So I was out last night, all night. And when I returned to my apartment
I sat down at 11:10pm and somewhat recall the first inning, and then
while getting ready this morning I caught the next two...and that was
it. This is the first game I wasn't going to fully watch all year, and
the Tribe responded with a 4-1 loss to Seattle. Lesson has been
learned, I will catch at least 78% of every game before I work so that
the Tribe gets my kharma for as much of the game as they can. When I
turned it off we were down 3-1, so while I missed the last 6 innings, I
did see most of the action it appears.
Derek Lowe got the start for the Indians, with the goal of eating up
some innings to save the bullpen, which has been used a lot this year
due to some extra inning games, and bad starts. However he could only
last 4.2 innings which isn't good. However, I could tell he wasn't
going to last long from what I saw. This was just one of those games he
couldn't locate the plate at all. When you allow a bases loaded walk,
you know the command just isn't there, and for him to make it thru the
innings that he did is pretty impressive. The sinker was a bit high all
night, and that results in fly balls, which is what happened in the
first when we fell behind 2-0 behind HRs by IIIIIIICCCCHHIIIIRROOOOOOO
and Chone Figgins.
The hitting had an off night against Jason Vargas who pitched pretty
well all night. He mixed up his pitches, he has a good fastball, and
then a big dip in the mph on his change-up and curve that kept our bats
off balance all night. Even with Acta giving Hannahan and Brantley off
against the lefty, the subs were actually the hitters last night.
Lopez, Cunningham, Santana, and Kipnis accounted for our 4 hits, and
Cunningham was the only run scored after he lead off an inning with a
double. Then Jason Donald bunted him over, and Kipnis hit a sacrifice
fly. Since I missed 6 innings of Indians scoreless baseball I have to
rely on the boxscore to determine what went wrong with the hitting,
which is always dangerous. All I can see is Vargas did his job, and we
were off balance. They brought in Wilhelmsen in the 8th for the hold,
and he usually owns us, and their closer Brandon League is hot right
now, and benefited from our hitters being confused for 8 innings.
Quick Observations:
Bullpen Mafia Does it again - Our starters did great the first time thru
the rotation, and since have been up and down. However once they leave
its not all bad, because our bullpen is the backbone of this team like
it was last season. After holding the fort down after Masterson allowed
8 runs, they did the same again for Lowe. They went 3.2 innings
allowing 0 runs, the only difference is the offense never was able to
get back in the game. Different guys last night too, Ascensio,
Hagadone, and Wheeler got the call.
Choo didn't get a hit, but... - Choo is hitting .237 early in the
season, and went hitless last night. But, he does have an OBP of .420
and walked 3 times last night too. Thus far what I have seen from Choo,
I like. He may not hit for a high average yet, but he will, and even if
he isn't hitting great, he cashes in everytime there is an RBI
opportunity.
Suspension - Jeanmar Gomez will be suspended 5 games for plunking
Moustakis back in the KC series. He is appealing and will make his
start against Oakland this weekend. Honestly, this is a dumb
suspension. It was a retaliation and intentional for sure. Yes
warnings were already issued, and then he still did it. However, a
suspension? No. He hit him in the lower back, clearly avoiding
anything that would be construed as 'dangerous', and it wasn't like he
went in the paper like Ubaldo and said he hated Moustakis. Let the boys
play. Hannahan got fined...he deserves it. Yet I think the league did
not suspend him only because by going to Seattle he has cooled down. He
seems much calmer right now, and I think that he is quitting the Pronk
Bars cold turkey.
I was wrong last time, but TONIGHT Josh Tomlin will show off his Cy
Young arm as he duels King Felix.
Go Tribe
Hitters AB R H RBI BB SO #P AVG OBP SLG
J Donald SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 8 .235 .250 .235
J Kipnis 2B 3 0 1 1 0 1 18 .200 .250 .475
S Choo RF 1 0 0 0 3 1 23 .237 .420 .289
C Santana C 4 0 1 0 0 3 22 .250 .400 .528
T Hafner DH 3 0 0 0 1 1 13 .281 .378 .500
S Duncan LF 4 0 0 0 0 2 19 .290 .463 .516
J Lopez 3B 4 0 1 0 0 1 7 .231 .231 .538
C Kotchman 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0 11 .195 .250 .366
A Cunningham CF 3 1 1 0 0 0 9 .231 .286 .308
Totals 29 1 4 1 4 9 130
BATTING
2B: A Cunningham (1, J Vargas)
RBI: J Kipnis (8)
S: J Donald
SF: J Kipnis
Indians RISP: 0-4 (S Choo 0-1, C Santana 0-1, J Lopez 0-1, S Duncan 0-1)
Team LOB: 7
FIELDING
DP: 2 (J Donald-J Kipnis-C Kotchman, A Cunningham-C Kotchman).
Outfield Assist: A Cunningham (D Ackley at 1st base).
Cleveland Indians
Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
D Lowe
(L, 2-1) 4.1 8 4 4 6 0 2 113-63 3.50
J Asencio 1.2 0 0 0 1 0 0 21-13 4.66
N Hagadone 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15-9 0.00
D Wheeler 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17-11 6.23
Totals 8.0 8 4 4 7 3 2 166-96
PITCHING
First-pitch strikes/Batters faced: D Lowe 16/25; J Asencio 2/5; N
Hagadone 2/3; D Wheeler 2/3
Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In Play strikes: D Lowe
17-2-27-17; J Asencio 3-2-4-4; N Hagadone 0-4-4-1; D Wheeler 2-2-5-2
Ground Balls-Fly Balls: D Lowe 6-6; J Asencio 2-2; N Hagadone 0-1; D
Wheeler 2-0
Game Scores: D Lowe 25
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