A Cleveland Guardians reliever made history on Wednesday - and it wasn't Emmanuel Clase.
The Cleveland Guardians beat the Minnesota Twins, 5-4, on Wednesday night at Progressive Field. With the win, they are 6.0 games ahead in the American League Central and they are also just 1.5 games back of the New York Yankees for the best record in the American League. Whoever claims that tile will have homefield advantage throughout the MLB playoffs.
In the win, Guardians reliever Cade Smith made some special history for Canadian-born players. He tossed 1.1 scoreless innings, striking out two.The 25-year-old Smith has been a revelation for Cleveland, pairing with Emmanuel Clase to make up a dominant back-end of the bullpen. Furthermore, his contributions have been huge considering that top reliever Trevor Stephan has missed the entire season with Tommy John surgery.
Smith is 6-1 this season with a 1.96 ERA. Those 100 strikeouts have come in 73.1 innings. He's appeared in 72 games. This is his first season in the big leagues. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he played his college ball at Hawaii and was drafted by the Twins in the 16th round of the 2017 draft.and Twins will finish out their series on Thursday afternoon with first pitch coming at 1:10 p.m. ET. Simeon Woods-Richardson pitches against Joey Cantillo.
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