Pirates Pound Kluber and Indians in Rain-Shortened Affair 7-0; Three Takeaways

3. A Five-Out Second inning

Bad things tend to happen when you give a team two extra outs, and more so a hot team like the Pirates who have now won 10 straight games.

That’s what the Indians did in the second inning, as they first failed to turn a double play, and then committed an awful error when a pop up in the infield dropped when Yonder Alonso and Jose Ramirez both let the ball drop.

The two mistakes cost the team dearly, as Corey Kluber served up a three-run homer, coming with two outs on an 0-2 count to Josh Harrison that made it a 3-0 game at the time.

The inning continued to go South as the Pirates added another run to make it 4-0.

By then the way the Indians were not hitting the ball against Trevor Williams, the four runs might as well have been 50.

Defense has been an issue at times all season, and Monday the lack of focus cost them yet again.

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