Cleveland bounces back from being no-hit, knock off Sox 4-2
Slumping Jose Ramirez connected for a go-ahead, two-run homer off Lance Lynn in the sixth inning and Cleveland bounced back from being no-hit, beating the Chicago White Sox 4-2 Thursday.
After Carlos Rodon just missed a perfect game in pitching a perfect game Wednesday night, there was a different kind of tension this time as the benches emptied in the bottom of the first.
Adam Eaton singled and tried to advance when Indians right fielder Josh Naylor threw to third, hoping to get lead runner Tim Anderson. Eaton arrived ahead of the throw back to second, but was called out when his hand came off the bag while shortstop Andres Gimenez stood his ground and held the tag.
Eaton grabbed Gimenez’s leg, began barking and then pushed Gimenez in the chest with two hands. Indians starter Aaron Civale plunked Eaton with a pitch in the upper arm in the third.
Lynn was nursing a 1-0 lead when Ramirez launched a full-count pitch with two outs deep to right for his third home run. Gimenez led off the inning with a groundrule double before Ramirez ended his 0-for19 skid.
Civale (3-0) allowed only a run — in the first — and five hits through six innings in his third straight strong start. The 25-yearold right-hander struck out four, walked two and lowered his ERA to 2.18.
Nick Wittgren and James Karinchak followed with a scoreless inning each. Emmanuel Clase allowed an unearned run in the ninth, but got his his third save.
Lynn (1-1) permitted his first two earned runs this season on five hits through six innings, while striking out 10 and walking none. The right-hander had tossed his second career shutout in his previous outing, fanning 11 last week against Kansas City.
Gimenez drove in an insurance run with a ground out in the seventh.
The Indians added an unearned run in the eighth when reigning AL MVP Jose Abreu made a fielding and throwing error on Ramirez’s grounder.