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April 16, 2008
Boston: 5, Cleveland 3
The box score of the Tribe pitching staff says it all.
Paul Byrd tosses six solid innings, nearly cutting his ERA in half, and the bullpen proceeds to allow four runs in three innings. Special shoutout to Jorge Julio who will look to actually retire a batter during his next appearance, with both batters which he faced crossing home plate.
After this one, what are all of your thoughts on the closing situation? Kobayashi was warming up, but never made it out. Betancourt was unavailable. Does Lewis have the make-up? If not for that Lugo grounder, he could still be out there trying to get out of the eighth inning.
Before the seventh inning, the Tribe had ten men left on base versus Boston’s five. The final tally was Boston: 18, Cleveland: 17. Boston had an amazing 13 baserunners in the final three innings. That’s just unacceptable on every level. We have a ton of work to do against the Tigers this week. Dropping 9-of-12 is not a streak we need at any point in this season.
Let’s hear it in the comments.
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Where was the fan intervention on that last hit? Boston fans are willing to throw themselves onto the field to keep their fouls from being caught; why couldn’t Tribe fans keep the ball out of play?
You know what…Boston is a better team right now. Period. Better hitters, and better pitching. I was amazed at the patience the Indians showed with Wakefield. They made him throw pitches, and they got him out of the game. Usually they flail away at that stupid pitch. But when they had the Sox against the ropes, Boston got out of it.
Here come the Tigers, on a winning streak and hitting the ball. Great.
Can anyone explain to me why Jorge Julio is wasting a roster spot? We’re paying Kobayashi a good amount of cash, to watch this clown pitch in front of him.
I a diehard fan can tell Jorge Julio is a piece of garbage. Before the season even started, “Julio has no control, Baltimore and Florida let him go”. We found gold in Howry off the scrap heap in Howry once. Shapiro learn finally that picking off said pile leads to exactly what we got, moron.
They signed Julio to a minor league contract. It’s not like the Indians are out a ton of money. It was worth the risk.
Kobayashi
He was a closer in Japan, right? Betancourt was given the opportunity last year and blew it. Kobayashi was brought here for Blowrowski’s fall. and though he fell on the DL rather than blowing up… its Kobayashi’s job to lose. Why mess with Betancourt.
Every good pen has that dominant 8th inning guy and Betancourt is ours. Why switch him to the closer and then back once Blowrowski comes back?
Its Kobayashi’s job until he fails.
My two cents. AND DAMN YOU BOSTON.
I think Shapiro was trying to stockpile as many pitchers with closing experience as possible (Julio, Kobayashi, etc.).
I concur with your Boston assessment
Obviously, I agree wholeheartedly with Jeremy. On ALL points.
I have a really bad feeling that the Tigers are going to pay us back for last year. Wow, from first to worst, just like that. I think Wedge has some splaining to do.
I agree with Tom. Julio is trash.
He has bounced around with a handful of teams the past 5 years and has little upside.
Lacks control (See 2 walks last night- did not retire a batter) and is not reliable.
Trash.
can someone explain to me how we pinch hit j-mike for dellucci??? i mean, i don’t have the numbers in front of me, but a sub .170 hitter for a .240 (?) hitter? and in the number 2 hole. at what point does wedge make a move in the left field platoon issue? i know we are all talking about pitching, and i think that ultimately lost the game last night, but i thinkwe just need to score more runs period. we were probably 2 crucial hits from leading this game about 4 or 5 to 1. would we win the game then? who knows, but at least it takes some pressure off of the guys struggling in the bullpen.