A winning streak, consisting of even a few games, would not cure all that has ailed the Indians over the past month, but it could go a long way toward restoring some of the energy that has been sucked out of the team’s clubhouse.
It has been so long, the Tribe might need to be reminded what a winning streak is when it finally happens again.
On Sunday afternoon, the Indians were handed a 4-2 loss by the Yankees, marking the eighth consecutive series in which the Tribe has not come out on top. Ubaldo Jimenez gave Cleveland a decent outing but could not prevent the club’s 23rd loss in its past 28 games.
The Indians have won back-to-back contests just twice over the last 45 games.
“We can’t be talking about stringing wins together,” Indians manager Manny Acta said. “We need to take it one at a time and win one before you can string two, three or four. Before we get to three, we need to win one again.”
The struggling Indians have not experienced a winning streak — that is, a string of at least three victories in a row — since July 3-5. To locate a four-game run within Cleveland’s game log, you need to go back to June 18-22. At the conclusion of that streak, the Indians were in first place in the American League Central.
Those were the days.
The Indians have gone 18-40 since then and now sit in fourth place in the division, trailing the first-place White Sox by 16 games. It has been a drastic slide mostly caused by Cleveland’s inconsistent starting pitching, but the offense has been a main culprit of late.
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