Cleveland showed up to Minute Maid Park and participated in all nine innings of a baseball game Tuesday night, fulfilling the bare minimum required of them in a 9-3 loss to the Houston Astros.
Triston McKenzie’s start was nearly a mirror image of J.C. Mejia’s from the night before. He managed to limit the Astros to two runs through the first four innings, giving up a pair of solo home runs to Jose Altuve. But then McKenzie unraveled the third time through the order in the fifth inning. He hit Michael Brantley with a pitch, gave up a sharp single to Yuri Gurriel on an 0-2 slider, allowed them to advance on a wild pitch, and then saw both of them cross the plate on a Yordan Alvarez RBI single.