Cleveland used a major league record nine pitchers in a shutout of nine or more innings since at least 1913.
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“Really where they beat us is that their offence has killed us”, Ausmus said. “They were better than us”.
The injury was the latest blow to the Indians, whose rotation is led by 2014 AL Cy Young Award victor Corey Kluber.
Right-hander Danny Salazar is expected to miss the rest of the season with a strained forearm.
Leftfielder Michael Brantley, who appeared in 11 games, had season-ending surgery on his right shoulder August 15. Carrasco, who’s the Indians’ second-best starter behind Cy Young contender Corey Kluber, threw 146 1/3 innings prior to his injury and registered a 3.32 ERA, 9.23 K/9, 2.09 BB/9 and 48.5 percent ground-ball rate. Manager Terry Francona revealed after the game what we all feared the moment the injury happened: Carlos Carrasco is done for the season. Carrasco missed six weeks earlier this season with a strained left hamstring, also sustained against the Tigers.
Detroit, which managed four hits off eight relievers, trails AL Central-leading Cleveland by eight games and remained three games back in the wild-card race.
PIRATES 10-7, REDS 4-3: Former Ray Sean Rodriguez homered in both games, and Andrew McCutchen had a bases-loaded single in a sweep for visiting Pittsburgh. Manship, Kyle Crockett, Cody Anderson, Zach McAllister, Perci Garner, Bryan Shaw and Cody Allen preceded Miller.
Game 2 of the series is Saturday at 4:10 p.m., as Carlos Carrasco opposes Justin Verlander. He had a four-start unbeaten streak snapped Sunday by yielding three runs on seven hits over five innings to Baltimore following a pair of seven-inning stints in which he allowed two runs in each.
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Though he didn’t threaten the scoreboard, John Adams’ drum, or a lunchtime stroll through the left field plaza this time, it seems a good bet that his fifth inning bomb off Detroit starter Michael Fulmer left Progressive Field entirely and may have hit the Gateway parking structure on a couple of hops.
