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• Guardians’ Tanner Bibee Scratched From Opening Day Start Due To Illness
The Guardians announced Thursday that right-hander Tanner Bibee has been scratched from his scheduled Opening Day start due to acute gastroenteritis (or, the stomach flu). Cleveland will give the nod to fellow right-hander Ben Lively in his place. It’s an unfortunate development for the recently extended Bibee, who is just days removed from signing a…...2025
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• Guardians series preview: Let’s get it started!

Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Royals and Guardians are both looking to return to the post-season. Observers around baseball thumbed their nose at the American League Central at the outset of the season, figuring the small market clubs would not be able to keep pace with the high-spending coastal teams. But four of the five Central teams ended up in the post-season, including the Guardians ...2025
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• Tanner Bibee scratched from Guardians' Opening Day start with food poisoning just days after signing extension

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• Brewers take down Guardians with another offensive outpour, win 8-2 to extend win streak to seven

Curt Hogg / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Big Woo made his return to the mound and Sal Frelick homered in the win Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers just keep winning in Arizona, as they extended their spring training win streak to seven games and improved to 13-9 overall with an 8-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians. The big story of the day was the return of Brandon Woodruff, who ma...2025
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• Colorado Rockies spring training game no. 9 thread: Kyle Freeland vs. Ben Lively

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Can the Rockies win their 4th in a row? Fresh off of a tie against the Giants and three straight wins against the White Sox, Royals and Dodgers, the Rockies are back in Cactus League action today as they will take on Cleveland in Goodyear, Ariz. The Rockies (6-1-1) will start a very young starting lineup featuring only three veterans in ...2025
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• The state of the AL Central

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Four teams with a chance...to beat up on the White Sox For years the constant refrain about the AL Central was that it was too weak and winning it was easy enough that all the teams in it should be trying to take advantage. In 2024 we saw the script flip a bit and three central teams made the playoffs with another just missing. Granted, they all got to ...2025
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• Braves News: Chris Sale, Matt Olson named Gold Glove finalists, Yankees lead ALCS 2-0, and more

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. The beginning of the offseason means that award season is officially ramping up, and the Atlanta Braves announced that they have two Gold Glove finalists in Chris Sale and Matt Olson. #Braves pitcher Chris Sale and first baseman Matt Olson are Gold Glove finalists. There are three finalists at each pos...2024
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• Alex Cobb Replaced By Ben Lively On Guardians’ ALCS Roster
Major League Baseball announced that it has approved a roster change for the Guardians, with right-hander Alex Cobb replaced by fellow righty Ben Lively. MLB didn’t announce the specific nature of Cobb’s injury but the Guards announced it as an acute left low back strain. Per MLB playoff roster rules, a player removed with an…...2024
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend

Kyle Schwarber should lead off for the Phillies for their third straight postseason | Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images There’s a lot of David and Goliath in these matchups They don’t call it the Wild Card for nothing, folks. It’s’ already been a few ridiculous days of baseball. It started with the Mets bonkers comeback against Atlanta in the first game of a doubleheader to make the post...2024
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• Guardians' Lively OK after exiting with contusion
Guardians right-hander Ben Lively appeared to have avoided a major injury after taking a comebacker off his right thigh, resulting in a contusion....2024
• Cub Tracks’ we can still get meatloaf

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cubs drop the first of three but they can still win the series. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ te...2024
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Guardians series preview

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs continue their ride through the AL Central. The Guardians have been scuffling lately, though they did defeat the Twins Saturday and Sunday after a seven-game losing streak. The Cubs have played three games since last Wednesday (including Wednesday). In that same time frame, Cleveland has played six, including a pair of dobulehe...2024
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• Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of American League contenders

Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images How do the Royals stack up? The second half of the season begins today and the Royals find themselves in the hunt. The rest of the season will be a 60+ game sprint to the end with teams jostling for position to be one of the six teams in each league to earn an invitation to post-season action. The Royals certainly have their strengths...2024
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• Guardians' Lively 'good to go' after injury scare

Guardians starting pitcher Ben Lively, who underwent tests after leaving Saturday's game with some tightness, is "good to go" for his next start....2024

• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes

Welcome, Burkey Boy. | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Sean Burke debuts his arm in the majors and experiences the classic lack of South Side offense Author’s note: For tonight’s game coverage, I’ll be abandoning illeism, opting instead for a personal story due to the circumstances of late-season Chris Getz exhaustion and burnout. If you dislike that, maybe you should skip this one altogether. T...2024
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"Update: Bibee has been scratched from the start today and Ben Lively will start."

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"Shōta Imanaga will start the series opener Monday in Cleveland and the Guardians will counter with righthander Ben Lively."

2023
"Ben Lively has been mentioned as a possible Reds starter for Game 2."

2022
"The Reds have signed right-hander Ben Lively to a minor league deal."

2019
"Righty Ben Lively will return to the Korea Baseball Organization for another run with the Samsung Lions, the team announced and Yonhap News reports."

2018
"Ben Lively is making a very good case to join -- and stay in -- the Philadelphia rotation in 2018."

