CLEVELAND -- Two teams coming off contrasting weekend series will meet Monday at Progressive Field for the start of a three-game series. The Cleveland Indians, who swept a three-game series from the White Sox over the weekend, will host the Tampa Bay Rays, who were swept at home in a three-game series with the San Francisco Giants.
The Indians will send perhaps the best pitcher nobody knows to the mound Monday in the first game of a three-game series with the Rays. Josh Tomlin (8-1, 3.27 ERA) will make his 13th start of what so far has been the best year of his career.