CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Indians had just one hit heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, but a pair of former Toronto Blue Jays teammates took care of that with back-to-back home runs off of Detroit Tigers starter Matthew Boyd and knotted the game at 2-2, to the delight of the home fans at Progressive Field.
Third baseman Josh Donaldson sat on a 3-0 pitch from Boyd and smacked it over the wall, just inside the foul pole and onto the Home Run Porch in left field for his first home run since May 3, when he hit round-trippers in both games of a doubleheader, ironically enough against the Indians, at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Before Donaldson could tie the game, designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion belted a four-seam fastball from Boyd down a tunnel underneath the left-field bleachers for his 31st round-tripper of the season. Encarnacion’s 16th home run at Progressive Field this year gave him his 97th run batted in.
When Encarnacion and Donaldson hit the consecutive home runs, it marked the first time since August 11 that the Indians had back-to-back blasts in a game.
Donaldson's home run was his first hit with the Indians since being acquired on August 31 in a trade with the Blue Jays after clearing waivers.
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