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.