Last night was our 60th game. The Tribe is on a pace to win 111 games. Heh.
Credit to the Tribe hitters, even though they've only managed three hits so far today: it's clear that our lights out starter will start the eighth while their lights out starter will not (and comes out after throwing 116 freaking pitches).
That gives us two innings against an awful bullpen. Hopefully good things will happen.
The nice things about C.C. is there's no real reason to have someone hit for him, either.
AND he gets another hit. Unreal.
Sowers got sent down at long last. The Tribe recalled Matt Miller, which is nice as I think he can do good stuff as a situational reliever (his strikeout numbers in rehab were impressive, his ERA less so). The obvious question is: who are they going to bring up for Thursday? Even if Miller is healthy, that would be his first game back -- would they really have him come off the DL for his Major League debut? That would seem like a bad decision.
My guess is Jason Stanford. But that's just me.
Okay, so C.C. was on second and Grady was on first and Casey was at the plate. And the announcers for the Reds wondered why Casey wasn't bunting. And I'm sure most of Northeast Ohio is probably complaining about it.
But let' face facts: with one out already, a bunt would still require SOMEONE to get a clean hit. Basically, bunting would give the Tribe one chance to get a hit to score someone, while NOT bunting gives the Tribe TWO chances to get a hit.
Irrelevant after Blake popped up, yes, but I'll defend that decision.
Okay, granted, now that Victor singled that looks like a bad choice, but I stand by it still.
Garko worries me a bit. He's hitting .400 with the bases loaded, but he looks really amped -- maybe too amped for this position.
Yeah, that foul pop up didn't help his adrenaline. I think we all saw him striking out on that last pitch.
So here comes C.C., and it's another 1-2-3. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see him come out at the bottom of the ninth, regardless of what the Tribe is able to put together in their half of the inning.
Trot flies out to shallow center. Nixon's kind of cooled off lately, which is probably why we're seeing Gutierrez more lately.
JP's up and I can't see him going O fer today... But I've been wrong before.
Franklin to the plate...and another pop up. Geez, this is getting old.
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That 111 games sounds good right about now. That's a nice thought after today's sad loss, and the sort of disappointing weekend.
I'm officially mad at the offense after Sunday's performance. We can't give our ace ONE RUN while he pitches a three-hit shutout??
Michaels was safe at the plate, but still...
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