Indians doubled up by Seattle on dreary day

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

The weather was dreadful.

Unfortunately for the Cleveland Indians, so was their pitching.

“It was an ugly day,” manager Manny Acta said following the Indians’ rain-shortened 12-6 loss to Seattle on Monday.

The Mariners came in for one day to make up a rainout from May 15, and played in a steady drizzle before the field was covered at the start of the eighth. After waiting 44 minutes, it was called.

The Indians entered with a three-game winning streak and got off to a fast start. Asdrubal Cabrera and Carlos Santana homered in the first, and Cabrera added a run-scoring double in the second that gave Cleveland a 4-2 lead.

And just like that, the lead was gone.

Mike Carp hit a grand slam into the second deck in right field and drove in five runs during Seattle’s nine-run third inning in which the Mariners sent 13 batters to the plate.

David Huff (2-6) faced the first nine hitters and threw 80 pitches in 22/3 innings. Carp doubled home the first run in the third, then connected against Chad Durbin for a 455-foot shot that put Seattle ahead 11-4.

“It was deflating,” Acta said. “It kind of sucked the energy out of us after we put up those runs in the first two innings and not being able to hold the lead.”

The Tribe used three relievers with a day-night doubleheader coming up against Chicago on Tuesday.

“We gave David some runs to work with,” Acta said. “Unfortunately, he had a very rough day out there. He picked the wrong day to have a bad day.”

Huff allowed seven hits and nine runs — five earned. The left-hander is 0-4 with a 7.11 ERA in four starts this month.

“I left some balls up over the middle and they got hit pretty hard,” Huff said. “I was down [in the strike zone] and they got some lucky hits in there, little bloop singles, down the third-base line. All in all, it was really frustrating, I’m really disappointed in myself.”

Carp learned a lesson from an earlier matchup against Durbin.

“Last time I faced him in the same situation, bases loaded, he struck me out,” Carp said. “This time, I looked for a fastball inside. He threw a cutter and I put a good swing on it.”