The Cleveland Baseball Club were outhit by the Houston Astros 14-9 and that led to the lopsided final score of 9-3.
The Cleveland Baseball Club was on the wrong side of a lopsided loss as their postseason hopes continue to slip away. It was a 9-3 final score as the Houston Astros came away victorious with Cleveland seeing their slugging first baseman Bobby Bradley exit the game due to injury.
Triston McKenzie was not effective whatsoever as he gave up five runs on eight hits in just 4 innings. Nick Sandlin would follow as allowed three runs on two hits with two walks as he failed to get out of the 5th. Justin Garza would take the mound for the final 3.1 innings, limiting Houston to just four hits and one run scored. Considering how everything beforehand went that has to count as a win of some sort.
Cleveland did manage to score three runs in the contest, but with the game 9-0 at that point they had no impact on the final result and did little to change the projected outcome.
After losing two straight to the Astros, Cleveland is now staring a sweep right in the face. While a win Wednesday wouldn’t do a whole lot for their postseason hopes, a loss would essentially end those aspirations once the score goes final. Cleveland trails Chicago by 9.5 games in the division while they are 5.5 games behind Oakland for the second Wild Card spot.
