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

1. Don’t Lose Sight of a Great Trip

When this trip began, the Indians trolls on twitter were already declaring that this would be the trip where the team was going to finally show their true colors and have struggles on the long trip.

Instead they stepped up, picked up a huge piece in Jay Bruce, and went 8-3 to cement that they are the best team in the division and put more distance between themselves and the Twins and Royals.

The team comes home 68-54, 5.5 up on the Twins, and 6.5 up on the Royals. They still have seven games left against the Royals, including three big ones starting Friday at Progressive Field.

Things didn’t look so good after they lost the first game of the trip in Tampa, but then they ran off six straight before losing the second game of a double header against the Twins on Thursday.

They got great pitching and clutch hitting in just about the whole trip, and while some maybe worried they are peaking a little too soon, this was much needed to show they are truly contenders in the AL and should cruise now to a second straight division title.

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