The Indians began their four-game series against the Yankees in New York on Thursday with a win. Tonight, right-hander Carlos Carrasco (11-9, 3.63) makes the start for Cleveland against RHP Masahiro Tanaka (9-5, 3.56). This is Cleveland’s 8th four-game series of the season and, surprisingly enough, they’ve won all but one of them. Of course, the last time they won a four-game series against the Yankees was in 2000.

So far, this road trip hasn’t been great. The Indians have lost 8 of their last 12 games on the road and scored exactly one run in 5 of those 8 losses. At the risk of being repetitive, the Tribe needs to start scoring runs, and they need to do it early in the game. None of this late-rally-when-they’re-down-by-six-runs stuff. Cleveland is 37-12 when scoring first and 19-52 when their opponent scores first. They need to score first, period.

Hope springs eternal.

Indians Yankees
DH
Jason Kipnis
CF
Brett Gardner
SS
Francisco Lindor
3B
Chase Headley
LF
Michael Brantley DH Alex Rodriguez
1B
Carlos Santana
C
Brian McCann
RF
Lonnie Chisenhall
RF
Carlos Beltran
C
Yan Gomes
1B
Greg Bird
CF
Abraham Almonte
LF
Chris Young
3B
Giovanny Urshela
2B
Stephen Drew
2B
Jose Ramirez
SS
Brendan Ryan
SP
Carlos Carrasco
SP
Masahiro Tanaka

2 Comments

  • LittleChicago42 says:

    While the Tribe is basically out of serious playoff contention, it sure is nice to cause problems for the Yankees.

    First time the Indians have won the season series vs the Yanks in consecutive years since 1968-69!