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Kluber: No reason Tribe rotation can’t thrive
- Updated: September 18, 2016
CLEVELAND — The Indians did not fold after Carlos Carrasco’s injury on Saturday night, and the club does not plan on packing it in now with a more daunting road ahead. Inside Cleveland’s clubhouse on Sunday morning, players pointed to the many obstacles they have already overcome this year.
Moving forward without Carrasco and Danny Salazar will make things exponentially more difficult for the Indians, especially on the October stage, but what is done is done. Carrasco is out at least six weeks with a non-displaced fracture in his right hand, and Salazar is sidelined for three to four weeks with a right forearm injury.
The Tribe’s postseason hopes now hinge on a rotation consisting of Corey Kluber, Trevor Bauer, Josh Tomlin and Mike Clevinger.
“We lost a really good pitcher yesterday, probably one of the better pitchers in the league,” Kluber said prior to Sunday’s game against Detroit. “But, I don’t think anybody’s in here feeling sorry for ourselves because of it. I don’t think there’s a gloomy outlook or anything. Other guys have pitched well up to this point to get us where we are now, so I don’t think there’s any reason why we can’t continue to going forward.”
Carrasco exited Saturday’s 1-0, 10-inning win after two pitches in the first inning, when he was struck on the right hand by a line drive off the bat of Ian Kinsler. X-rays showed a fracture of the fifth metacarpal (a bone in the hand beneath the pinky finger), and the Indians …
