Twins Capitalize on Indians Mistakes, Top Tribe and Kluber 6-3: Three Takeaways

In game one of a nine game homestand the Cleveland Indians fell to the Minnesota Twins by a score of 6-3. Corey Kluber struggled from the gate and the bats were

In game one of a nine game homestand the Cleveland Indians fell to the Minnesota Twins by a score of 6-3. Corey Kluber struggled from the gate and the bats were right behind him as the Indians couldn’t get anything going Friday night.

A packed house (32,637) was quite all night long as the Indians never really were able to create any juice all night. The Indians tried to rally late but they came up short, as few puzzling mistakes plagued all night.

The team hopes to forget about this one and gear up for their Saturday afternoon date with these very same Twins when the Tribe sends Carlos Carrasco to the mound.

Here are three takeaways from tonight’s Indians loss.

Unusual outing
Cleveland Indians ace Corey Kluber has been quite a roll as of late, that was not the case on Friday night. Kluber gave up a home run early in the ballgame when Eddie Rosario started the scoring for the Twins.

While one bad start is nothing to worry about, the fact Kluber only threw 65 pitches and was pulled because “managers decision” was puzzling.

2) Silly mistakes

All-Star shortstop Francisco Lindor uncharacteristically had two errors (9th and 10th) Friday night. The first being on a bad throw to Corey Kluber on what would’ve been a double play, the bad throw ultimately led to a Twins run. His next mistake was on a hotly contested grounder to short that he struggled with, again resulting in a Minnesota run.

Lindor is still one of the best shortstops in all of baseball, regardless if we’re talking hitting or fielding, but he had 10 errors all of last season, so he must shore things up as we head into the dog days of summer.

Lindor wasn’t the only who cost the Indians a run, relief pitcher Tyler Olson balked in a run for the Twins. These type of mistakes are tough to overcome I don’t care how talented you are.

3) Gibson was dealing
Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Kyle Gibson was just (1-4) on the season before serving to out pitch Corey Kluber on Friday night. Gibson’s win was his first win since his season debut in late March.

Seven solid innings worth of work, yielding only one run on three hits, while striking out striking out three. Gibson was able to keep Indians hitters off balance all night long. More impressively though, this was Gibson’s first win vs the Tribe since September 30th, 2015.