You can’t ask for anything more than what Carlos Carrasco has done in his last three starts. Following up two 1-0 victories in which he prevented the Indians from enduring a longer losing streak, Carlos spun another gem, taking a no-hitter into the sixth inning and relinquishing just one run while keeping Pittsburgh crossed-up with his four-pitch arsenal in the Tribe’s second straight 5-1 victory over the Pirates.
Everything you want to see a starting pitcher do, Carrasco did it last night. He got ahead in the count, worked out of a jam in the sixth, avoided the big inning, kept his pitch count low, and he was primarily a groundball pitcher. While all four of Carrasco’s pitches were working for him, his slider was devastatingly effective. The most obvious example of this was his fourth inning strikeout of Andrew McCutchen.
Carrasco was so lights-out that he had allowed just a second-inning walk to Lyle Overbay through five innings. The first batter of the sixth inn...
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