A walk off home run from Cleveland Indians first baseman Carlos Santana gave the Tribe a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.
With one out in the ninth Carlos Santana came up to the plate and delivered. Santana hit a walk off home run to left center field to give the Indians a 3-2 victory. This was Santana’s fifth-career walk off homer, tying him with Cory Snyder for third all time for the Indians. The home run was Santana’s first of the year.
Carlos Santana was not the only Indians player to hit his first long ball of the year. Kevin Plawecki got the scoring started in the bottom of the third with a solo shot to left field. This gave Cleveland an early 1-0 lead.
The lead would not last for long. After walking Rowdy Tellez, Shane Bieber surrendered a two-run home run to Freddy Galvis, allowing Toronto to take a 2-1 lead in the top of the fifth.
Cleveland would come back to tie things up in the bottom half of the inning courtesy of a Max Moroff RBI double. Hanley Ramirez came all the away around from first to score.
Neither team would score until Santana’s home run in the bottom of the ninth to seal the victory for Cleveland.
Shane Bieber went six innings in his first start of the year, allowing two runs on two hits while striking out nine. Neil Ramirez pitched the seventh, striking out two. Oliver Perez took on the eighth inning and ran into some trouble. Perez allowed a leadoff double to Richard Urena, but managed to get out of the inning unscathed. The top of ninth belonged to Adam Cimber, who finished with two strikeouts.
Cleveland’s offense is still a work in progress as they only managed four hits, two of which were solo home runs. Things will have to change if the Indians want to make a serious run in the postseason.
