The Cleveland Indians picked up a very nice win on Monday night as they beat the Boston Red Sox by the score of 4-3. The win was big for the Indians as the Red Sox are in the playoff race and are out there battling for every win that they can come up with.

The Indians beat Josh Beckett which was even more impressive. Shin-Soo Choo, Jamey Carroll, Asdrubal Cabrera, and Travis Hafner all had an rbi in the game. There wasn’t much offense, but the Indians did the best with their opportunities and that is why they came away with the victory.

Zach Jackson was the winning pitcher as he tossed six innings and only gave up six hits and two runs. It was a very good quality start for Jackson who improved his season record to 1-3. Rafael Perez gave up one run in relief before Jensen Lewis finished things up to get his 12th save of the year.

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The Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles kicked off a series on Monday night and things did not go good for the Indians. They tribe’s pitcher just had problems all night long with keeping the ball down and the Orioles batters made them pay with four home runs.

Fausto Carmona got rocked in the game as he only lasted 5 1/3 innings. He was charged with six hits and seven runs. Carmona also walked four while striking out five in the game. He got into trouble in the sixth inning when he was pulled after only getting one out. Juan Rincon was unable to get out of the jam in the sixth inning as he was also charged with two runs. Brendan Donnelly had a terrible inning in the eighth as Adam Jones took him deep for a three run shot and then Ramon Hernandez added a two run home run that extended the Orioles lead to 14-3.

Asdrubal Cabrera got the Indians on the scoreboard in the second inning when he hit a ground rule double that scored Shin-Soo Choo. Cabrera then added a rbi single in the fourth inning as he finished the game with two rbil. The other run for the tribe came in the fifth inning when Franklin Gutierrez hit a rbi sac fly that scored Ryan Garko.

Hopefully the Indians can bounce back on Tuesday night and even up the series at one game each.

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The Cleveland Indians were attempting to sweep the Chicago White Sox in a three game series but they came up short on Wednesday afternoon as they lost 4-2. The pitching wasn’t too bad in the game, the Indians offense just couldn’t get anything going against White Sox starting pitcher Javier Vazquez.

The only two runs that the tribe were able to get off of the White Sox came in the sixth inning when Jhonny Peralta doubled to score Asdrubal Cabrera and Grady Sizemore. Other then that double, the Indians struggled at the plate and when they did have a little rally going, they grounded into doubleplays.

Jeremy Sowers started the game off awesome but ran into trouble as he only pitched 5 1/3 innings. Sowers took the loss after being charged with all four runs that the White Sox scored. Three of the four runs the White Sox scored came via the home run ball as they took Sowers deep twice in the game.

The Indians will now be off on Thursday and will begin a weekend series with the Kansas City Royals.

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It was a big offensive night for the Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles as the two teams combined to score 17 runs and pound out 30 hits. The Bad news for the Tribe was the Orioles used a eight run eighth inning to win the game. The Indians did score three runs in the final inning to make things interesting but they just could’t come out of the big hole completely and the Orioles won 11-6

Rafael Perez took the loss as he was charged with three hits and four runs while not recording an out. Edward Mujica also gave up three hits and four runs in the eighth inning as he couldn’t stop the bleeding. Indians starting pitcher Zach Jackson gave up eight hits and three runs over five innings as he got the no decision.

Shin-Soo Choo led the Tribe at the plate with two rbi as he had a two run double in the first inning. Franklin Gutierrez, Kelly Shoppach, Ryan Garko, and Asdrubal Cabrera all helped out with one rbi each but it wasn’t even close to being enough.

The Indians now have a tough weekend ahead of them as they have to play the Los Angeles Angels. I don’t see good things happening in this series.

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Casey Blake cracked two home runs and finished with seven rbi as the Cleveland Indians beat the Texas Rangers on Monday night by the score of 13-9.  It seemed like the teams were playing home run derby out there as both teams combined for six home runs in the game.

Besides Blake’s huge night, Ben Francisco had a two run home run and finished the game with three rbi.  David Dellucci also added a two run home run in the eighth inning and Asdrubal Cabrera had a rbi double in the third inning.  That is a lot of production up and down the lineup for the Indians.

Masa Kobayashi pitched 1 2/3 innings to get the victory for the Indians.  Kobayashi did give up one run in but still picked up his third win of the season.  Rafael Perez and Joe Borowski pitched the final  2 1/3 innings to finish up the game.

