Guardians pitching locks down Astros offense in 4-1 win

All this talk of rookie hitters and struggling pitching — it seems like it’s been forever since the Guardians came out and just dominated a team with their pitching. Well, it finally happened tonight, as Cal and the Quantrills shut the Astros out for nine 8.2 innings of solid baseball.

When I think of Cal Quantrill’s attainable ceiling, I think of outings like he had tonight. Six innings, only four strikeouts but zero runs on three hits. Only a handful of Astros were able to hit the ball hard, and they were limited to one ball over 100 mph.

Quantrill was able to have his best outing of the season thanks primarily to his sinker and cutter, which combined accounted for 75 of his 85 pitches. It…