Indians tab Tomlin for Wednesday start in Chicago

MINNEAPOLIS — Josh Tomlin has spent the past few weeks searching for answers. Maybe the Indians right-hander was throwing too many cutters. Maybe he was not pitching inside effectively enough with his fastball. Perhaps his mechanics were slightly off, throwing off his usual pinpoint command.

In reality, Tomlin feels the solution to his struggles is a simple one.

“If you want to look deep into anything, you can find some stuff that’s going wrong,” Tomlin said on Sunday morning. “More so than anything, I think it’s just getting back to executing pitches when you need to execute a pitch, limiting damage, limiting the early balls, the hitter-advantage counts, and going out there and pitching to my strengths.”

Tomlin will have an opportunity to do that again come Wednesday.

With righty Danny Salazar sidelined for an undetermined amount of time with a right forearm issue, Tomlin will slot back into the rotation for the third game in the upcoming four-game road series against the White Sox. Rookie Mike Clevinger, who assumed the fifth spot after Tomlin lost his grip on the job, will follow as …

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