Starting pitcher, Aaron Laffey was roughed up in only five innings of action.  Laffey gave up 11 hits and eight runs as he was hit very hard all night long.

In the end however, it was a good win for the Indians.  Indians Blog

The Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays played in two pitchers duels on Monday afternoon and night as the both teams picked up one win and one loss.  The Indians picked up a win in the first game as Fausto Carmona tossed a complete game shutout and the Indians won 3-0.

David Delluci got the Indians on the board in the first game with a rbi single in the sixth inning and then Asdrubal Cabrera had a two run home run in the seventh inning.  It was a good thing as well because the Indians only had five hits in the game.

Onto the second game, it was the Indians on the losing end of a 3-0 game once again.  The Indians only came up with three hits in the game.  No wonder why they were shutout lol.

Cliff Lee had tossed nine full inning and gave up seven hits but no runs in the game.  No runs support for him however as he took home the no decision.  Asdrubal Cabrera pitched the tenth inning and allowed all three runs as he took the loss to drop his record to 1-2.

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The Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners battled for 11 innings on Thursday night and it was the Indians coming out on top with the 3-2 victory.  The Indians gave up the lead in the ninth inning, and then had to score runs in the tenth and eleventh innings to finally beat the Mariners.

Rafael Betancourt blew the save in the ninth inning and then Masa Kobayashi pitched the final two innings of the game to pick up the win.  Starting pitcher Paul Byrd tossed 7.2 innings of four hit baseball as he got the no decision.

Asdrubal Cabrera only had one hit in the game as he went 1-4, but that one hit was the game winning hit in the eleventh inning.  Cabrera singled to right and scored Jason Michaels for the winning run.  The Indians tied the game in the tenth inning when Grady Sizemore walked with the bases loaded.  The other run for the Indians came in the fourth inning when Travis Hafner doubled to score Victor Martinez.

It was a good win for the Indians who are now 14-15 in the season and only one game away from the .500 mark.

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The Cleveland Indians scored in all innings except the first, sixth, and ninth as they went onto pound the Kansas City Royals 15-1 on Tuesday night.  The win improved the Indians record to 8-12 and will hopefully give them some momentum to get back to .500 soon.

Casey Blake led the Indians with six RBI.  Black finished the game going 4-4 including a grand slam in the fourth inning.  Franklin Gutierrez picked up three RBI with a bases clearing double in the eigth inning.  David Dellucci had two RBI and he also hit a solo home run.  Travis Hafner, Asdrubal Cabrera, and Jhonny Peralta all had one RBI each.  Peralta’s RBI came on a solo home run.

C.C. Sabathia finally picked up his first win on the season after he pitched six innings of four hit ball.  Sabathia did not allow a run and struckout 11 batters while walking two.  Great start for Sabathia!  Jorge Julio, Jensen Lewis, and Rafael Betancourt pitched the final three innings.  Lewis allowed one run to cross the plate but Julio and Betancourt did pretty good.

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Travis Hafner hit a two-run homerun in the top of the 9th inning and Jake Westbrook shut down the Los Angeles Angeles as the Cleveland Indians won 4-3 on Tuesday night.  The Indians were down when Hafner took Justin Speier deep with two outs in the 9th inning.

Westbrook rned his first complete game since 2006, giving up six hits over eight innings, striking out four and walking zero.  It was Westbrook’s first win of the 2008 season.

Besides Hafner’s two RBI’s, Asdrubal Cabrera drove in two runs with a single in the 5th inning that scored David Dellucci and Casey Blake.

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It was a back and forth game against the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.  The Indians battled back in the top of the 9th inning to take a 4-2 lead before Torii Hunter hit a grandslam to give the Angels the lead.  Hunter had given the Angels the lead in the bottom of the 8th inning with a solo homerun as well.

You have to give the Indians credit for scoring three runs in the top of the 9th inning off of Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez.  Victor Martinez doubled Asdrubal Cabrera and then Jhonny Peralta doubled that scored David Dellucci.  Casey Blake then singled and scored Ryan Garko.

Those three runs were not enough however as Hunter hit a walk off granslam off of Joe Borowski who picked up the loss.  Bad time to blow a save for Borowski…

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