CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The starting rotation, the thing that set the Indians apart from their competition all season, has suffered another blow. So has the Tribe's potential for postseason success.
The Indians, for the second time in nine games, have lost a starting pitcher for the season. Carlos Carrasco, on his second pitch of the game Saturday afternoon, was hit in the right hand by an Ian Kinsler liner. Carrasco left the game and was later diagnosed with a non-displaced fracture of the fifth metacarpal -- a bone in the hand that connects to the little finger of his pitching hand.