1. Interleague Nightmare
The loss to the Padres, a team that even with two straight over the Indians is still 12 games under .500, puts the Tribe at 2-11 this season against National League teams.
Forget the fact the team has a real disadvantage when playing on the road due to no DH, the Indians have no excuse to how poorly they have played at home against the NL, going 1-5 in six games thus far.
They dropped a game to the Reds, two of three to the Dodgers, and now two bad losses to the Padres.
Their 2-11 mark is the worst for Cleveland since the start of Interleague play way back in 1997, and add even more salt to the wound the Indians have been held to three runs or fewer in 9 of their 13 games against the National League.
While the team still has one home game left against the Padres, the team will go out west to start the second half, and after they play the A’s for three they go to San Francisco to take a Giants team that is in last in the NL West, but at this point, none of that seems to matter.
Thankfully Interleague on the road is done after the series against the Giants, but the team still has three more games against the NL left – two against the Rockies at home and a makeup game at home against the Reds on July 24th.
This season has been a disaster for the Tribe in terms of games against the NL West, going 1-9 against the Diamondbacks, Padres, Dodgers and Rockies.
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