Patient vs. wild Miley, Indians reward Carrasco

CLEVELAND — Right-hander Carlos Carrasco worked into the seventh inning and kept the Mariners’ bats at bay in a 3-2 victory for the Indians on Tuesday night at Progressive Field.

Carrasco picked up his second win of the season for Cleveland after holding Seattle to one run on four hits in 6 1/3 innings. The big righty struck out five, walked three and allowed only a solo home run to Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager.

It was a solid enough showing to support the Tribe’s work against Seattle left-hander Wade Miley, who exercised solid damage control before losing his command in the fourth inning. Miley issued four walks, including two with the bases loaded, in that decisive frame. The southpaw ended with two strikeouts, and he was charged with three runs on nine hits in 3 2/3 innings.

Beyond the run-scoring walks in the fourth — one each for Rajai Davis and Francisco Lindor — Mike Napoli contributed an RBI double off Miley. That two-base hit came with two outs in the third, scoring Lindor to give Cleveland an early 1-0 lead.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDTriple double: Miley gave up eight hits in the first three frames, but limited the damage to just one run by inducing a trio of double-play grounders. The biggest was a 5-4-3 twin killing by Collin Cowgill in a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the second. But Miley also got Napoli on a hard grounder to Seager with runners on first and second to end the first. He then wiped out a leadoff single by Davis in the third when Jason Kipnis drove …

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