Not much went right for the Guardians on their six game road trip last week. Their bullpen blew game after game. The bats went silent. The starting pitchers didn’t go deep into games.
After cutting their deficit in the Wild Card chase to just 1/2 games, they’re now five games back in the Wild Card race and clinging onto the faintest postseason hopes.
But they’ve got a chance to turn all of that around today with Tanner Bibee on the mound at home against the Rays. When the Guardians gave Bibee his five-year extension in the spring, they did it with the expectation that he’d be the stopper in situations like this.