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Cleveland Guardians Spring Training Prospect Report: 3/16/26

Bazzana impresses with glove; Pallette continues to shine

Arthur Kinney

Mar 17

SCOREBOARD

Chicago Cubs 5, Cleveland Guardians 2 (Statcast)

STARTERS

Petey Halpin (LF): 0-3, 2 K, 1 Outfield Assist - While Halpin was, like most of the Guardians last night, impressive at the plate, he did make a spectacular catch that started an inning-ending double play that got the Guardians out of a rapidly-spiraling opening frame.

Juan Brito (2B): 0-3, 2 K - Not Brito’s greatest evening of camp, either at the plate or in the field.

Milan Tolentino (SS): 1-3, 1 2B - Tolentino’s first ever major league Spring double (a 410-foot, 102.5 blast that looks more like a homer on the Statcast leaderboard) was one of the few offensive highlights for the Guards on St. Patrick’s Eve.

NOTABLE RESERVES

Travis Bazzana (2B): 0-0, 1 BB - The story of Bazzana’s performance on the day he was told he would open the season at the Corner of Neil and Nationwide rather than Carnegie and Ontario was the pair of impressive defensive plays he made - one in each of the pair of innings he played

Juan Benjamin (3B): 1-1, 1 HR, 1 RBI - Benjamin provided some late-game excitement with his first big league exhibition extra-base hit - a solo shot to right field (94.9 MPH exit velo, no distance listed on Statcast).

RELIEVER

Peyton Pallette: 2 IP, 3 K - Palette has now thrown six shutout frames this Spring, recording over half of his outs (10 of 18) via strikeout. While last night’s outing was aided by a pair of spectacular defensive plays, it was nonetheless another impressive effort by the Rule 5 draftee. While his pitch mix remained fastball-centric (13 of 24), he also had great success with his 86 MPH slider, getting a strike all seven times he used it on Monday night.

RESERVES

Ryan Cesarini (LF): 0-1

Jake Fox (CF): 0-1

Anthony Martinez (1B): 0-1

Joe Lampe (RF): 0-1

Dauri Fernandez (SS): 0-1

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BOXSCORE GUARDIANS VS REDS

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Guardians score 5 in 8th to come-from-behind and beat Reds, 8-6

Published: Mar. 18, 2026, 12:22 a.m.

By Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Guardians rallied for five runs in the eighth inning Tuesday night to beat the Reds, 8-6, at Goodyear Ballpark.

Minor League catcher Reiner Herrera’s two-run triple was the big hit of the inning, giving the Guardians an 6-5 lead against veteran reliever Brock Burke. Herrera played 43 games for Cleveland’s Arizona Complex League team last season.

Angel Martinez, with the Guardians trailing, 5-3, started the rally with a leadoff single. Petey Halpin walked and Nolan Jones singled to score Martinez to make it 5-4. Herrera’s triple past first base delivered Halpin and Jones for the lead.

CJ Kayfus and Milan Tolentino walked to load the bases. Jacob Cozart scored Herrera with a sacrifice fly. Juan Brito followed with a grounder to third as Kayfus, running on contact, scored just ahead of the throw home for an 8-5 lead.

Magnus Ellerts pitched the ninth for the save despite allowing a leadoff homer to Alfredo Alcantara.

The errors by third baseman Daniel Schneemann and shortstop Gabriel Arias put a damper on decent pitching performances by Kolby Allard and Shawn Armstrong.

Allard, making his first start of the spring, opened the game with four straight outs, the last three coming on strikeouts. Spencer Steer, with one out in the second, reached when Arias couldn’t handle his grounder to the hole at short. Noelvi Marte followed with a 425-foot homer to left for a 2-0 lead.

Rhys Hoskins, with his third homer of the season, put Cleveland back in the game with a two-out drive in the fourth to make it 2-1.

The Guardians added two more runs in the fifth on a two-run double by Travis Bazzana for a 3-2 lead off lefty Nick Lodolo.

The Reds came right back in the fifth to take a 4-3 lead on Elly De La Cruz’s bases-loaded, two-run single off Codi Heuer.Armstrong started the inning, but Schneemann’s error on a Will Banfield grounder extended it, allowing McClain to pop up to short before De La Cruz’s single.

Schneemann was playing his first game since Friday. He missed the last four games with a sprained right ankle.

The Guardians are 13-11-1 this spring. The Reds are 12-12.

Allard allowed two runs, one earned, in three innings. He struck out five, allowed one hit and didn’t walk a batter.

Trevor Stephan, Cade Smith and Erik Sabrowski combined for 2 2/3 scoreless innings. The win went to Smith.

The Guardians and Reds finished with seven hits each.

Next

The Guardians are off Wednesday, their third and final off day of the spring. The Guardians will resume the Cactus League season on Thursday against the Royals at Goodyear Ballpark at 4:10 p.m. The Guardians prospects, meanwhile, will play the Angels prospects at Tempe Diablo Stadium at 2 p.m. in MLB’s Spring Breakout series.

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