The Sox abused Trevor Bauer for a seven-run sixth inning to break a tie game, totaling seven hits and two walks.
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Carrasco (11-8) allowed four runs and eight hits in 3 2/3 innings, hours after the Indians announced All-Star starter Danny Salazar could miss the rest of the season with a forearm injury. “It wasn’t my best, although I felt real good”. Jose Ramirez ripped a triple to right, scoring Napoli and Santana, and Brandon Guyer followed with an RBI single.
“We’re going to lose games”, Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor said.
BREWERS 7, REDS 0: In Cincinnati, Junior Guerra pitched six shutout innings, Scooter Gennett and Domingo Santana homered, and Milwaukee beat Cincinnati to avoid a three-game sweep. Cleveland, which lost the first two games of the series, has a chance to earn a split in the finale Thursday. “You didn’t really expect the inning where he walks two guys and gets himself in trouble”.
Adam Eaton drove in the lone White Sox run with a triple in the third. Cleveland has fallen to 2-3 on its seven-game road trip and 4-5 in its last nine overall contests by dropping the first two games of the series by a combined 19-5 score.
It will be the first time in a while that Tomlin will be pitching for the Indians.
Crisp, who put the Indians up 6-1 with his homer in the sixth inning, went 2-for-4 with a double and the home run. He went 0-5 with an 11.48 ERA in August before being taken out of the rotation. Gomes is expected to come off the disabled list Friday. Tomlin said “the end result is on me” and added he needs to make quicker in-game adjustments. “He won’t be ready to catch every day, but having him back will be really nice”, manager Terry Francona said.
“Hopefully, the down time not just physically but mentally gave him a chance to think about things”, Francona said. EXCITED DOG.EXCITED HUMAN.This dog was apparently rooting for the away team.
White Sox: DH Justin Morneau (stiff neck) was out of the lineup for the second straight game.
In order to achieve the record, the White Sox needed a minimum of 1,000 dogs in attendance and the dogs had to remain in their outfield seats for a period of 10 consecutive minutes. Quintana (11-10, 3.13 ERA) is winless in two September outings, but 5-3 with a 2.70 ERA in 15 career starts against the Indians.
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Also, the Indians will host weekend series against the New York Yankees (Aug. 3-6) and Kansas City Royals (Aug. 25-27).
