The Cleveland Indians got three runs in the eighth inning and held on to defeat the New York Yankees by the score of 5-3.

David Dellucci connected a three run home run off of Joba Chamberlain in the eighth inning to give the Indians the victory.  Talk about a huge pitch hit home run for Dellucci and especially off of Chamberlain who is usually lights out.

Delluci led the Indains with three RBI in the game.  Jhonny Peralta had the other two RBI for the Indians.  Peralta went deep for a two run shot in the fourth inning.

Rafael Perez picked up the win as he pitched in relief of Fausto Carmona.  Carmona tossed five innings and as he gave up six hits and three runs.  Rafael Betancourt earned his third save of the season for the Indians.

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Don’t let that 7-2 score fool you too much, the Cleveland Indians and the Seattle Mariners were tied heading into the ninth inning, but the Mariners came out and scored five runs in the inning to win the game 7-2.

Rafael Betancourt took the loss for the Indians.  Betancourt ended up giving up three of the five runs in the ninth inning.  He wasn’t the only player to suck it up out of the bullpen however as Craig Breslow gave up two runs.

Starting pitcher Fausto Carmona lasted 6.2 innings as he gave up eight hits and two runs.  Carmona did walk four batters however, so he does still need to work on his control.

David Dellucci and Travis Hafner both had one RBI each at the plate for the Indians.  Not very much offensive production for the Indians on Tuesday night.

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The Clevelend Indians swept the Kansas City Royals in a double header on Thursday.  The Indians beat the Royals by the scores of 9-6 in game one and then 2-0 in the game two.  With the two wins, the Indians are now 10-12 on the season as they try to get back to the .500 mark.

Fausto Carmona improved to 3-1 on the season as he picked up the win in the first game.  Cliff Lee improved to 4-0 on the season as he won the second game for the Indians.

In game one, Grady Sizemore connected for his second home run of the season and in game two, David Dellucci hit his third home run of the season.

The Indians will now start a series against the New York Yankees.

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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It ust wasn’t the Cleveland Indians night as the Detroit Tigers clobbered them 13-2.  Right from the get-go you could tell that the Indians were going to have problems with the Tigers.  The Indiand and Tigers now have identical records at 5-10 on the season.

C.C. Sabathia only lasted three inning and took the loss for the Indians as his record dropped to 0-3 on the season.  Sabathia only lasted four inning as he allowed nine earned runs and eight hits.  Tom Mastny pitched the next 1.1 innings and allowe two earned runs.   Jorge Julio and Masa Kobayashi both gave up one earned run each out of the bullpen as well.

David Dellucci did hit a homerun for the Cubs in the first inning and Ryan Garko recorded an RBI in the seventh inning for the Indians runs.  Just a bad performance for all Indians players against the Tigers.

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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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