Kluber Knocked Out Early in Shortest Career Outing as Cardinals Pound

1. Kluber Clobbered in Shortest Outing in Career

1.2 innings, an outing that will go down as the shortest of the career of two-time Cy Young award winner Corey Kluber in the Tribe’s 10-2 loss.

The offense actually staked Kluber to a 2-0 edge against Carlos Martinez, but it was nowhere near enough for Kluber, who in those 1.2 innings of work allowed six runs on six hits with a walk, two K’s and two homers.

The first homer to Matt Carpenter in the 1st got St.Louis on the board to make it a 2-1 game, and the ace was pulled after the second homer, a three-run blast by Jose Martinez to left that scored Kolton Wong and Carpenter to make it a 6-2 affair.

Fans are going to speculate again that something is wrong with Kluber, as it’s his 2nd subpar outing in the last three – the other poor outing a five inning effort against the Twins on June 15th.

Let’s not panic about Kluber just yet, but yes two poor starts out of three is very much out of the ordinary for the Indians ace.

“Martínez. 3-run ? off of Kluber!” – @DannyMacTV #VoteCafeJr #VoteCafeJr #VoteCafeJr #VoteCafeJr pic.twitter.com/icO8vQU8SY

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) June 27, 2018

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