Will Brennan

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William Daniel Brennan

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Biographical Information[edit]

Outfielder Will Brennan is not to be confused with 1980s P William Brennan or with umpire Bill Brennan. He was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 8th round of the 2019 amateur draft out of Kansas State University, but by the time he made his major league debut late in the 2022 season, the Indians had become the Cleveland Guardians. He hit .357 in 11 games in his late-season call-up and impressed enough to be added to the Guardians' postseason roster. He started Game 2 of the Wild Card Series against the Tampa Bay Rays on October 8th at DH and went 1 for 5 in the 15-inning marathon that ended in a 1-0 Cleveland win. he then appeared in four of the five games of Cleveland's loss to the New York Yankees in the Division Series going 1 for 6, his lone hit coming as a pinch-hitter in Game 3, when he also drove in a run.

He started the 2023 season with the Guardians as the team's regular right fielder and hit well enough to keep his job. On June 9th, he ended an epic battle with the Houston Astros with the first walk-off hit of his career, a single to left that drove in the game-ending run in the 14th inning in a 10-9 win. The Guardians set a record by coming back from a deficit no less than five times from the 7th inning on, and it was only the second major league game to go that many innings since the adoption of the tiebreaker rule during the 2020 season.

Further Reading[edit]

  • Mandy Bell: "The three catalysts in Guardians' 14-inning, marathon win: Brennan hits first career walk-off as Friday ties longest game of the season", mlb.com, June 10, 2023. [1]
  • Pete Grathoff (The Kansas City Star): "Former Blue Valley High School star recalls journey from KC to Cleveland Guardians", Yahoo! News, June 28, 2023. [2]

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