The Yankees and Guardians open a three-game series Monday night at Progressive Field, with a full set of scheduled pitching matchups already in place for all three games. Gavin Williams is set to face Will Warren in the opener, Slade Cecconi is lined up against Gerrit Cole on Tuesday and Parker Messick is scheduled to oppose Carlos Rodón on Wednesday.
That makes this Yankees Vs Guardians series an immediate draw for fans looking ahead to the week, especially with Monday’s first pitch set for 6:40 p.m., Tuesday’s game at 1:10 p.m. and Wednesday’s finale following the same midweek pace. Guardians.TV will carry the series, Fox Sports 1 will televise Monday’s game and TBS will show Tuesday’s matchup, while WTAM/1100, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network will handle the radio broadcasts.
The matchup matters because these teams arrive with different momentum and plenty of recent history. The Yankees are 38-26 and have won seven of their last 11 games, while the Guardians are 37-30 after finishing a six-game trip at 3-3 with Sunday’s 10-0 loss to Texas. Cleveland also opened that trip by going 2-1 against New York, and the season series already sits at 2-1 in the Guardians’ favor.
José Ramírez is one reason the earlier meetings still linger. He went 7 for 13 at Yankee Stadium, and the Guardians won the second game of that series behind Williams over Cole. Two of the three games were decided by one run, which is part of why the matchup feels tighter than the broader numbers suggest.
Those broader numbers still matter, though. New York leads the all-time series 1,127-886, a reminder that the Yankees’ overall edge has long outlasted Cleveland’s current season advantage. Paul Goldschmidt also went 5 for 12 with four RBI last week against the Guardians, and the Yankees recently placed Aaron Judge and catcher Austin Wells on the injured list, joining Jasson Dominguez, Giancarlo Stanton, Angel Chivilli, Max Fried, Clarke Schmidt and Luis Gil there.
Cleveland has its own injury list to manage, with Erik Sabrowski and Gabriel Arias sidelined, so the series opener is only part of a larger week of roster sorting for both clubs. If the scheduled starters hold, the next test comes Tuesday with Cole against Cecconi, then Wednesday with Rodón against Messick, before the Guardians are off Thursday and Detroit arrives Friday night for another three-game set.
That leaves the clearest open question not about the schedule but about the names on it: whether all three probable pitchers actually take the ball as listed. For now, the Guardians and Yankees have given fans three games, three broadcast windows and enough familiar star power to make the next 72 hours feel like a measuring stick.
