He is 3-2 with a 3.22 ERA in eight career games (seven starts) versus the White Sox, including a victory at Chicago on May 24 in which he allowed two runs and five hits over eight innings.
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The opener against the White Sox will start a string of 13 straight April games against American League Central Division foes, as they follow the Chicago series with three contests against the Detroit Tigers before heading to Minnesota for a four-game set with the Twins and three games against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Indians RHP Trevor Bauer and White Sox LHP Jose Quintana get the ball Tuesday night.
Rodon allowed nine hits and walked three as the Indians took a 6-1 lead in the sixth inning.
The Chicago White Sox held their annual Bark at the Park event at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois, on Tuesday, September 13 – and the Major League Baseball team set a world record for the most dogs at a sporting event. Tomlin is 11-8 with a 4.85 ERA and he will look to improve on those numbers here down the stretch while Rodon is 7-8 with a 3.80 mark and will use his last handful of starts to earn himself a place in the rotation next season.
Tomlin (12-8) allowed one run on four hits and walked none as he ended a personal five-game losing streak that led to the right-hander being demoted to the bullpen after his last start on August 30.
PITCHING MATCHUP: Indians RH Josh Tomlin (11-8, 4.85 ERA) vs. “Fortunately, it’s a four-game series and we can still win it”. Ramirez and Guyer singled and Rodon’s first-pitch changeup to Coco Crisp caught too much of the plate and he ripped it for a three-run homer.
“I feel like I didn’t deserve to have that happen”, said a frustrated Bauer, who was penciled in to start the third game of the playoffs.
“We received a tremendous turnout for our four-legged friends tonight”, Brooks Boyer, White Sox senior VP of Sales and Marketing, said in a statement Tuesday night. Ramirez then scored on Brandon Guyer’s RBI single to left field to give the Indians a 3-1 lead.
“He’s looking. a little bit better, but it’s still a little bit of a tweak where he can’t play”, Chicago manager Robin Ventura said Wednesday. “And it falls on the hitters’ shoulders to score some runs for him”.
The Indians are 7-3 in their last 10 during game 4 of a series and 3-8 in their last 11 road games.
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The Indians will send rookie right-hander Mike Clevinger (2-2, 5.01 ERA) to the mound for the eighth start of his career.
