Carlos Carrasco’s dominance gets Indians 5-0 win; Three Takeaways

2. The fifth inning onslaught

Halfway into the game, and it looked like we might be in for what has become all too familiar this season: a great pitching performance, coupled with a lack of offense.

The luggage with the Tribe’s bats eventually arrived in the nick of time during the fifth inning.

Edwin Encarnacion got the party started with a lead-off solo homer. The next three batters, Jay Bruce, Carlos Santana and Yan Gomes, all got on base to load them up with no outs.

Bradley Zimmer would hit a nice sacrifice fly to center field that scored Bruce. In the next at-bat, an RBI single from Giovanny Urshela drove in the third run of the inning.

A force-out from Austin Jackson plated Gomes, and was followed in quick succession by an RBI double from Jose Ramirez to drive in the final run.

The fifth inning was some of the best offense in the last week from the Indians, and ultimately, was more than enough to secure the win, despite the bats once again going stagnant for the second half of the game.

And oh yeah, the five runs they scored in that inning were as many runs as they scored in their last four losses combined.

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