Game #37, Twins @ Tribe 5/16

[dmcdougal]

Pitching Matchups

For Cleveland, the big Left-Hander
C.C. Sabathia
5-1, 4.02 ERA, 58 K, 10 BB, 1.29 WHIP

Career vs. Minnesota
7-7, 3.73 ERA, 108 K, 55 BB, 1.34 WHIP

Last Three Starts
19.2 IP, 12 ER, 5.49 ERA, 23 K, 2 BB, 1.22 WHIP

For Minnesota, the definition of mediocrity
Carlos "not gold but" Silva---my own little Bermanism
2-3, 3.00 ERA, 20 K, 10 BB, 1.38 WHIP

Career vs. Cleveland
4-3, 4.91 ERA, 26 K, 14 BB, 1.53 WHIP

Last Three Starts
19 IP, 7 ER, 3.32 ERA, 5 K, 4 BB, 1.32 WHIP


Starting Lineups
Cleveland
1. Grady Sizemore CF
2. Casey Blake 3B
3. Travis Hafner DH
4. Victor Martinez C
5. Trot Nixon RF
6. Jhonny Peralta SS
7. David Dellucci LF
8. Ryan Garko 1B
9. Josh Barfield 2B

Minnesota
1. Luis Castillo 2B
2. Jason Bartlett SS
3. Michael Cuddyer RF
4. Justin Morneau 1B
5. Torri Hunter CF
6. Jeff Cirillo DH
7. Lew Ford LF
8. Chris Heintz C
9. Nick Punto 3B

Weather Report
Currently 59 Degrees in Cleveland at Noon.
55 Degrees at gametime with a 10% chance of precipitation and a 10-15 MPH wind heading SE (not sure where that relates to the ballpark) Anyway, it will be partly cloudy and not the greatest of ballgame weather.

Doug's Keys to the Game
---The key to tonight's game will be CC Sabathia coming off of a few lackluster starts. He got roughed up by Oakland again last outing and I think it's really important that he bounce back strong. Hopefully he can give us 7 and 3 or less earned runs.
---Victor Martinez is 11/25 against Carlos Not Gold but Silva with 3 HR and 11 RBI.
---Grady Sizemore is 17-33 against Carlos Not Gold but Silva with 2 HR and 5 RBI
---CC Sabathia is third in the league in K/BB ratio at 5.80. He is behind Ted Lilly at 6 and.....PAUL BYRD!!!! AT 7.87

Should be an exciting game, let's jump out early and take the series.

Indians vs. Silva
Grady Sizemore 17/33 (.515), 2 HR, 3 2B, 2 3B, 5 RBI
Travis Hafner 12-26 (.462) 0 HR, 4 2B, 5 RBI
Victor Martinez 11-25 (.440) 3 HR, 11 RBI
Jhonny Peralta 6-22 (.273) 0 HR, 1 RBI
Trot Nixon 3-9 (.333) 1 HR, 1 RBI
Platoon situation Dellucci 2-9, Michaels 2-10

[intenso]

Indians vs. Silva
Grady Sizemore 17/33 (.515), 2 HR, 3 2B, 2 3B, 5 RBI
Victor Martinez 11-25 (.440) 3 HR, 11 RBI

the rest of my AL only league weeps.

[dmcdougal]

Tripod, I don't know if you'll be checkin the thread or not but I'm gonna need you to make the game threads tomorrow and Friday. I'm moving home tomorrow at about 1 and it's a pretty long drive so I won't be able to make the previews. Friday ill be getting situated so that won't work either. Besides, yours are better than mine (I'm still trying to figure out the pictures of the starting pitchers)

[dmcdougal]

by the way, what do you fellas think of my Bermanism

[consigliere]

Indians vs. Silva
Grady Sizemore 17/33 (.515), 2 HR, 3 2B, 2 3B, 5 RBI
Travis Hafner 12-26 (.462) 0 HR, 4 2B, 5 RBI
Victor Martinez 11-25 (.440) 3 HR, 11 RBI
Jhonny Peralta 6-22 (.273) 0 HR, 1 RBI
Trot Nixon 3-9 (.333) 1 HR, 1 RBI
Platoon situation Dellucci 2-9, Michaels 2-10

Good stuff, and thanks for providing.

Good Lord, Grady, Hafner and V-Mart absolutely OWN Silva.

