This game was marred by an ugly injury to Tigers starter Willie Blair when he was hit by a Julio Franco line drive with two outs in the sixth. Blair would suffer a broken jaw but thankfully miss just a month before returning the mound to continue the best season of his big league career. And this was a good start, as he held the Tribe to just five hits and two walks with four strikeouts over his 5 2/3. John Cummings and Doug Brocail finished what Blair had started, with the only Cleveland baserunner for the rest of the game coming on a ninth-inning Franco walk.
Charlie Nagy pitched eight strong innings, although he uncharacteristically surrendered six walks. He departed after loading the bases with no one out in the ninth, with Paul Assenmacher and Jose Mesa cleaning up his mess unscathed, although the lack of Tribe offense made that a moot point.
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