Watch out for Tena. before this game is over.

Can't win if you can't score.

The offense is our achilles heal right now. No pop!

Especially with Ramirez tanking.

I'd like to give Jonathan Rodriquez a shot right now to try and pick up some of the slack.

Gotta find a way to score some runs. It's my guess the we should start averaging around 4 runs a game down the stretch.

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another exciting game Sunday, for 8 innings at least. then 2 errors and a rough outing by Morgan

Worst game of the year !

Giolito with perhaps the worst debut in baseball history. Last I looked he was up to 9 runs in 3 innings. Why waste the bullpen? Keep him out there another few innings and then release him. We have 5 staters who can pitch, don't need 6 of them. And if we do we can bring back Gaddis whose ERA was only about 6. not 27

Not that it's relevant today, but do remember a game maybe in the 80s when they came back from a ten run deficit and unless I'm mixing two stories into one which is quite possible they won it on a homer by Jamie quirk in the bottom of the 9th in his first at bat for Cleveland.

Nope here's the Quirk game:

The score was tied at 3-3 heading to the ninth. Ernie Camacho came in to pitch. Quirk replaced Willard at catcher. Camacho retired the side around two walks. In the bottom of the frame, Davis looked to have found his old self, striking out George Vukovich and Tabler to begin the inning. Up stepped Quirk, who hit a 1-and-1 fastball into the stands just inside the right-field foul pole. “He threw me a curve before that,” said Quirk. “But I am not going to swing at a curve with less than two strikes.”4 It was his only game, and his only at-bat, as a Cleveland Indian.

Here's the 11 run rally:

Behind by 10 Runs, the Indians Rally to Stun the Rays

By The Associated Press

May 26, 2009

Victor Martinez lined a two-out, two-run single to center field to complete a seven-run ninth inning as the host Cleveland Indians rallied to beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 11-10, on Monday night.

The Indians, who trailed by 10 going in the fourth, became the first team to make up a 10-run deficit since 2004.
Martinez’s hit in the ninth, off Jason Isringhausen (0-1), ended an 0-for-18 streak and ruined the much-awaited season debut of Tampa Bay starter David Price. Price ran up his pitch count and lasted only three and a third innings.

The teams combined to use 11 pitchers, who issued a total of 19 walks — 10 by the Rays.

Ryan Garko hit a two-run homer off Price in the fourth to start Cleveland’s comeback. He added a three-run shot in the ninth off Grant Balfour for his second career multihomer game.
Isringhausen walked the first three men he faced, forcing in one run to make it 10-9. Martinez then lined a 3-2 pitch to center and was mobbed by teammates. The Indians still have the worst record in the American League at 18-28.

The hero of tonight's 20-6 loss is: David Freaking Fry with 4 innings pitched. I hear he was ready to go out and pitch the 10th.

20-6

Missed extra points.

Longest outing by a Cleveland position player in something like 90 years. By any position player since Jose Oquendo in 1988.

Personally I thought it was terrible. Couple innings maybe. Four just a joke and Francona should be called out about it.

The solution is to add a "mercy" rule.

Players won't go for that because they love to pad their stats against BP pitching.

I was surprised Fry went 4 innings; I expected Gallagher would pitch the 8th and 9th. But I did not find it offensive.

Next year