Trisa mckenzie and Aaron Sali are continuing their rehab out
in Arizona. Mike Zunino was scratched due to the
neck stiffness and Emmanuel Clas velocity is back but it
came at a cost. I'm Mandy Bell and this
is the beat report. All is trending in the
right direction for both mckenzie and Sali was throwing a
simulated game on Saturday and the team was just waiting
to hear how he handled this next step. The
Guardians haven't placed any specific timetables yet on sale's return
, but assuming this all goes, well, it
seems likely that it could be soon. Mckenzie threw
a life bullpen out in Arizona and will likely throw
there one more time before he leaves on the 16
to attend his brother's graduation. After that, he'll
stop back in Cleveland quickly before he finds out if
he'll be sent to Akron or Columbus on his rehab
assignment. As of now, it seems like he's
still on pace to return from the injured list.
On May 29 the Guardians had a scratch catcher Mike
Zunino from the line up about an hour before first
pitch on Friday due to neck stiffness. Guardians manager
Terry Francona said that Zunino took a foul tip off
of his mask the other night and has been feeling
it ever since the hope was that Zunino would come
in on Friday and it would loosen up during his
pregame routine. But when it didn't, the team
decided to put Cam Gallagher in the lineup instead,
although Francona didn't seem too concerned about Sunni's status,
he did specify that he would probably be down for
a day or two when the radar gun flashed triple
digits on Friday night, it was almost like a
collective sigh of relief from the Guardian's fan base.
Emmanuel Cross has averaged around 96 to 98 MPH with
his cutter all year, which is still fast in
reality, but not quite the same as the 100
mile per hour Cross that we saw all last season
. But on a night when he had his best
stuff, he averaged 100.1 MPH on the cutter and
topped out at 100.9, he also blew his fourth
save of the season all last year. He only
had four blown saves. So, yes, if
he didn't have his velocity back, maybe it would
be time to start pressing that panic button a little
bit wondering what's going wrong. But now that he
shown that his stuff is coming back, maybe he'll
be able to settle in on the mound moving forward
. That'll do it for the Beat report for all
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