What’s gone wrong

• It is easy to pick on catchers Yan Gomes for hitting .222 and Roberto Perez for his microscopic .178 batting average. But the real mystery is why Francisco Lindor is batting 50 points (.252) below what he hit a year ago. Lindor hit .245 in May, .214 in June and is hitting .245 this month. He

has 14 home runs, just one shy of his total from last year, but 11 of them have come with the bases empty. He is hitting .241 with runners in scoring position.

Lindor is heading to his second straight All-Star Game, so finding fault in his production might be nitpicking. But the Indians will need him to be a .300 hitter in the postseason.

• Jason Kipnis has been playing from behind all year. It started with a shoulder injury in spring training, and now he is on the DL with a hamstring injury that could keep him sidelined the rest of July. Kipnis has a career .272 batting average, but he is

hitting just .232 this season — .218 on the road. He has two home runs in his last 32 games.

• Starting pitchers Trevor Bauer and Josh Tomlin are like mystery prizes in a raffle — you never know what is in the package from start to start. Bauer, with a 5.24 ERA, is 7-7. He hasn’t won more than two starts in a row this season. But he hasn’t lost more than two in a row, either. Tomlin is 5-9. He won twice in April and since is averaging one victory a month.

Reach Schudel at JSchudel@ News-Herald.com. On Twitter: @jsproinsider