The Angels came in 0-44 when trailing after eight innings.
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Houston also lost, so the Angels (56-50) remained three games behind the first-place Astros in the AL West. The Indians (49-57) had lost three consecutive games.
The Cleveland Indians are the bottom of the AL Central, and David Murphy was one of several veterans shipped out prior to the trade deadline. “But the last couple of innings, I didn’t quite execute them well enough and they found some holes”, Kluber said. “We’re getting good pitching but we have to win those games”. “You have to find a way when you’re facing tough pitchers and guys that throw the ball as well as Carrasco”. “But the most important thing for me was to get deep into the game and try to give us an opportunity to win”. “I’d have been just as happy with a hit”. Tribe pitching allowed just two Angels hits the entire game. 194 and has totaled 15 runs during a six-game slide that’s part of a 1-9 stretch. That’s an average of just 2.3, which won’t cut for any period of time.
McKenry hit Mayckol Gauipe’s 2-2 curveball into the left-field seats for his fourth home run of the season and the first walk-off hit in his career.
“Well, we were really grinding it this series”, he said.
Manager Terry Francona removed Carrasco from a scoreless game after nine innings and 100 pitches. Bedrosian knows his dad saw the end of the game, because he sent him proof – a photo that was taken at his other son’s house in Newnan, Georgia, holding up an index finger.
In the 10th, Adam Eaton singled and stole second base and advanced to third when catcher Curt Casali’s throw struck shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera in the ear, knocking him to the ground. Trout struck out. Pujols singled to center. Dav.
Gillaspie, acquired by the Angels from the Chicago White Sox in a cash deal on July 24 after third baseman David Freese broke a finger, connected after a leadoff single by Erick Aybar.
Danny Salazar (9-6, 3.47 ERA) takes the ball for the Indians this afternoon while the Angels counter with Hector Santiago and he is 7-5 on the campaign with a 2.70 ERA. “They hit the ball across the field and got their basehits”, he said. The Angels used six different pitchers on Tuesday, and the Indians could not do damage against any of them until Cam Bedrosian gave up the home run to Urshela. Santiago (LHP) will be on the hill against the Indians, who have a inferior 13-23 record against left-handed starting pitchers.
CHICAGO (AP) – Avisail Garcia hit a three-run homer in Chicago’s five-run first inning and had a bases-loaded walk in the 10th to lift the White Sox past Tampa Bay. He allowed one hit, one walk and three baserunners.
Indians seventh. Raburn homered to center on a 2-2 count.
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“I was just trying to get that out right there because I didn’t want to face Trout in that situation, and I got it done”, Carrasco said.
