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Kyle Manzardo hits grand slam in Guardians’ win

Kyle Manzardo

CLE 1st Baseman #9

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Kyle Manzardo hit a grand slam and walked as the Guardians edged the Reds 6-5 in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader.

Manzardo was 4-for-26 with no extra-base hits and an 11/0 K/BB with the bases loaded in his career before taking Chase Burns deep in the first inning today. The Guardians went on to lose the 4-0 lead, falling behind 5-4 in the fourth, but they manufactured single runs in the fifth and eighth to pull this one out. Manzardo is batting .211/.300/.367 with 12 homers in 340 plate appearances this season, and his strikeout rate has jumped from 25 percent last year to 32 percent right now. He came through today, but his short- and long-term future as a platoon starter should be very much in doubt.

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Guardians optioned 1B Kyle Manzardo to Triple-A Columbus.

Manzardo has been limited to mostly facing right-handed starters and the Guardians are going to roll with newly acquired Nathaniel Lowe in that role at first base for the final two months. The 26-year-old former top prospect heads back to the minors after hitting .215/.306/.378 with 13 homers and 39 RBI in 356 plate appearances over 102 games this season. He’s simply not a fantasy-relevant option at first base anymore.
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Kyle Manzardo is not in the Guardians’ starting lineup for Friday night’s tilt against the Diamondbacks.

The 26-year-old slugger will take a seat with left-hander Mitch Bratt toeing the slab for the Diamondbacks. Rhys Hoskins will start in his place at first base and bat cleanup for the Guardians on Friday evening in Cleveland.
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Kyle Manzardo went 1-for-3 with a home run, two RBI, and two walks in a 6-1 win over the Reds on Wednesday.

This was a big game for Manzardo who hasn’t had many of those so far this season. He did well to sit back and let Brady Singer implode in what became a four-run fifth inning by drawing the first of two bases loaded walks. Then, he hit a long home run in the seventh that helped lengthen the Guardians’ lead. At 425 feet, it was his second longest homer on the season and his second blast in three games. Manzardo’s starting spot may be tenuous with the trade deadline coming up and his disappointing .681 OPS on the season, but there’s a chance the Guardians look to upgrade different parts of the roster and leave first base to him.
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Kyle Manzardo went 0-for-3 against the Pirates on Sunday.

Manzardo was hitless again on Sunday, going 0-for-3. In three games since the All-Star break, he’s 0-for-9 with five strikeouts. He’s yet to hit a home run in 14 games in July. Manzardo’s average is down to .203 with a .649 OPS. He’s not worth rostering in most fantasy leagues at this point.
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Kyle Manzardo went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run and three RBI against the Astros on Monday.

Manzardo’s home run was his ninth of the season. He hit a two-run shot off Spencer Arrighetti in the third inning. It’s his second home run in the last three games. Manzardo is now 14-for-47 (.297) with four home runs and nine RBI in 15 games in June. He’s worth consideration in most fantasy leagues given his recent production and more opposing right-handed starting pitchers on the Guardians’ schedule next week.
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Kyle Manzardo went 3-for-4 with a solo home run and two doubles as the Guardians defeated the Yankees on Wednesday night.

Manzardo’s homer was his seventh of the year and second in as many days. He took Gerrit Cole deep in the second inning, the first long ball Cole had allowed in three starts since returning from Tommy John surgery. Manzardo has finally received some consistent playing time, primarily hitting cleanup against opposing righties. Cleveland has one more game in the Bronx before visiting Texas for a three-game weekend series.
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Kyle Manzardo went 1-for-1 with a solo home run on Friday against the Phillies.

Manzardo was the unlikely hero in a game where Cristopher Sánchez and Gavin Williams each tossed eight scoreless innings. Well, after Sánchez came out, Manzardo pinch-hit for Rhys Hoskins in the ninth and launched a first pitch home run off Jhoan Duran to put the Guardians up. It’s been a trying season overall for Manzardo – this was just his fifth home run to go along with a .228 batting average – but maybe this clutch shot can get him going.
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Kyle Manzardo clubbed two homers in Sunday’s 10-3 victory over the Reds.

