Indians Fall to Rays 6-4 After Allowing 5 Home Runs; Three Takeaways from the Loss

1. Don’t Call it a Comeback (Really)

The Tribe dug themselves into a pretty deep hole in the first five and a half innings, and were down 6-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth.

While they mounted a mini-comeback in the inning, it wouldn’t be enough to combat the early runs the Rays put on the board.

Francisco Lindor started the inning off with a single, which Michael Brantley matched in the next at bat. Lindor would score after Carlos Santana grounded out to first.

But Edwin Encarnacion got the big play of the inning, hitting a 407-foot homer over the center field wall.

The three runs the Tribe scored in the inning closed the Rays’ lead to two, but production stalled after that. Cleveland recorded only one more hit after the sixth inning, an Encarnacion single in the bottom of the ninth.

In their last three games, the Indians have put up 20 runs. Tonight they just couldn’t get a few more on the board early when it would have counted, and couldn’t keep their sixth inning momentum rolling.

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