Indians fall to Yankees 7-4 in a game that wasn’t the pitchers’ duel everyone expected; three takeaways

3. Getting to Severino early

The Tribe made a point of getting to the pitcher with the most 2018 first half wins on Thursday night, snapping Luis Severino’s five game win streak.

Severino earned a no-decision after giving up nine hits, four earned runs and striking out just one batter through five innings. Coming into Thursday, his ERA was just 2.12.

The Indians put up two runs on the starter in the first inning thanks to an Edwin Encarnacion homer, and followed that up with an RBI single from Yonder Alonso in the third inning and Ramirez’s homer in the fifth.

Their two first inning runs are especially impressive when you consider the fact that coming into Thursday night’s game, Severino had given up either 1 or 0 runs in 25 of his last 50 starts dating back to the beginning of 2017.

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