CLEVELAND — It's called Guards Ball. The Cleveland Guardians play a grit-and-grind brand of baseball rooted in hustle and precision: bunts dropped down to advance runners, singles stretched into ...
CLEVELAND — Behind rare sacrifice bunts and a 14-strikeout gem from ace Tarik Skubal, the Detroit Tigers took a page (and an all-important Game 1) from the Cleveland Guardians by playing small ball ...
Cleveland Guardians manager Stephen Vogt knows as well as anyone — after a decade as an MLB catcher — that it’s impossible to contend with a well-executed safety squeeze. When the Detroit Tigers’ Zach ...