Baseball | 9/5/2024 9:45:00 AM

Erik Sabrowski, who played baseball for one season at Cloud County Community College, made his Major League Baseball debut for the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday, September 4 in a relief role against the Kansas City Royals.

The Edmonton, Alberta, Canada native pitched in Cleveland's 4-1 loss. Sabrowski, 26, came into the game in the seventh inning in relief of Pedro Avila. He ended the inning by striking out pinch hitter Yuli Guerriel for his first major league strikeout. Sabrowski ended up throwing 1.1 innings. He gave up just one hit, allowed no runs, didn't issue a walk, and struck out two batters.

The Guardians originally selected the contract of Sabrowski on August 28 after reliever Anthony Gose was designated for assignment. Prior to then, Sabrowski split the 2024 season between the Cleveland Guardians AAA team, the Columbus Clippers, and their AA farm team, the Akron RubberDucks. Across 48.2 innings, Sabrowski posted an 8-3 record with a 3.51 ERA and 79 strikeouts. In his minor league career, Sabrowski holds a 14-3 record with a 2.81 ERA and 148 strikeouts across 99.1 innings pitched.

Sabrowski was first drafted by the San Diego Padres with the 411th overall pick in the 14th round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. After undergoing two Tommy John surgeries on his left elbow, Sabrowski was later selected by the Guardians in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 Draft in 2021.

In his lone season at Cloud County, Sabrowski set a single-season record among T-Birds with 117 strikeouts on his way to being named the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference West Division Pitcher of the Year. Sabrowski appeared in 66 innings in 12 games at Cloud, posting a 7-2 record with a 3.14 ERA, including a 1.56 ERA in conference play. He also hit .355 and led all Cloud County players in home runs (11) and runs batted in (58). His other honors included First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Region 6, and KJCCC West honorable mention selection as a designated hitter.