Cleveland Indians 2, Miami Palms 0

July 21, 2020 – Progressive Field

For eight innings Tuesday night, the Miami Palms played exactly the kind of baseball they needed to play.

And for nine innings, they couldn't score.

The result was one of the crueler losses of the season, a 2-0 defeat in Cleveland that dropped the Palms back to .500 at 51-51.

The game remained scoreless through eight innings thanks to a pair of outstanding starting pitching performances. Manny Parra delivered arguably his best outing of the year, scattering four hits across seven shutout innings while striking out five.

Parra navigated traffic in the middle innings and repeatedly worked out of trouble, keeping Cleveland's dangerous lineup quiet long enough for Miami's offense to find something.

Unfortunately, that something never arrived.

Aaron Civale dominated a short-handed Palms lineup, allowing just two hits in seven innings. Miami managed only three hits all night and never advanced a runner past second base.

The best chance came in the fourth inning when Pat Grant singled and Edwin Encarnacion followed with a double, but Civale escaped the threat and never looked back.

The game moved to the bottom of the ninth still scoreless.

Cody Allen had thrown two scoreless innings the night before. Chris Martin was unavailable after recent heavy usage. So Scott Hatteberg turned to Jeremy Jeffress.

For eight outs, it nearly worked.

Then Cleveland finally broke through.

A pair of walks put the winning run aboard before Robinson Chirinos lined a two-out double into the gap, scoring Carlos Santana and Jordan Luplow to end the game.

Just like that, eight innings of outstanding pitching were wasted.

The Palms have now scored eight runs in their last three games, but seven of them came in Sunday's blowout loss to Pittsburgh. Since arriving in Cleveland, Miami has managed just one run in eighteen innings.

The pitching was good enough.

The offense wasn't.

And that is becoming a familiar story.

  Cleveland Indians 2, Miami Palms 0

 Tuesday, July 21, 2020

 

 

 Miami Palms (51-51)                                      Cleveland Indians (2-0)                                 

 Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      

 ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      

 Gonzalez 2b     4  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  1   .277      Allen cf        3  0  2  0  1  1  2  0  0  0   .556

 Miranda rf      4  0  0  0  0  2  4  0  0  0   .327      Ramirez 3b      4  0  0  0  0  0  2  1  0  3   .222

 Grant lf        3  0  1  0  1  0  2  0  0  0   .288      Lindor ss       3  0  0  0  1  0  1  2  0  1   .250

 Encarnacion dh  4  0  1  0  0  1  0  0  0  1   .274      Reyes rf        4  0  0  0  0  0  3  0  0  0   .333

 Wieters c       4  0  0  0  0  1  9  0  0  1   .234      Bauers lf       4  1  1  0  0  2  3  0  0  2   .250

 Pfaff 1b        4  0  0  0  0  3  5  0  0  0   .354      Hernandez 2b    4  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0   .333

 Holt cf         2  0  0  0  1  0  3  0  0  1   .260      Santana 1b      3  1  1  0  1  1  6  2  0  0   .571

 Garcia 3b       3  0  1  0  0  0  1  1  0  0   .231      Luplow dh       3  0  1  0  1  0  0  0  0  0   .375

 Koch ss         2  0  0  0  1  0  2  2  0  3   .250      Chirinos c      4  0  2  2  0  1  8  1  0  0   .500

 

                 -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---                            -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---            

 Totals          30 0  3  0  3  7  26 4  0  7             Totals          32 2  7  2  4  5  27 7  0  6  

 

 

                           1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9      R  H  E

                           -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -      -  -  -

 Miami Palms               0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0      0  3  0  

 Cleveland Indians         0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  2      2  7  0  

 

 

 

 LOB- Miami Palms 7, Cleveland Indians 6; 2B- Encarnacion(23), Luplow(1), Chirinos(1);

 RBI- Chirinos 2(2); GIDP- Luplow(1); RLSP- Koch, Holt, Ramirez 2, Bauers 2;  

 

 DP- Miami Palms 1;  

  

 

 

 Miami Palms                  IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA

 Parra                        7.0  4  0  0  2  5    5.05  

 Jeffress(L 5-3)              1.2  3  2  2  2  0    2.95  

 

 Cleveland Indians            IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA

 Civale                       7.0  2  0  0  3  5    0.00  

 Lowe(W 1-0)                  2.0  1  0  0  0  2    0.00  

 

 Pitches-strikes- Parra 93-54, Jeffress 23-12, Civale 90-53, Lowe 20-14; Batters faced- Parra 26,

 Jeffress 10, Civale 27, Lowe 7; 


 HBP- Holt(by Civale);  

 

  

 Temp - 80, Sky - Fair, Wind - NNE 6mph 

 

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