Tribe Strikes Early But Falter Late, Blue Jays Win 8-4; Three Takeaways From The Victory

By: Corey Perez

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Coming into Friday night’s game vs the Toronto Blue Jays, the Cleveland Indians were winners of five straight. After the first two innings, the Indians looked well on their way to another victory, as the bats came out hot knocking in four runs in the first two innings.

Then came the fourth inning, that four-to-nothing cushion the Tribe had built was erased in just one inning. Mike Clevinger had great control during the first three innings, but that all changed in the fourth as he walked two guys on. With a left-field single off the bat of Kevin Pillar, the Indians lead was down to three, until a three-run 414 ft long ball by Aledmys Diaz tied up the game at four.

Thes rest of the game would belong to Toronto as they added to their lead in the seventh on an RBI double by Teoscar Hernandez. While the Indians offense tried to string hits together in the bottom half of both the seventh and eighth innings they still found themselves down heading into the ninth.

Trailing 5-4 as the top of the ninth began, Tribe fans still had some optimism for an Indians walk-off victory. Unfortunately, that optimism was short-lived as the Tribe bullpen allowed the Blue Jays to plate three more runs. Thus extending their lead to 8-4, and that is what it would finish as the Indians winning streak is snapped at 5 games.

The Indians fall to 8-6 on the season and fall to 6-2 at home. Back at tomorrow afternoon with a 4 o’clock start against these same Blue Jays, as the Tribe will try to even the series with their ace Corey Kluber on the mound.

Three takeaways from Friday night’s loss:

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