News and Notes - Royals Avoid Sweep in Guardians Loss

Ben Lively ended the quality start streak for Cleveland starting pitchers. Lively had a relatively difficult outing, throwing 78 pitches in 4.0 innings of work. Lively allowed 4 runs on 7 hits and 1 walk. Tommy Pham dealt the bulk of the damage against Lively with a 3-run home run in the bottom of the 4th. Stephen Vogt turned to Eli Morgan to relieve Lively. Morgan pitched 2.0 innings, allowing only 1 hit and striking out 4. Pedro Avila was brought in to pitch the 7th, but was only able to get two outs before Erik Sabrowski made his major league debut.

Sabrowski was called up from AAA Columbus a week ago on August 28th. Sabrowski finished the final out of the 7th inning and pitched the 8th…