[pup]

Good Lord, Grady, Hafner and V-Mart absolutely OWN Silva.

As does Casey Blake, 12-31 .387 3 HR.

[dmcdougal]

good point, Pup. I knew I was leaving out someone

[pup]

What you would expect to be the top five in Eric Wedge's batting order on Wednesday (Sizemore, Blake, Hafner, Martinez and Nixon) have a combined career average of .443 against Silva, in 124 at bats.

[dmcdougal]

Another game note. The Twins placed their young, solid reliever Jesse Crain on the DL today.

[pup]

The Twins placed their young, solid reliever Jesse Crain on the DL today

Inflamation of the ERA after the Tribe lit him up last night?

[Hoover]

The Twins placed their young, solid reliever Jesse Crain on the DL today

Inflamation of the ERA after the Tribe lit him up last night?

He got whiplash from watching all the hits.

[furls]

what is the outlook for this game? Is the rain going to break? I dont have the blessing of local weather forecasts.

[consigliere]

Game will be played. First pitch about 5 minutes away.

[consigliere]

Man, I'm starting to really warm up to Blake in the 2-hole.

Nice start, 2-0....now hopefully Sabathia doesn't have one of his one inning meltdowns. Gotta win this one to ensure the series going into Santana's start tomorrow.

[swerb]

Up 2-0 in the 1st, against a division rival, ace on the hill, coming off a tough week, chance to win the series before Santana hurls tomorrow ....

CC's gotta finish this one off.

[dmcdougal]

I am starting to notice this whole "Sizemore owning Carlos not gold but Silva" thing

come on that is the hottest bermanism since "Mike Pepperoni Piazza"

[dmcdougal]

HUUUUUUGE strikeout by CC

[tribetalk]

Tribe playing more solid ball. Just getting enough run support to carry CC by.
Go Tribe!

[consigliere]

Big hit by Trot there. CC has to nail this one down.

Man, the Indians are three blown late leads on that West Coast trip from really being on a role. Could have very well gone 7-3 or 6-4 on that trip and won every series......oh well. Starting to look like The Jake homefield cooking is back. Would be nice to see.

[Wahoot]

Bases loaded, nobody out, Nixon to face LHP Reyes.

Would like to see J. Michaels here.

[Charboneau]

We need to nail this one down. Overall a pretty solid effort. That 10 game wrap around road trip was just brutal. Like I said Sunday - I would have been thrilled with 5-5. At the end of the day - if we can hang on - we're back to 9 games over .500 with 5 games left on this home stand. Not too bad.

[Wahoot]

Travis Hafner is. Not. Fast.

[consigliere]

WHat was Hafner doing there?

[Wahoot]

WHat was Hafner doing there?

If I had to guess, he assumed the throw was going home. Thing is, there's these guys on the field called "cut-off" men.

[MadThinker88]

Does anyone else recall how the Tribe did after the JoeB meltdown in NY against the Yanks.

I believe Wedge and the boys won 11 of 13 before starting the last road trip.

IF the Tribe could do that after every JoeB meltdown, I'd have Joe meltdown in a game once every 3 weeks.

[He Gone]

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[consigliere]

Big win, and nice performance by CC. Now, let's go for the sweep tomorrow. Can't wait. I'm actually going to the game too.

[leadpipe]

I am starting to notice this whole "Sizemore owning Carlos not gold but Silva" thing

come on that is the hottest bermanism since "Mike Pepperoni Piazza"

I know you called Borowski bashers morons yesterday, but Chris Berman, now there is a moron. And an arogant, unfunny one at that. I used to like the Berman nicknames, then I went to Junior High.

[dmcdougal]

great game by Cleveland to take the series with Santana throwing tomorrow. Also worth noting, CC stayed right around his average K:BB ratio with 5:1. Also lowered his ERA to 3.65

Casey and Trot had great games but I'm gonna give the Player of the Game award to Grady Sizemore. 2-4, BB, 3 R, 2 SB

Another nice note; 0 errors for the Tribe

[Wahoot]

I'm glad CC drilled Morneau today. Should make it more difficult for Santana to pull that sh#t tomorrow.

[CLEfan86]

WHat was Hafner doing there?

If I remember the play correctly, the bases were loaded and it was a sac fly to right. While watching it on TV I thought Ford might have a play at the plate. I think we must have some sort of set up were Hafner is supposed to get in that run down to insure the scoring of the run.