It was an exciting end to the game on Tuesday night but the Cleveland Indians rally came up just short and the Indians lost to the San Francisco Giants by the score of 3-2. Kelly Shoppach was up to bat with two outs in the ninth inning with two runners on base but struckout to end the game.
Rafael Betancourt ended up taking the loss after pitching 1 1/3 inning. Masa Kobayashi also gave up a run in relief after Betancourt left the game. Both of those runs really hurt the Indians as they were in line to win the game up until that eighth inning.
Indians starting pitcher Aaron Laffey pitched the first 6 2/3 innings of the game and didn’t do that badly. Laffey allowed four hits and only one run in the game. It is too bad that the bullpen blew it and he ended up with a no decision in the game.
The Indians were the first team to score in the game as Ryan Garko had a rbi single in the first inning that scored Grady Sizemore. Dave Delluci had a rbi ground out in the ninth inning that scored the Indians second run. It would have been awesome to see the rally happen in the ninth inning, but as we mentioned before Shoppach just couldn’t get the job done.
