Cleveland at Oakland

Cleveland is a long way from home playing its fourth consecutive contest on the West Coast. It's also their fourth road game in four days. Starter Carlos Carrasco comes off a season with a brutal 6.80 ERA with his strikeout totals way down (66 in 90 innings) from his early days. He's had ERAs over 6 in two of the last three years. Cleveland is 11-21 after two or more straight wins, plus 7-17 after allowing 4 runs or less in three consecutive games. Oakland plays its fourth straight home game. This is a good park for pitchers and starter Paul Blackburn had a 3.57 ERA at home last year. With Oakland 324-300 against AL teams averaging 5.4+ runs, back home field. Play Oakland.