Road Trip Wraps Up 8-3 Following Indians 7-4 Loss to Royals; Three Takeaways From the Setback

2. A Step Back for Salazar

It was hard to imagine that Danny Salazar was going to be able to continue the run he was on, and Sunday it came to a screeching halt as he allowed more runs in the loss than his last five starts combined.

He went 4.2 innings, gave up way too many hits (12) and allowed six earned runs with one walk and five strikeouts.

It took him awhile to get settled in, and seemed off most of the day, and it showed with the amount of hits that the Royals were able to amass against him.

“Didn’t have his best fastball most of the day,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “At some point there’s just so much traffic they are going to score.”

He had issues with his command as well as mechanics, and let’s hope for him and the Indians sake it’s a minor bump in the road and not a regression back to what stopped him from being successful earlier in the season.

Salazar is set to be back on the mound Friday against the Royals.

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