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10 In a Row

August 28th, 2008 · View Comments

The Indians extended their win streak to 10 last night, extending their pwnership of Justin Verlander in a 9-7 victory.  Kelly Shoppach and Shin Soo Choo each hit a two-run homer and Fausto Carmona pitched just well enough to win.  The Indians tacked on two bonus runs in the 9th, which proved to be needed when Jensen Lewis gave two back in his first real shaky appearance since becoming closer.

Don’t look now, but Andy Marte has a 5-game hitting streak, going 2 for 4 to pull his average up to .203, stepping above the Mendoza line for the first time since April 13.  For August, Marte’s line is .246 / .290 / .354 .

The 10-game win streak is excellent, but more importantly the Indians won the last 6 games of it on the road. Also importantly, the Indians won several close games – the kind of games they’d been losing early on. While the bullpen is not by any means stable, the performance of Jensen Lewis as closer appears to have settled the bullpen somewhat, at least until game circumstances require Kobayashi, Rincon or Mujica to pitch.

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  • dave . . .

    thanx to eric “the genius” wedge, the 10-game win streak is now history. why on earth did he put victor at first base and david de-douche-bag at dh, thereby putting 2 of their hottest hitters of late, ryan garko & the ben francisco treat, on the bench??? ben & garko were instrumental in the tribe’s success throughout their 10-game win streak and so with all the momentum going for them in the world, he decides to just upset the apple cart now??? why??? victor sitting out the next game and then dh-ing in the 3rd game just proves that he wasn’t ready to come back just yet and as such, they should have just waited until rosters could have been expanded anyway on september 1st. last time i checked, victor only played in a grand total of 8 minor league games on his rehab assignment and hit all of 1 home run. call me crazy but aren’t those rehab assignments supposed to be 20 games??? look, i would much prefer to have vic the stick back in the lineup just as much as anyone, but as long as we are getting the true vic the stick circa 2004-2007 and not the shell of his former self that we saw in the first half of this season. all i know is that the streak is over and the indians are now 0-3 since victor’s return against the worst team in the american league and have yet to score more than 4 runs in any of their last 3 games after having not scored less than 4 runs in any of the prior 10 games. do you think it would have hurt for them to just keep victor out of the lineup until such time that the streak was actually stopped??? the least they could have done was let him play dh & kept garko’s bat in the lineup instead of de-douche-bag. what a revolting development that was.

  • http://www.pronkneedsyou.com woodsmeister

    All streaks must end. Felix Hernandez is a right-hander with wicked, wicked stuff. I don’t blame Wedge at all for getting Martinez (a switch-hitter) and Delucci (batting left-handed) into the lineup against Hernandez instead of Francisco and Garko (both right-handed). He’s been doing the same thing all year, and, in fact, nearly every major league manager would do exactly the same thing.

    Rehab assignments are supposed to last until the player is ready for major league service. If they thought Victor was ready to play in Cleveland, it would be counterproductive to keep him in the minors, especially with Akron going to the playoffs.

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