Maybe I should stop recapping Indians games. It has not gone well this season — it seems that the team, which is not playing well and fell back to .500, always manages to lose when I have to write about them. The perplexing thing is that I’m not only recapping Josh Tomlin games. I’ve had a good mix of Bauer, Carrasco(!), and even Mike Clevinger (okay, that one was expected).

Tonight was no exception to the curse that is my turn to recap a game. Corey Kluber started this game and was his usual ace self. He went 7.0 innings and allowed two runs, but he dominated the Dodgers, especially near the end of his outing. Some of the strikeout that he was pumping past the Dodgers were simply nasty, and the hitters had absolutely no chance.

But the Indians offense, again, didn’t do much to support Kluber. The Indians managed one measly run off of Brandon McCarthy, and it seemed like they were just going to go quietly into the late Spring night like they have so much this season.

But alas, the Indians decided to give us all a little false hope when they tied the game on a Jose Ramirez tater. We all thought that maybe — just maybe the Tribe was about to craft one of those come back victories they have been famous for under Tito Francona.

The Indians, to their credit, scored 3 more times in this game, and they were not the reason for the loss. The blame for this one falls squarely on the shoulders of … Tito Francona.

Yes, I know Andrew Miller was in this game and allowed 4 runs. We could dissect the details of it, but it hardly seems fruitful when he never should have been out there to begin with. Miller threw a lot of pitches the night before, and he even looked mortal in that game (allowing a rare run). There was no reason to ride your best pitcher so hard in a meaningless game in mid-June.

Yes, meaningless. The record is becoming a concern, but the division is still ripe for the taking (assuming the team gets hot at some point), but this game didn’t mean anything. It was interleague, so the implications for the standings were actually lower than a game against any team in the American League. There was no reason to stretch out Miller like Tito did tonight.

Francona, however, is a smart guy, and I’m sure he’ll learn from this. He got a little greedy, and he played this game like it was October 14th, not June 14th, and it bit him. The Indians, as I always say, will be fine. The pitching will be fine.

Everything is fine. Everything will be fine.

But why do I increasingly feel like the dog in that “This is fine” comic….?