It can take time for a team to build a home field advantage when breaking in a new ballpark.
It must really suck to have to play in a dump like that that only cost $1+ billion with the biggest payroll in MLB.
Well actually new or not the Indians have even less experience at the new ballpark so that excuse doesn't fly. They got whooped big time!
I’d heard a NY Post columnist dubbed the new park “The House That Mute Built”. A lot quieter because the REAL fans are in the bleachers far from home plate and far from TV/radio mics...meanwhile mega expensive seats behind home plate go unsold; supposedly the Fri game had 7,000 empty seats.