In a series where everything needed to go right for the Cleveland Guardians, everything seemed to go wrong. It’s hard to blame it on any one thing, honestly, but the series came down to defensive miscues and poor situational hitting.

However, it’s not entirely fair to blame it on just those two things. Our two partners in crime, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, bear a significant amount of blame today . Hunter Gaddis has no business pitching in three straight playoff games, and if you have Clase, he probably doesn’t, or at the very least, you would have gone to Cade Smith when Erik Sabrowski got into trouble.

In Game Three of the playoffs, you expected Ortiz to be on the bump. He’s a heavy strikeout pitcher, and you’d have more faith in him to go deeper into his start, instead of 2+ inni

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