Okay, so that was dramatic.
Trevor Bauer started but couldn’t make it out of the first inning, because the stitches on his pinky opened up.
That turned it into a bullpen game, and the Indians bullpen was wholly up to the challenge. Only two runs in eight and a third innings against them. Eight strikeouts, seven hits, one walk.
Oh, and Jose Bautista thinks it’s all rigged, uses odd circuitous language to say so. Craig Edwards investigates, finds that the Jays haven’t been treated that unfairly by the refs.
From the Rays, quick video with fifth-round pick Joe McCarthy.