Kluber Knocked Out Early in Shortest Career Outing as Cardinals Pound

3. Equally as Bad Night for the Pen

The Indians pen didn’t exactly do any favor to Corey Kluber or the Indians offense to give them a chance after Kluber allowed six runs in 1.2 innings.

Manager Terry Francona marched out four relief pitchers, and all of them minus one inning from Oliver Perez allowed at least one run.

It started with Dan Otero who gave up two runs in 1.1 innings, allowing a homer in his time to give St.Louis an 8-2 lead.

Josh Tomlin threw three innings to bridge the gap, allowing two runs on four hits as the Cardinals pushed the lead out to 10-2.

Tomlin’s ERA sits at 6.04 on the season.

After a successful one inning for Perez in which he didn’t allow a run with a walk and two K’s, it was George Kontos who came in and in garbage time gave up a homer to Matt Carpenter, who hit two blasts on the night.

Five runs in 6.1 innings overall for the pen, and while the offense wasn’t going to get it done, the effort from this unit was more like it was earlier in the season when they couldn’t seem to get anyone out.

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