2017
"Pitcher Ben Lively homered and drove in four runs, also pitching seven effective innings in a 9-1 win over the Mets."

2016
"Crawford (SS) Nick Williams (OF) Jake Thompson (RHP) Franklyn Kilome (RHP) Roman Quinn (OF) Cornelius Randolph (OF) Mark Appel (RHP) Jorge Alfaro (C) Andrew Knapp (C) Ben Lively (RHP) Then there are five “just interesting” players: Carlos Tocci (OF) Deivi Grullon (C) Adonis Medina (RHP) Zach Eflin (RHP) Scott Kingery (2B) It’s a deep read with good observations all of mentioned players."

2015
"The Phillies swapped outfielder Marlon Byrd and $4MM to the Reds for pitching prospect Ben Lively."

2014
"The Reds have agreed to a deal for Phillies outfielder Marlon Byrd, with righty Ben Lively heading east, FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal tweets."

• Guardians series preview: Let’s get it started!
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• MLB Playoffs: Underdog Guardians look to knock out big, bad Yankees

The Yankees’ championship drought is a feast compared to the Guardians’. Who will get a chance to snap it? The Championship Series is upon us and only four teams remain from the 30 who began the MLB season back in March. October winnowed the field to 12 playoff teams, the Wild Card round cut out four more, and now, the New York Yankees, Cleveland Guardians, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Dodgers a...2024
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes
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• Cub Tracks’ we can still get meatloaf
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• White Sox 3, Guardians 2: That’s two in a row, baby

With another great start, Erick Fedde is solidifying his role as ace of the staff. | Griffin Quinn/Getty Images Erick Fedde tosses a gem and improves to 3-0 on the season We’re finally .500! Well, that’s a bit of a stretch, but technically, the White Sox ARE 4-4 over their last eight games. Let’s go! Erick Fedde was simply fantastic tonight. He earned his third victory and third qualit...2024
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• Gamethread: Guardians at White Sox

Erick Fedde didn’t make it through five innings the last time out, so let’s hope tonight’s story has a different ending. | Joe Puetz/Getty Images Tonight, it’s a showdown between the best and the worst The White Sox take on the first-place AL Central Cleveland Guardians this evening at Guaranteed Rate Field. It’s good against bad, rising stars vs. aging veterans. Who will come out victori...2024
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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase and the Guardians, part 1

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look at Heroes and Goats for the first half of the season. Emmanuel Clase was awarded the AL Reliever of the Year for 2024 after helping the Guardians reach the playoffs. Clase pitched in 74 games and allowed only 10 runs, five earned, in 74⅓ innings. This was a particularly and uniquely impressive season. He matched those 10 runs allowe...2024
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• Guardians' Lively OK after exiting with contusion
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• Seth’s stellar start stems skid, series stopper salvaged 4-1

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Pham’s homer powered the offense. Seth Lugo threw a seven-inning gem and Tommy Pham delivered the decisive blow with his first homer for the Royals as Kansas City defeated the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 tonight. The first inning featured a couple baserunners but not result. In the top of the second, MJ Melendez turned a single into a double when he got caught in...2024
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• Game One Hundred and Forty-One: Cleveland Guardians at Kansas City Royals

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Could really use a win here. The Kansas City Royals will attempt to snap an L7 tonight and avoid a sweep as they take on the Cleveland Guardians in the final game of this three-game set at Kauffman Stadium. Seth Lugo will start for Kansas City. It seemed like Lugo might have been running out of gas having blown past his career high in innings pitched, but he ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 119

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Justin Steele provided lots of WPA despite not having his best stuff. Hi there! It’s your substitute Heroes and Goats writer again. As noted last week, Thomas Smith is away and will return for the final game of the Blue Jays series next weekend. In his stead, I’m just going to post the chart for the game, the three heroes and three goats, and the Player...2024
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• Cubs 3, White Sox 1: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs went to the South Side of Chicago and did what they needed to do. The Cubs defeated the White Sox 3-1 Saturday night. It wasn’t pretty much of the time, but the team did what they came for in this series — a sweep, and thus a sweep of the season series against their crosstown rivals for the first time since 2013. The Sox scor...2024
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• What’s been wrong with Dansby Swanson all year, and can it be fixed?

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images The Cubs shortstop has had an awful year at the plate. Dansby Swanson’s first Cubs season was a success. He posted 4.8 bWAR and won a Gold Glove, and was at least league-average at the plate with a 100 OPS+ and 104 wRC+. He hit 22 home runs, scored 80 and drove in 81. This year has been a disaster for Swanson at the plate. He comes into the break with a .632 O...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: Underdog Guardians look to knock out big, bad Yankees
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes
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• A Bitter Loss After a Sweet Longo Homecoming: Rays 2, Guardians 4