The homers were two of six that Cleveland hit in the contest. Manzardo’s first one was a titanic two-run blast against Brady Singer in the third inning, and he followed it up with a solo shot off left-hander Brock Burke. He got off to a very cold start in April, striking out in 35 percent of his plate appearances, but he’s been hitting better in May and should remain a middle-of-the-order presence against right-handers. Cleveland next heads out on a seven-game road trip to Detroit and Philadelphia.
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Kyle Manzardo went 1-for-1 with a three-run homer against the Athletics on Saturday.

Manzardo had gotten the day off with a lefty on the mound for the A’s. He entered the game as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning and took Luis Morales deep for a three-run blast. It was the second home run of the season for Manzardo. He’s struggled over the first month, slashing .187/.272/.275 with ten RBI across 103 plate appearances.
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Kyle Manzardo went 1-for-4 with a home run in Friday’s loss to the Braves.

Manzardo got the best of Braves starter Bryce Elder in the fourth inning, taking the first pitch he saw 468 feet to right field for his first homer of the season to tie the game at 1-1. It would be the only hit of the night for Manzardo, who entered the day hitting .086 and is still hoping to tap back into the form he saw last season when he hit 27 homers and drove in 70 runs. Manzardo’s struggles date back to spring training when he slashed .182/.237/.345 in 59 plate appearances, making him hard to trust until things begin to turn around.

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Cody Bradford (elbow) will start against the Giants on Wednesday.

Bradford will be making his first big-league start since late September of the 2024 campaign. The 28-year-old lefty missed most of the last two seasons recovering from Tommy John surgery. He’s unlikely to offer significant fantasy appeal over the final two months, but gets a nice matchup right out of the gate against a pedestrian Giants lineup.
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Ezequiel Duran went 3-for-5 with two doubles and four RBI to lead the Rangers to a 5-4 win over the Giants on Tuesday.

Duran drove in a run on a base hit in the first inning and swiped second base for his ninth steal of the season. He then drove in two more runs in the eighth on a double to break a tie game. Duran came through in a clutch moment again in the ninth, driving in the winning run with a walk-off double. The 27-year-old infielder is hitting .278/.329/.463 with 13 homers, 51 runs scored, and 63 RBI across 399 plate appearances.
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Osleivis Basabe went 1-for-5 with a two-run homer against the Rangers on Tuesday.

Basabe got the start at second base and drew the leadoff spot against the Rangers. He put the team on the board with a two-run homer off Chase Silseth to break the shutout, his third homer of the season in just 19 plate appearances. With Matt Chapman still sidelined with an abdomen injury and Casey Schmitt on the shelf after knee surgery, Basabe stands to see regular playing time in the infield for the Giants.
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Jacob Latz gave up two runs to blow a save against the Giants in the ninth inning on Tuesday.

Latz was summoned in the ninth inning with a two-run lead against the Giants on Tuesday. Oddly enough, it was the left-handed hitters that got to him. Latz gave up a base hit and walked a batter to put two runners on with one out. A wild pitch would put them in scoring position before Bryce Eldridge knocked a base hit to tie the game. Latz would retire the next two batters to get out of the inning with a tie. The Rangers would walk it off in the ninth, crediting Latz with a win despite his first blown save since May 13.
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MacKenzie Gore tossed six scoreless innings with four strikeouts in a no-decision against the Giants on Tuesday.

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Offense is a bonus from Torrens, but he came up big tonight with his three hard-hit balls and his third homer in 207 plate appearances. It was his first three-hit or four-RBI game of the season. He’d driven in four just five times previously: three times in 2021, once in 2022 and once last year.
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Sean Manaea pitched six innings of two-run ball to beat the Guardians on Tuesday.

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Joey Cantillo lost to the Mets after allowing five runs — two earned — in five innings on Tuesday.

The unearned runs came in the second after a Gabriel Arias error with two outs. Jared Young then walked, and Luis Torrens followed with a three-run homer. Cantillo fell to 8-7 with a 3.87 ERA. He’ll face the White Sox on Sunday.
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