Jason Adam wasn’t perfect Wednesday, but he bounced back almost perfectly from a leadoff walk that gave Cleveland two runners with no outs to start the bottom of the 10th inning. Leadoff walks are the bane of a reliever’s existence, particularly when they’re issued on four pitches with a runner already on second to start the extra frame.
So when Adam missed badly on his offerings to Josh Naylor, the circle of trust into which he’d stepped started to shrink. Then the righty got former Cubs legend Mike Freeman to nub a first-pitch grounder that resulted in a force at third.