Second Straight Big Day For the Offense as Indians Top Rays 8-7; Three Takeaways from the Win

3. Pen Makes It Count

The Indians bullpen, which to no surprise has been great thus far in 2017, stepped up again Monday, allowing two runs in the final five innings of the win.

Oddly the two guys that gave up runs were Andrew Miller and Cody Allen, two guys that normally shut the door with the best of them.

Boone Logan got the win, but Terry Francona wasn’t afraid to use the pen often, as Nick Goody, Logan, Bryan Shaw, Miller and Allen all took the mound for the Indians in the win.

Goody has quietly been excellent, as he’s not allowed an earned run through 13.2 innings this year (one unearned run).

It’s big to get a win on a night when your starter only lasts 3.2 innings, but like we saw in the postseason last year, some nights are going to go that way.

Here’s hoping Danny Salazar, who couldn’t hold a lead in Toronto last Wednesday, can turn it around and give the rotation some innings on Tuesday.

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