Indians may have to grovel to get agreement for that.  If the MLB could require Seattle to come to Cleveland in both May and June, that could be leverage to schedule a DH instead.

However, they may hold 1 game in abeyance until the end of the season to see if it matters.  However, if 3 or 4 games are postponed, I bet some of the games are played in Seattle.  It would be unrealistic to make up more than 2 games after the final Sunday of the season.  Even 1 is a problem if you hope to succeed in the postseason.

Otherwise, the most creative solution is to play the series during the All-Star break, damn all baseball tradition, players' agreements, and Fox.

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/mariners/

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/archives/113711.asp

Either way, Westbrook set for Tuesday.

http://indians.scout.com/2/633746.html

Moving Angels series to Anaheim?

http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070408&content_id=1887336&vkey=news_ cle&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle

So Cleveland would be the "home team" in Anaheim
and get the home team split of the walk-up gate for the transferred series.

Unfortunately, this would also set a current precedent for moving the Seattle make-up games to Seattle.

We'll see Monday at 8am how "unlikely" this scenario is.

Hello everyone,

I understand that there isn't much we can do in regards to the weather, but referring to the series with Anaheim (or Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim if you prefer :-), how much of an advantage will we have as the home team?

Yes, we'll bat last and get the home team revenue (nice that we'll get that revenue to make up for our lost "home" dates,) but the Angels will be more used to the stadium, both in terms of knowing the stadium and knowing the backdrop, which will allow them to pick up the ball better than we will, at least initially, so I'm not sure how much of an advantage we'll have as the "home team."

Granted, it's the right thing to do, since these were supposed to be Indians' home games, and the Angels did lose to the A's today 2-1, so that might have slowed them down a bit, but still, I hope we can keep and build on the momentum we had had in the first week of the season.  We can't avoid a prolonged slump or swoon from the wacky weather and situation that occurred over this weekend, not with the way the AL Central is predicted to shape up.

Just my 2 cents.  :-)

Speaking of other games, after Riske saved his first game for the Royals the other day, he blew the save today - his reason - he thought Pudge would be bunting with two on, no outs, with the Tigers down 2-0 in the Top of the 9th in KC, so he threw a down-the-middle-of-the-plate meatball to Pudge, who deposited into the LF seats for a 3-run HR.  

Oops - I guess he forgot that the road team usually goes for the win rather than the tie, huh?

Anyway, you can read more about the game and what happened here.