Roughly 65 million years ago, a six-mile wide meteor struck the earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, forever changing the world as it once existed. About a week after that, the Cleveland Indians lost two games in a row and they haven’t done it again since.
With Friday night’s loss to the Seattle Mariners, the Tribe were in danger of repeating history (and potentially ushering in another ice age) with another loss in today’s matinee. Luckily the avoided that fate and calmed the hot takes for another day.
Francisco Lindor — who was supposed to have an off-day but compromised with Terry Francona to just being the designated hitter — led off the game with a home run and later added a double, which eventually turned into a run scored thanks to some Little League defense from the Mariners.