Cleveland Sports Forum

Napoli pinch-hit two run homer ties it in the 8th.

Lindor walks with 2 out in the 9th. Santana comes next.

No chance for Carlos, Lindor caught stealing.

Cody Allen in the 10th, his second inning. a walk, wild pitch and fly ball put a man on 3rd with 2 out.

Cano three-run homer unties it.

Brian Shaw relieves Cody.

I'm now going to give up and look up the name of that mystery pitcher who sits in our bullpen but never pitches.

You probably all knew it already, but Tito and I forgot about him. Ortiz was in the ballpark. He's named Dan Otero and he's actually pitched 3 times this season and has not allowed a run. Twice against the Mets while I was out of town so that's my excuse for not knowing his name.

I'm much better at naming the 1968 bullpen including surprises on the roster Billy Rohr, Tom Gramley and Bud Kurtz. [of course that might actually be 1967 or so, and perhaps not all on the opening day roster but I think so]

It feels like the team is just treading water. Someone throw them a life preserver!

We do stand a chance to producing a better start than the past 3 years though for April. A 4 game swing could be considered great, and if we manage to do better than .500, that could be a great swing.

Indians have given Kluber an EIGHT run lead in the 3rd inning!

Someone must have taught these guys how to swim! Or maybe they are following the Cavs lead?

..............WE WIN!!!

Gaylord - I think we may be seeing a different animal this year. The differences:

1. Lindor. OK, he came up last year and the team played better in the 2nd half. We've seen 2nd half surges before, fool's gold, but this time it may be different. The reason it's different? Lindor - he is legit.

2. The brass got smart and figured out they needed defense surrounding their prize starting pitchers. Napoli huge defensive upgrade at 1B, Santana stunk. Uribe huge upgrade at 3B, shit they had Chisenhall in there last year in the first half. Naquin - VERY nice defensive outfielder. Gomes back, and hopefully staying back. And last, Lindor! Just wow defensively.

3. Much more RH bats to counter opposing teams constantly throwing lefties.

All this - and no Brantley yet - their best player. And another defensive stud.

I watched the Detroit feed the last 2 games. Their announcers were saying that all the hype about the Tribe starters was just hype as Tribe was 6-7 and giving up
runs. So we 3 hit them and 2 hit them and they scored all of 2 runs against our staff. Lets see what they say tomorrow.

Anybody see any pigs flying around?

Ten runs for Kluber.