Game One Hundred Thirteen: Rays 10, Indians 7

by Ryan on Aug 6, 2008 4:54 PM EDT in Game Recaps Comment 15 comments

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"Obviously," Wedge said, "we have a lot to work out in our bullpen."

This game had a bit of everything, some good, some laughably bad.

Jeremy Sowers was pretty decent, which is a big improvement over his first few starts. He gave up three first inning runs, but settled in and left the game with the Indians leading.

Wedge sat Grady Sizemore sat in order to take advantage of today's off day, and although the lineup looked inept, it managed to knock Scott Kazmir out by the fifth inning. Jhonny Peralta, who's having his best offensive season since 2005, went 5-5, three of his five hits going for extra bases.

Eric Wedge had to perform some lineup gymnastics during the game, thanks to two unexpected events. First, Ryan Garko, who was the DH, didn't run out a ground ball early in the game and was benched in favor of Andy Marte. Which wouldn't have been anything more than an internal matter if not for Asdrubal Cabrera twisting his ankle running out of the dugout later. Because the Indians would have lost the DH if Marte had moved to third base, Wedge ended up moving Sal Fasano to first base, and shifting everyone else around (Carroll to second, Gonzalez to third).

All of which lead up to the ninth inning. Edward Mujica, who relieved Rafael Perez after two good innings, gave up the lead by giving up extra-base hits (two doubles and a homer) to the first three batters of the inning. Masa Kobayashi was then summoned, and he proceeded to give up three more runs at a quicker rate (it took Mujica nine pitches to cough up his runs; Kobayashi was one pitch more efficient).

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Tonight is Ryan Garko bobblehead night in Buffalo

by palcal on Aug 6, 2008 7:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Eddie Poojica

by JulioBernazard on Aug 6, 2008 7:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Masa Kobayucky

by JulioBernazard on Aug 6, 2008 7:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Amazingly to me, the Indians are still 46-3 when leading after 8. Of course, they are only 2-11 when tied after 8,

The Indians are 37-28 (65 games) when they score first, but only 12-36 (48 games)
when the opponent scores first.

by palcal on Aug 6, 2008 8:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Masa Kobayashi is reinforcing the stereotype of Japanese efficiency. While Eddie Mujica squandered 9 pitches in allowing his three runs, Masa managed to give up his three runs with only 8 pitches.

Your 2008 bullpen plays name that tune.

by InfiniteMonkeyTypists on Aug 6, 2008 8:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Your 2008 bullpen plays the lute.

by odradek on Aug 7, 2008 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Your 2008 bullpen plays to lose.

by JulioBernazard on Aug 7, 2008 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Go Rays!

by jhon on Aug 6, 2008 9:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

On a positive note, we didn’t help the Yankees.

by DixonCayne on Aug 6, 2008 11:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Guys guys guys… it could’ve been worse. It could’ve been six runs in 16 pitches…

If you need me, I'll be senselessly rooting for Sizemore 40/40 for the remainder of 2008.

by gte619n on Aug 7, 2008 8:46 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Surely, we can get a new LGT “banner phrase” or whatever you call those things out of this debacle?

by JulioBernazard on Aug 7, 2008 10:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

So Jay/Ryan, is this bullpen as bad as 2006 yet? It must be pretty darn close.

by talonk on Aug 7, 2008 10:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

In terms of WPA, they are worse this year (-7.0 vs -6.6). Only Perez has been above average.

by oxforddave on Aug 7, 2008 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They have a -4.029 WXRL, good for last in baseball, 5.703 behind the 29th place Mariners. In 2006, they were 29th with a -1.533 WXRL

by 7foot3 on Aug 8, 2008 7:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

you know, it’s a shame the game had to end that way…it really would have been fun to see how long the ‘pen could have kept going w/o recording an out. 6 runs ain’t sh*t—toss a 1-2 of Raffy B. – Mastny out there? you could easily stretch it to 8-10

by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 7, 2008 4:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs