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Game 142: Indians 13, Royals 6


We're now headlong into baseball's garbage time - especially when a non-playoff team comes to town - and wins and losses don't mean a whole lot, but it was nice to see to see the individual performances that lead to tonight's blowout win. David Huff went six innings, and seemed much more in control of things than earlier in the season. The Royals sent out to the mound a panoply of bad pitchers, and the Indians did what they were supposed to do, knocking out 17 hits (eight of them for extra bases) and scoring 13 runs. 

Foremost among the contributors to this offensive outburst was Michael Brantley, who went 4-for-5 on the evening. His career-beginning hitting streak ended at eight the night before, so he made up for the hitless night tonight. Five of his teammates also had multiple hits, including Jamey Carroll (3-5, 2 2B), and Asdrubal Cabrera (2-4, 2 2B, BB). Even the already infamous Niuman Romero got his first major-league hit tonight. 

Even though the first two paragraphs hint at a blowout from the beginning, it wasn't so. The Royals lead 3-2 after the top of the fifth, and the Indians really broke the game open in the seventh, when they scored six runs off two Royals relievers, both of whom were September callups.

Next Up: Davies vs. Carrasco, 1:05 PM

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Highest WPA Lowest WPA
Shin-Soo Choo .243 Chris Gimenez -.069
Jhonny Peralta .167 Travis Hafner -.063
Jamey Carroll .139 David Huff -.057

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Does anyone want two tickets to tomorrow’s game? vbc3 and I scored two sets, two tickets each, in two different sections. The ones up for grabs are section 167, row N, seats 3 and 4.

If you can meet us outside the stadium at Bob Feller’s statue at 12:15pm for the handoff, that would be great. E-mail me at the address in my profile. First come, first served.

CFO of Klezmer

by salome on Sep 13, 2009 12:42 AM EDT reply actions  

Still available! They’re free, guys.

CFO of Klezmer

by salome on Sep 13, 2009 11:42 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Losers!

CFO of Klezmer

by salome on Sep 13, 2009 12:45 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

I wanted to go. But I wasn’t sure I’d make it.

Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?

by ClemsonGirl on Sep 13, 2009 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Here is part of Dennis Manoloff’s lead in the PD this morning:

“As a bad season grinds through its final weeks, the Tribe will take any victory it can get and be grateful.”

If you are paid to write about baseball, and if you have no clue that wins and losses are totally irrelevant at this point, you should be fired.

And by the way, I know people around here piled on me earlier this season when I constantly harped on Hoynes, but check out the latest Hey Hoynsie. It’s a pile of disrespectful, idiotic pabulum.

by tabler84 on Sep 13, 2009 10:29 AM EDT reply actions  

They shouldn’t be irrelevant to the players.

The once and future

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Sep 13, 2009 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

It is nice to have a rookie hitter come in and actually get off to a hot start. Is Brantley the first position player since Francisco to get off to a hot start?

by APV on Sep 13, 2009 11:36 AM EDT reply actions  

True. I tend to think Asdrubal was never a rookie and simply always an undervalued veteran.

by APV on Sep 13, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

I still think of him as the youngest player in Triple-A.

by Jay on Sep 13, 2009 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

Choo’s home run was his first to right field since July 3.

by TribeJay on Sep 14, 2009 12:12 AM EDT reply actions  

That’s kind of amazing.

by Roger Dorn on Sep 14, 2009 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, he is so focused on that inside-out stroke. That inherently is good, but he’s been getting beat by inside fastballs for awhile. Last year he figured out how to turn on that pitch, but he’s had that disappear on him in the second half. Maybe he’s fatigued, he hasn’t played this much in awhile (or ever). Still having a very good second half, but I think more is in there.

Maybe he had his career year in the second half last year, but I still think he has a chance of hitting .300/.420/.550 in the next year or two. If not, we’ll have what we got this year, which is still really nice.

by TribeJay on Sep 15, 2009 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

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