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CLEVELAND (AP) — Knowing a heavy rainstorm was on its way http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-orlando-arcia-jersey , s quickly as possible Thursday.Even if it meant giving his teammates a nudge.Carrasco held Chicago to two hits, Jordan Luplow hit his first two home runs of the season and the Indians defeated the White Sox 5-0 in a game that was called after five innings following a rain delay of 2 hours, 34 minutes.Article continues below ...Carrasco was told a day earlier that rain was likely. When Roberto Perez started throwing the ball around the infield following one of the right-hander’s six strikeouts, Carrasco quickly put a stop to it.“I said ‘No, just give me the ball,’ ” he said. “I knew it was going to rain. I wanted to get through the fifth inning.”The rain began to fall steadily in the third and continued before the umpires called for the tarp prior to the top of the sixth as Carrasco was ready to take his warmup pitches.“I was there, but they came to fix the mound and that’s when they put the tarp on,” Carrasco said.The rain stopped and the tarp was briefly pulled after about two hours, and the grounds crew worked on the infield. The tarp was placed back on the field because the radar showed more rain was headed to the area. The game was called at 5:28 p.m. during a heavy rain.“It is what it is,” White Sox manager Rick Renteria said. “Mother Nature is kind of hard to control.”Chicago right fielder Charlie Tilson slipped and fell on the wet grass in the fifth as he camped under a fly ball hit by Francisco Lindor that landed for an RBI double. The play capped a three-run inning.Left fielder Nicky Delmonico battled the rain and the footing to catch José Ramirez’s fly ball.“Charlie got to the ball,” Renteria said. “His left foot lost footing from underneath him. Even the last fly ball that was hit to Nicky, you could see he very cautious making sure that would not happen to him.”Carrasco (3-3) struck out six and didn’t walk a batter. The right-hander gave up an infield hit to José Abreu in the first before retiring the next nine hitters. Yonder Alonso doubled with two outs in the fourth, but Carrasco struck out James McCann to end an 11-pitch at-bat.Carrasco allowed a career-high four home runs against Seattle on Saturday.Luplow hit solo homers in the second and fifth off Manny Banuelos (2-2) helping Cleveland gain a split of the four-game series.Chicago’s left-hander had a rocky second inning in which he gave up a leadoff homer to Luplow, a wild pitch that allowed a runner to score from second base and three walks.Luplow’s first home run landed in the left field bleachers. After two walks, Banuelos’ pitch to Tyler Naquin was in the dirt. The ball rolled toward Chicago’s dugout and Jake Bauers scored from second standing up before McCann retrieved it.Banuelos appeared to get hit on the upper part of his pitching arm by Carlos Santana’s one-hop grounder to the mound, but remained in the game. He allowed five runs in 4 1/3 innings.Luplow homered to center with one out in the fifth. Ramirez singled in the first and has reached base in 18 consecutive games, the longest active streak in the AL.TRAINER’S ROOMWhite Sox: OF Leury Garcia (bruised thumb) started for the first time since Monday and was hitless in two at-bats.Indians: RHP Mike Clevinger (strained muscle in upper back) has played catch several times this week. He’s expected to return in June.LONG AT-BATCarrasco won the battle against McCann, who is batting .350 for the season and has a .392 average over his past 14 games.“I threw every pitch — fastball Christian Yelich Jersey , changeup, slider — everything,” Carrasco said. “I threw a slider on the 10th pitch. He took a big swing. Then I went back to another slider for the strikeout.”GETTING BETTERThe White Sox are 16-20 after going 9-27 through 36 games last season. Chicago didn’t win its 17th game until June 1 a year ago.UP NEXTWhite Sox: RHP Dylan Covey (0-1, 4.50 ERA) will make his first career start against Toronto in the opener of a three-game series Friday.Indians: RHP Cody Anderson (0-1, 11.12 ERA) is scheduled for his second start of the season in the opener of a three-game series in Oakland on Friday. MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Steve Pearce will start the season on the injured list for the Boston Red Sox.The 2018 World Series MVP exited an exhibition game last weekend due to discomfort in his left calf. Pearce, a right-handed batter, normally platoons with lefty-hitting Mitch Moreland at first base. But the Red Sox will begin defense of their championship Thursday in Seattle without Pearce.