Player of the Game
By actually throwing a scoreless inning, Austin Adams is tonight’s player of the game. No other pitcher threw at least a full inning on the night without a run being scored and Adams threw 1.2. The one base runner he did allow was eliminated with a double play. This was Adams first Player of the Game of the year.

Feathers Up
Danny Salazar put up identical innings in the first and second innings when he struck out the first two batters, allowed an infield hit, then struck out the third twice. He would go on to strike out eight in 4.2 innings, but nothing much good happened for Salazar after the second inning.

Milestone Alert: With a two out walk in the first inning against Yordano Ventura, Carlos Santana moved into eighth all time in Indians single season history. Santana now has 109 on the year, tying Andre Thornton’s 1982 season. It remains possible that he could finish the season as high as sixth all time if he can get at least two more walks in the final four games.

With the loss, the Indians play-offs hopes have reached near 0%, but there is still something for Indians fans to look forward to. Corey Kluber’s primary opponent in the Cy Young race has just one statistical argument for him over Kluber. This is Felix Hernandez and his amazing ERA, but an eight run, 4.2 inning appearance against the Blue Jays has pushed his 2.07 ERA up to 2.34, making Kluber’s 2.53 ERA and league leading 258 strike outs look that much better. Kluber will get one more start this year against the Rays.

Feathers Down
Unlike last night, Danny Salazar can’t blame any of his problems tonight on the defense. He allowed the Royals to put two on the board in the fourth and three more the following inning as Kansas City blasted balls all around the outfield. Five doubles and three walks (two of which were intentional) pushed Salazar out of the game during the fifth. Of course, he can still blame the offense, that didn’t score a run while he was in the game.

Thanks to Terry Francona caring more about matching up with hitters than actually getting outs or protecting pitchers from injury, Nick Hagadone was pulled from the game after just one pitch. Hagadone got the final out of the sixth inning with a pick off of Lorenzo Cain at first. Eric Hosmer singled on his first pitch the next inning, so Francona went to the oft used Scott Atchison to finish the inning. He gave up another single and a double to give up Hagadone’s run and one of his own in his 70th appearance of the season.

Final Score: Cleveland Indians 1 – Kansas City Royals 7

Wild Card Magic #1

On Deck: The Indians and Royals will play their final game against each other of 2014 with the Nation watching. They will be on ESPN starting at 7:10 PM Wednesday night. Trevor Bauer and Jason Vargas presiding.