As I said in the open thread, this looked like a pitching mismatch in the Indians favor.
And as I feared, it didn’t turn out that way.
You could sense it was going to be “one of those days” immediately. If Rajai Davis hasn’t been enough of a thorn in our side following the Yan Gomes injury, he set the the tone with a leadoff triple. Today, Davis would be exactly one of the things that the Indians so desperately need: an offensive terror. Davis had three hits and three runs scored, and I found myself feeling sorry for all of us having to see a ninth-hole-batting Michael Bourn’s continued decay accelerated right before our very eyes.