“We have to do it that way,” manager Alex Cora said Monday night. “It makes sense for us, it makes sense for him. He should be back sooner rather than later but he won’t be ready for Seattle, so why take a chance?”Sam Travis will likely make the team and take Pearce’s spot on the opening-day roster.“He’s been swinging the bat, he plays first, he’s a right-handed hitter,” Cora said. “It seems like we’re going to face a lot of lefties on the West Coast. Having a right-handed bat would help us out.”Pearce was acquired from Toronto in a trade last June and batted a combined .284 with 11 homers, 42 RBIs and an .890 OPS in 76 games with the Blue Jays and Red Sox last season. He was 4 for 12 (.333) with three homers, eight RBIs and a 1.167 OPS in the World Series victory against the Los Angeles Dodgers.Pearce became a free agent and re-signed with Boston for one year and $6.25 million.Boston nearly lost another player to a much more serious injury when pitcher Rick Porcello was hit in the head by a line drive during Monday night’s 3-2 exhibition loss to the Chicago Cubs.Willson Contreras hit a liner that deflected off Porcello’s head in the second inning. Porcello, however, was checked by an athletic trainer http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-orlando-arcia-jersey , threw a few warmup pitches and stayed in the game.Cora was doubtful at first about keeping Porcello in the game. The right-hander told the trainer to touch his head where the ball hit him.“He barked like a dog and scared the living whatever out of me,” said Cora, who jumped off the mound. “I told him, ‘Now I’m going to be on TV for the rest of my career for the wrong reasons.'”Porcello was able to laugh about the play after his outing.“It ricocheted,” he said. “I got up, I felt fine, I wasn’t wobbly or dizzy or anything like that. I was fine.”In his final tuneup for the regular season, Porcello gave up two runs and four hits over four innings, including a solo homer to opposing pitcher Cole Hamels in the third.“He’s tough,” Hamels said. “I don’t know where it hit him. We don’t have instant replay — and I’m glad we don’t so we didn’t have to relive it. He looked fine when he was coming off.”In other news, Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia will start Tuesday in the spring training finale against the Cubs. Pedroia was limited to three games last season after undergoing a microfracture procedure and cartilage replacement in his left knee in October 2017.The 35-year-old Pedroia hosted Red Sox players and coaches Sunday night at his home in the Phoenix area.“He’s in a good place,” Cora said. “I was joking with him because for that kid who played in Anaheim, in his first big league game in 2006, I still remember he was 5-6, chubby. He hates that I say that but he was. To see the house he has, I’m like, ‘Wow. You did well, bro. What a story http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-orlando-arcia-jersey , you should write a book.’ It was amazing. Obviously, in this environment, you go to some nice houses. They should do that show again — ‘Cribs’ — and go to Pedroia’s.”How important would it be for the Red Sox to get a healthy Pedroia back?“It’s good,” Cora said. “Forget the player – for him to be happy, that’s the most important thing. Last year, he was great for us in the clubhouse, he was a leader, he was another coach. He still can play. You see him on a daily basis and he’s smiling a little more, he’s talking again, he’s loud. When he’s loud, he’s in a good place. We’re very happy with the progression.“Whenever he comes back, I know he’s going to contribute,” Cora said. “We can’t get too excited. We have to be patient. We have to be disciplined with this.”NOTES: The Red Sox plan to set the order of their rotation after David Price’s exhibition start Tuesday against the Cubs. Price might pitch one inning and that could be enough, Cora said. “He feels good right now,” the manager added. “If he feels like pitching one inning tomorrow is enough. That means he’ll probably pitch in Seattle early.”