Diamondbacks 6 Indians 4: Arizona Takes Down The Mafia

It was bound to happen at some point. The Tribe relievers, dubbed “The Bullpen Mafia,” have been as close to perfect as you can get this season. The blown games have come few and far between for this group. No matter the situation, they always seem to get the job done. During last night’s 6-4 loss in Phoenix, the pen was done in late not once, but twice. This was a close game throughout thanks to solid starting pitching on both sides from Josh Tomlin and Daniel Hudson. But it wasn’t their pitching that everyone wanted to talk about last night; it was their bats. Tomlin delivered the first two hits of his career in the third and fifth. After Shelley Duncan’s leadoff double, the Tribe starter was asked to drop down a sacrifice bunt. Instead, he put down a beauty to the third base side for a bunt single. Duncan would end up scoring the first run of the game on Michael Brantley’s double play ball. In the fifth, with two outs and Lonnie Chisenhall on s...