

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certainly had a fine rookie season for
the Guardians. Oh, we hope you

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enjoy that look back at the twenty
twenty three season. We'll do that throughout

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the off season. Here. That's
going to do it for this week's edition

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of Guardian's Weekly. As always,
thanks to Brian Motze for all of his

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help on our show each week.
We'll join you again next week from right

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here in downtown Cleveland. Until then, this is Jim Rosenhouse reminding you that

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