In last night’s contest between the Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners, Carlos Carrasco pitched seven shutout innings, recording 12 strikeouts and allowing five base runners. If for some reason, this is the very first thing you’ve read on the Tribe in 2019, you could be forgiven for thinking something along the lines of, “Yeah, so? He does that all the time.”
Carrasco’s nearly flawless Wednesday outing gave the Indians a 1-0 victory and a hard-fought, decisive road sweep of one of Major League Baseball’s most surprisingly dangerous teams. This all following, of course, a disastrous series in which the Indians were swept by one of baseball’s least dangerous teams–a three-game blunder highlighted by Carrasco failing to make it out of the first inning against the Royals just five days before putting the clamps down on Seattle.