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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The Cleveland Indians played the Boston Red Sox neck and neck for eight innings, but in the ninth inning, Jensen Lewis gave up a solo home run to Jason Varitek and then a RBI single to Kevin Youkilis as the Red Sox defeated the Indians by the score of 5-3.

Lewis took the loss for the Indians as he gave up the two runs in the ninth inning.  Paul Byrd was the starter for the Indians and pitched six innings and only allowed one run which was un-earned.  Jorge Julio gave up two earned runs without even recording an out.

Victor Martinez led the Indians with two RBI while Ryan Garko helped out with one RBI.  The Indians just werne’t able to get much offense going off Tim Wakefield and the Red Sox relievers.

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The Cleveland Indians couldn’t battle their way back after falling behind 5-0 after five inning against the Oakland Athletics on Friday night.  The Indians were shut down by A’s pitcher Justin Duchscherer until he had to leave the game with a bicep injury.

The Indians did make it interesting in the late innings with homeruns by Ryan Garko and Travis Hafner but it still wasn’t enough as the Indians lost 6-3.

Paul Byrd was the losing pitcher after giving up three earned runs in only 4.1 innings of play.  He clearly didn’t have his stuff working for him on Friday night.  Jorge Julio came in after Byrd, and also gave up one earned run.

The Indians are now 2-2 on the season, and will try to get about .500 with a victory over the Athletics on Saturday.

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