This game was not entirely lost by Sandy Alomar Jr., but he sure didn’t help.
If Francisco Lindor or Carlos Santana could have managed an extra-base hit with the bases loaded, or if Satan himself didn’t enter the baseball and flip it in a random direction in front of Tyler Naquin, maybe some of Alomar’s decisions wouldn’t have been so glaringly brutal in the afterglow of this stinker. But as it is, the universe conspired to dump everything on the Tribe at once and they lost to the lowly Royals, 3-0.
Despite being the only batter with multiple hits, there is a very good case to be made that Delino DeShields should not have batted past the sixth inning.