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The Guardians begin the last 2 1/2 months of the season Friday night when they play the Padres at Progressive Field.Getty Images

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CLEVEL,AND, Ohio -- On the last trip before the All-Star break, the Guardians were literally and figurately limping. A walk by their locker room after any of those seven games -- five of which they lost -- revealed several players moving slowly with different body parts wrapped in ice packs.

The break must have seemed like an oasis for them. Even the five players they sent to the All-Star Game had to consider that hectic interlude a chance to exhale.

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