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

3) Wasted opportunities

Despite getting on base 14 times (12 hits: 2BB)  Friday night the Indians only managed to score four runs. They left a total of 16 guys on base, just looking at guys left on base you can see the Indians wasted a number of chances. Unfortunately, though, the wasted opportunities don’t stop there. As the Tribe also had two errors, including a rare one by the usually impeccable Francisco Lindor. While neither error resulted in runs for Toronto, both were silly mistakes made by Cleveland.

The Indians were able to threaten the Blue Jays in both the seventh and the eighth innings but failed to produce any runs. The seventh inning ended with Lindor being thrown out at home on a deep grounder to the second baseman. The eighth inning started off promising as Yan Gomes hit a single, but that was followed by a swinging strikeout by Bradley Zimmer and an inning-ending double play by Rajai Davis.

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