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July 22, 2012While We’re Waiting… NBA Uniform Patches, Summer League Ends and Joe Haden
July 23, 2012The Tribe’s miserable weekend continued on Sunday afternoon at Progressive Field as they dropped the third game of their four-game series against the Orioles. Zach Britton allowed just four hits in six shutout innings and it appeared the O’s would cruise to a 4-0 win. The offense was nowhere to be found for eight innings and it looked like they would be shutout for the third time since the start of the second half just over a week ago.
But Indians made plenty of noise in their last at-bat. Carlos Santana took a Luis Ayala offering just over the right field wall to end the shutout with a two-run homer. That forced Buck Showalter to make the call for MLB saves leader Jim Johnson, who promptly gave up a double to Shelley Duncan high off the left field wall. Duncan started watching it, trotting around first as it looked like he expected it to go out. After stumbling around first, he just got in under the tag at second and was knocked in on Travis Hafner single down the left field line. The rally would die, however, with pinch-runner Jack Hannahan on second.
The Tribe will try to stave off a sweep on Monday afternoon.
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Week till Browns camp…
Good thing we got the Tiggers next…uh ohhhhh!
Slip slidin’ away…
After tomorrow’s BAL finale, a 15 game stretch of division games begins. (DET, MIN, KC, DET MIN). Make or break time. Anything less than 4 of 6 from DET and 10 of 15 overall just won’t get it done…
This would be a great time for the longest winning streak of the season.
Minor league baseball at its finest.
so, Santana starts hitting (OPS up 50pts since allstar break) and other guys forget how to hit?
really wish this team could put it all together, but without a solid rotation and streaky hitting, this just doesn’t look good.
Alot of “ifs” and “wishes” these days in Tribe town I guess we’re not back in May anymore. Goes back to what I said then this team doesn’t possess enough talent to be able to overcome rough patches by the few key players on the roster. The FO continues to let this team down as far as I’m concerned.