Indians Beat Up in Boston 6-2 by the Red Sox; Three Takeaways From the Setback

2. Clevinger’s Second Straight Poor Outing

The Indians gave starter Mike Clevinger a 7-0 lead last week at home against the Angels, and he gave it just about all back before exiting the game in an eventual 11-7 Indians win.

Monday he didn’t get the run support, but it didn’t matter, as he again pitched poorly in taking the loss to drop to 5-4 on the season.

He walked too many batters (four), and lasted just three plus innings before getting pulled for Zach McAllister, again putting the pen in a tough spot.

Clevinger gave up way too much traffic, and was charged with five runs on seven hits in his latest outing. In his last two outings he’s gone 7.1 innings, allowing 10 ER on 16 hits with 6 walks and seven K’s.

The team placed Josh Tomlin on the 10-day DL with his hammy injury suffered Sunday, meaning that Clevinger is being counted on still to be a big part of this rotation as it stands.

His outing Monday hopefully was rock bottom, as he is set to take the rubber again on Saturday at home against the Yankees.

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