The Cleveland Indians finished up a very dissapointing series with the Colorado Rockies with a 6-3 loss. The loss on Thursday was the third straight loss to the Rockies and the Indians are sure glad to get out of the Rocky Mountains. The Indians hitters never really got going at Coors Field. Maybe they were just trying to hit home runs all the time, but they sure struggled all series long. The Indians pitchers sure didn’t have any problems giving up runs either however.
On Thursday night it was Jeremy Sowers taking the loss and dropping to 0-2 on the season. Sowers pitched six innings and gave up ten hits and four runs. Jeff Baker hit a solo home run off of Sowers in the sixth inning. Other then that the other three runs were all scored on singles.
Masa Kobayashi had a rough outing as he gave up a pair of two run singles in the seventh inning and allowed two more runs to score. Those two runs were pretty big as they were two insurance runs for the Rockies. Joe Borowski came in and pitched a scoreless ninth inning to hold the Rockies at six runs.
Ben Francisco hit a two run home run in the first inning but then the Indians didn’t score again until the sixth inning when Casey Blake hit a solo home run. Now that is why I wonder if the Indians batters were swinging for the fences the entire series. They know how Coors Field plays, and I think they were all going up there to hit a home run, instead they were either striking out or flying out. Shorten those swings and just get some singles and doubles boys.
The left right away out of Denver and flew to Los Angeles where they will begin a three game weekend series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Let’s see if the Indians can turn things around and get some wins out in L.A.
