8 - 17 - 10 at Kansas City L, 2 - 1 49 - 70
A season ago, Kansas City's Zack Greinke was the most dominant pitcher in either league. However, this year, he has not been nearly as good. Yet, on any given night, he can completely shut an offense down, especially one as inept as the Indians'. And, of course, the Tribe caught Greinke on a good night, and the result was a narrow loss, although Jeanmar Gomez pitched extremely well.
Gomez, who was off to the best start of any hurler in franchise history, only made two mistakes over six innings of work. Unfortunately, both of those mistakes turned into home runs; one by Yuniesky Betancourt in the 5th, and the other by Wilson Betemit in the 6th.
Cleveland could only muster one measly score against Greinke, and that came in the 2nd. Travis Hafner doubled and Jayson Nix singled to start the rally, and Matt LaPorta brought home Pronk with a fielder's choice chopper to second.
The rest of the Indians' night was spent wasting scoring chances and arguing the bad calls of home plate umpire Kerwin Danley. The Tribe had opportunities in the 6th and 7th that went for naught because of their own bad performance, but the one that got away in the 9th was not their fault.
Michael Brantley led off by lacing a single to center field off of one of the best closers in baseball, Joakim Soria. Brantley then advanced to second base on a groud out before watching Shin - Soo Choo and Hafner both take called third strikes that were well off the outside corner. Neither hitter was happy about it, but the victory still went to Greinke and the Royals.
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