When the Indians left the field Sunday having squandered another comeback opportunity against the Twins, they officially dropped their sixth game in a row. That’s not an uncommon occurrence in baseball, but for a team like the Indians that hasn’t had a losing season in over half a decade and has enjoyed one of the highest winning percentages in baseball since Terry Francona took over, it does not happen very often.
The last time the Indians lost six consecutive games was in 2015; the before-time, the long long ago. Francisco Lindor was barely a rookie, the idea of Cleveland winning a championship was absurd, and the Indians hadn’t been in the playoffs since that fateful Wild Card game two years prior.