After having to postpone due to air quality concerns, the Guardians and Pirates are set to play a doubleheader July 18, if the weather cooperates.

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The Guardians beat the Twins and Joe Ryan 13-4 and that feels good. You can read the recap and watch the highlights of the seven home runs here. Let’s hope this is the beginning of something new. The injury updates are that Angel Martinez is progressing nicely and José is day-to-day.

Guardians beat the Rangers. The Guardians took down the Rangers 9-4. Austin Hedges had a two-run home run and Chase DeLauter went 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored. B

Pirates vs. Guardians live score, play-by-play, stats and highlights for the July 19 MLB game on Bleacher Report.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The latest episode of the Cleveland Baseball Talk Podcast centers on one of the strangest and most costly mistakes of the Guardians’ season: rookie outfielder Cooper Ingle catching the second out of the seventh inning against Texas and mistakenly tossing the ball into the left-field seats believing it was the third out.

Now that the Guardians are halfway through their season, positional grades can be given out based on their overall performances.

Paul Skenes allowed one run and struck out eight in seven innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Cleveland Guardians 7-1.