Scoreless duel broken up in the 6th on Lindor's triple. Santana brings him in. 3-0 bottom of 6 for Anderson.
He is great or awful, little in-between.

Cody goes seven. Brian with the 8th. Cody back for the 9th. Tribe blanks Verlander and the Tigers 4-0. 3 hits for Michael Martinez, auditioning to be a cheap substitute for Aviles in 2016

It's really pretty encouraging.

The efforts we see from Tomlin and Anderson!!

Add to the other young starters and wow! Also young and cheap.

Can now focus on fixing the offense. But in the meantime very competitive.

Adam Plutko and Mike Clevinger have finished up strongly with Akron. A pair of ERA's under 3. Neither projects to be a top of the rotation starter but provide serious back of the rotation protection.

Raburn, Bauer lead Indians over White Sox 3-2
By JOHN JACKSON (Associated Press)
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Cleveland Indians' Ryan Raburn hits a home run against the Chicago White Sox during the sixth inning …

CHICAGO (AP) -- Ryan Raburn hit a pair of solo home runs and Trevor Bauer pitched two-hit ball for seven innings as the Cleveland Indians beat the White Sox 3-2 Monday, ending Chicago's four-game winning streak.
Pitching Details

Raburn has eight multihomer games in his career, four of them against the White Sox. He connected both times against Chris Sale (12-8) and is 10 for 33 with four home runs lifetime versus the lefty ace.

Sale (12-8) struck out eight in seven innings. He has fanned 247 this year, nearing the single-season team record of 269 set by Ed Walsh in 1908.

Bauer (11-11) shrugged off a lack of command early to allow two runs on two hits in seven innings. He walked five and struck out six.

Cody Allen pitched the ninth for his 29th save, completing the combined three-hitter.

The White Sox took a 2-0 lead in the second before getting a hit. Bauer started the inning by walking Avisail Garcia, J.B. Shuck and Mike Olt on 12 pitches.

Carlos Sanchez drove in the first run by hitting with a groundout and Tyler Fowlers had a sacrifice fly.

The Indians tied it in the fourth on solo home runs by Mike Aviles and Raburn.

In the sixth inning, Raburn gave Cleveland a 3-2 lead when he hit another solo homer, a 425-foot drive over the left-field bullpen and into the bleachers.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Indians: RHP Carlos Carrasco (shoulder inflammation) will be activated from the disabled list on Tuesday and is scheduled to start the second game of the series.

White Sox: DH/1B Adam LaRoche missed the game with patella tendinitis in his right knee.

UP NEXT

The series resumes Tuesday night with Indians RHP Carlos Carrasco (12-9, 3.53 ERA) facing rookie LHP Carlos Rodon (6-6, 4.10). This will be Rodon's 21st start of the season. He is 2-2 with a 1.85 ERA in his last five starts.

Link to box score:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=350907104

Quite a turn around by Bauer who couldn't find plate in the second but was nearly perfect for his final 5 innings.

But TX keeps winning, and we are still 5 games back in the WC.

and Carrasco didn't have it yesterday.

We'll miss the playoffs but look reasonably good doing so.

Another solid outing by Tomlin.

I'm beginning to think Mickey Callaway is a witch.

I'd call it a typical biazarro performance by Tomlin: 5 hits allowed, 3 of them homers. If you look at just the homer totals you'd say he's a disaster. 10 homers in 41 innings! That's awful; projects to record-breaking level of 50 in a full season.

But only 27 hits and 3 walks in those 41 innings is outstanding league-leading rate.

If the other team ever manages to get a man or two on base when the inevitable homers start flying he'll be in big trouble.
But maybe Josh has designed a whole new manner of successful pitching.

Remember Ferguson Jenkins? Catfish Hunter? It's what they did!

Jenkins has to be one of the most underrated pitchers ever. Although a Hall of Famer, haha.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/playe ... fe01.shtml

By my count he led the league SEVEN times in homers allowed. Crazy.

Then again, wow, the complete games, innings pitched, etc. Great pitcher.

If the other team ever manages to get a man or two on base when the inevitable homers start flying he'll be in big trouble.

Civ - I think that's the point.

If there are no runners on, they don't want to walk the batter. Make him earn it. If you look at Jenkins and Hunter, they walked no one.

If there are runners on, the pattern changes.

This Indians season is so Indians. Start off awful so you kill any fan interest by the third inning of the opener. Play a very boring brand of baseball. Dont promote your star prospect because you are cheap so you waste a couple of games for no reason. Throw out a little panic that the team is going to move. Dump your overrated vets who play the game the right way and are gritty. Play better because you are playing players who can actually play. Finally bring up your exciting rookie and win some games. Never quite play well enough to get into the race and end the season with false hope for next year.

It could be worse. You could be the Browns. What an awful franchise that one is. Why havent they fired their moron offensive line coach yet who loaded tried to strangle his girl friend. They did get rid of the recievers coach who like an imbecile got the mensa Gordon loaded so he could fail his mandatory drug test. They have a QB who besides being short with a noodle arm likes to play in a pool loaded on a big duck and was recruited by an idiot QB coach who he told he was going to wreck this league. 3/4 of the first round draft picks from the last 2 year are not starting they continue to dump draft picks because either they cant play they are too drunk to play or are too dumb to play. They have an owner who makes Dolan look good. They have a GM who is on suspension himself for being an imbecile. However, according to the fans of the team it is all Tony Grossi's fault.