From this week’s Sports Illustrated:
66-32: Margin by which the last-place Indians have been outscored in the eighth inning this year.
364-357: Margin by which the Indians have outscored their opponents in all other innings.
Enough said.
One sentence summaries of this game:
There’s always next year.
Way to pull it together for the middle innings, Westbrook. (It’s too bad he gets the loss and the guy who makes more money than the entire Cleveland roster gets the win.)
At least I’ll have more time for school work in the next week or so.
For [...]
That’s pretty much all it is right now, from the perspective of an Indians fan.
We saw Cleveland lose to the Yankees on Friday… it’s hard to score when you strike out 11 times and only get four hits. Then the next day they lost again 11-2. And last night, in a marvelous attempt [...]
I’m “watching” the espn.com scoreboard to see how today’s Indians-Yankees game will finish. The Tribe’s currently up by three (score: 5-2) with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Borowski (”closer”) is pitching, but don’t worry – it’s not a save situation, because he gave up a homer earlier in this inning.
But [...]
Last night, I saw (on Detroit television, thanks to the annual Aukerman family reunion, which was held north of Fort Wayne this year) the Indians blow the remainder of a five run lead to the Tigers. With two on and nobody out in the bottom of the eighth (Tigers batting), and with the Indians [...]
So my parents, Randy, Carrie, Tara, and I all went down to Cincinnati to watch the Reds/Indians game last night. After a five-run top of the first inning for the Tribe, my dad and I were feeling pretty good about things. Starter Paul Byrd pitched six innings of shutout baseball, and the lead [...]
