Ramirez homers twice in Tribe’s beatdown

contributed to a ninth-inning meltdown Tuesday night.

On Wednesday night in the series finale against the Reds, they flipped the script and turned the game into a laugher. Already leading 2-0 after a first-inning home run from Jose Ramirez, the Indians sent 12 men to the plate in the bottom of the third inning and scored nine runs, building an 11-0 lead that even their beleaguered bullpen couldn’t blow. The Tribe went on to a 19-4 win that snapped a four-game losing streak.

Every Indians player save for center fielder Greg Allen reached base and scored during the third. Michael Brantley led off the inning with a grounder under the glove of first baseman Joey Votto for a two-base error. It was capped by a towering three-run home run to right by Ramirez that landed mere feet from his firstinning blast.