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Rays fall short after giving up two home runs and going 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position At least we got to hear those electric violins again. Before the game, there was an emotional return to Tropicana Field. Former Tampa Bay Rays star Evan Longoria, the franchise’s all-time leader in multiple statistical categories, threw out the ceremonial fi...2024
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• Cub Tracks strikes back
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs pile it on again and force the issue. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight for maxi...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 106
Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs go down fighting in a 6-5 loss to the Reds. Look, I’m not blowing smoke at anyone. Losing two straight and be back at .500 after the mad dash to get above water sucks. Marcus Stroman’s struggles continuing is awful. The situation with Seiya Suzuki is maddening. Was anything likely to change the ninth inning? Would it be nice if Cody Bellinger had g...2023
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Reds series preview
Photo by Nick Wosika/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here we go. It sounds like hype, but this really is a big, important series, which should tell us quite a bit about where both the Cubs and Reds are headed for the rest of the year. After this set, the teams will meet one more time, four games in Cincinnati at the beginning of September. That one includes a doubleheader which will happe...2023
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• Lights-out pitching gives Brewers 3-0 win over Reds
Albert Cesare / The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK The win also puts the Brewers back into sole possession of first in the NL Central Part of the identity of the 2023 Milwaukee Brewers has been both their pitching and their lack of hitting. So many times, the Brewers' pitching staff has created opportunities for the win, but the offense would fall just short of creating a big enough lead. In...2023
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• Reds series preview: When playing the kids works
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images It’s the Elly de la Cruz show now. A small-market team in the Midwest lost 100 games last year, with one of the worst offenses and pitching staffs in the league. Rather than upgrade through free agency, they stood pat, and the owner was accused of being cheap for sitting on his hands. And yet this year, the team is playing well, flirting with .500, just a ...2023
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• d'Arnaud drives in lone run against Phillies
On the night of J.P. Crawford's debut, it was another Phillies' rookie who made the most significant impact at Citi Field. Pitcher Ben Lively homered and drove in four runs, also pitching seven effective innings in a 9-1 win over the Mets....2017
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• Lively homers to lead Phils in rout of Mets
On the night of J.P. Crawford's debut, it was another Phillies' rookie who made the most significant impact at Citi Field. Pitcher Ben Lively homered and drove in four runs, also pitching seven effective innings in a 9-1 win over the Mets....2017
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• Cubs 6, Reds 2: Cody Bellinger, Seiya Suzuki and Ian Happ go deep

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images A Belli Bomb and two other homers helped lead the Cubs to victory. SITE NOTE: Since this game went so quickly, I’m posting a separate recap. There will be a preview for Game 2 that will post at 4:30 p.m. CT. The Cubs began their double dip in Cincinnati on a good note, defeating the Reds 6-2 on the strength of homers by Cody Bellinger, Ian Happ and Seiya S...2023
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• Lively goes 6 innings, drives in 2 to beat Fish
Rookie sensation Rhys Hoskins has been the Phillies' top story in August. But on the final day of the month, Ben Lively made the biggest impact of the night. The right-hander allowed two runs in six innings and drove in two on the go-ahead single as Philadelphia edged Miami, 3-2, on Thursday at Marlins Park....2017
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• Giants stung in 8th, fall to Phillies
Pedro Florimon delivered the biggest hit of the Phillies' three-run seventh Sunday, squeaking a two-run single to right field off Giants reliever Hunter Strickland, giving the Phillies back-to-back wins to cap their West Coast road trip. Starter Ben Lively delivered six innings of two-run ball while Jorge Alfaro brought home the game-tying run to help the Phillies knock off the Giants, 5-2....2017
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• Reds To Acquire Marlon Byrd
The Reds have agreed to a deal for Phillies outfielder Marlon Byrd, with righty Ben Lively heading east, FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal tweets. Rosenthal also notes that the Reds will receive a significant among of money in the deal to … ...2014
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• Jose Barrero hits grand slam, Reds withstand Red Sox rally
Jose Barrero hit a grand slam and Ben Lively pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings to help the Cincinnati Reds pick...2023
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• Cubs 3, White Sox 1: Takin’ care of business
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• Guardians’ Tanner Bibee Scratched From Opening Day Start Due To Illness
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• Brewers take down Guardians with another offensive outpour, win 8-2 to extend win streak to seven
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• Colorado Rockies spring training game no. 9 thread: Kyle Freeland vs. Ben Lively
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• The state of the AL Central
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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase and the Guardians, part 1
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• Braves News: Chris Sale, Matt Olson named Gold Glove finalists, Yankees lead ALCS 2-0, and more
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• Alex Cobb Replaced By Ben Lively On Guardians’ ALCS Roster
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• MLB Playoffs: Underdog Guardians look to knock out big, bad Yankees
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• Guardians' Lively left off ALDS roster vs. Tigers
Ben Lively was left off Cleveland's roster for the AL Division Series against Detroit despite being an invaluable addition to the Guardians' starting rotation this season....2024

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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes
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• Ten Royals minor leaguers become eligible for free agency

Jorge Bonifacio is raking, with four multi-hit games this week. | Minda Haas Kuhlmann Juan Carlos Negret and Jorge Bonifacio are among the minor league free agnets Ten Royals became minor league free agents this week, including former Royals outfielder Jorge Bonifacio. Minor leaguers can become eligible for free agency if they are not added to a 40-man roster after six full minor league se...2023
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