Bo Naylor waited 263 days for the moment he finally earned on Wednesday night.
Well, he’d probably been waiting 23 years to pick up his first major league hit—which he did with an eighth-inning single against the A’s—but the wait had to have been even more excruciating for the Guardians rookie after he failed to pick up a hit in five games after making his big league debut last October.
Naylor went hitless in his first three games this season, too, before finally coming through with a clutch knock against Oakland on Wednesday. The hit, which allowed Myles Straw to advance from first to third in a one-run game, elicited loud cheers from the Cleveland crowd. One teammate was more excited than everyone else, though: Naylor’s older brother, Josh.
