Sea of Red

Two years ago I took a trip back home to Ohio and was able to go to an Indans game with my dad and my brother. It was July 14th and we watched Kevin Milwood pitch a great game, only to lose 1-0 to the hated White Sox.

Tonight's game was almost as painful.

Nothing can be as bad as losing to the stinking White Sox, but losing 2-3 to the Angels while surrounded by a sea of red is pretty close. It's not that I dislike the Angels by any means, it's just that it's hard not to be annoyed by 40,000 people jumping up and down because their team just hit a home run to tie it.

As luck would have it, however, I was in the bathroom when Cabrera gave up the go ahead homer.

In the end, though, if you live by clutch hitting, you die by clutch hitting, and tonight the Indians died by it. The fact that we forced the Angels' starter to throw nearly 50 pitches in two innings and didn't do more damage is both shocking and sad.

Angels Stadium is nice, but it's no Jake. The rock/water fixture is just silly and there's barely an announcer. It's not surprising that the fans got behind the Rally Monkey as the Rally Monkey seems to be the only attempt at fan interaction at the game.

That said, it was a Wednesday night and they had more than 40,000 people there. How many people did the Tribe get on their last Wednesday night game?

There were a decent number of Indians' fans there, too, actually. And an Angel fan yelled "Rick Vaughn" at me. That was weird.

At least the Tigers lost. Blown chance to increase our lead, but at least we're still in first.