In a perverse way, maybe it was better for the Indians to just lose this ballgame in the bottom of the ninth. Bear with me on this to the end.
Handed a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a two run double by Jason Kipnis, Danny Salazar got exactly nobody out in the bottom of the first when he walked the leadoff batter, Kevin Pillar, on a couple of pitches way outside the strike zone and then gave former Indian Ezequeil Carrera two meatballs over the middle of the plate, the second of which was singled to center.