The Indians won tonight, and I gotta be honest with you, I’m still not completely sure how.
Pitching was effective. That’s a start.
Mike Clevinger is still a little worrying with five more walks in 5.2 innings, but he struck out four and hit his spots to keep the Reds scoreless. Forty-two of Clevinger’s 103 pitches were slider and seven of those were swung on and missed. Another eight were called strikes and all told Clevingers stuff looked good when he could actually locate it. When he couldn’t, he walked himself into tough situations and ended up getting knocked out early as a result.