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2024 Guardians Spring Training Players Of The Game: Game 8

Cleveland's Angel Martínez, Daniel Schneemann, Emmanuel Clase, and Nick Sandlin each had a productive performance in the team's 13-12 loss to the Kansas City Royals.
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2024 Guardians Spring Training Players Of The Game: Game 8
2024 Guardians Spring Training Players Of The Game: Game 8

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The Cleveland Guardians suffered their sixth 2024 Cactus League loss with a 13-12 defeat to the Kansas City Royals yesterday afternoon.

With 90 players representing the Guardians during spring training (40-man roster, 22 non-roster invitees, and 28 depth camp players), each game’s roster will vary.

Based on Cleveland’s roster for yesterday’s game and their performances in the contest, here are four Players of the Game.

Angel Martínez, 2B

Cleveland’s sixth-ranked prospect continued his impressive spring with another strong game.

The 22-year-old went a perfect 2-for-2 at the plate with a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the first inning, a two-out, game-tying solo home run in the bottom of the third inning, and a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Martínez is hitting .636 with seven hits, one double, two home runs, five RBI, and a 1.888 OPS in six games so far this spring.

Daniel Schneemann, 3B

The 27-year-old finished the game with three RBI, which tied Martínez for a team-high.

Schneemann drove in all three runs with a three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning, his first home run of the spring.

Emmanuel Clase, RHP

The Guardians’ closer pitched his second consecutive scoreless frame to begin his spring.

Clase pitched a scoreless top of the third inning, allowing two hits and no walks, and throwing a pair of strikeouts.

Nick Sandlin, RHP

The right-hander, who made a career-high 61 relief appearances for Cleveland last season, pitched the top of the eighth inning for the Guardians.

Sandlin ended up facing five batters, allowing a leadoff double, an unearned run, and one walk.

Up next, Cleveland will play a pair of split-squad games against the San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs today at 3:05 p.m. EST.

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Logan Potosky
LOGAN POTOSKY

Logan Potosky is an aspiring play-by-play sports broadcaster who, to date, has called approximately 350+ hours of professional, college, and high school sporting events. He is currently the Play-by-Play Broadcaster for the Lake County Captains, the High-A Affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians. He graduated from John Carroll University in May of 2023 with a degree in Communication, with a concentration in Digital Media, and a minor in Entrepreneurship.

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