Pronk Needs You!

When we last left the Tribe, they had just swept the Twinkies, and were about to start a three-game set with the Motor City Kitties.  Since then, we’ve seen the following:

The Indians swept a dispirited Motor City Kitties team.
More bad blood between the MCK and the Tribe.  In Game 2 of the series, Fausto Carmona [...]

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The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the Columbus Clippers have signed a four-year agreement with the Cleveland Indians to serve as their AAA franchise.
Buffalo, it appears, will be the new AAA home of the Mets, not the Blue Jays as many have speculated.

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After mailing it in over the weekend against the Royals, the Indians showed some interest in baseball again to start the week, sweeping the contending Twinkies.
Series summary:

Scott Lewis is good.  Or major league batters have not seen enough of the soft-tossing lefty to figure him out.  Or a combination of both.  He pitched the Indians [...]

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Indians - Terrible.  Lost 3 out of 4 to the Royals.  Quick recap of the horror show:

Sunday - Sowers leaves early and the bullpen gets bombed.  For completely unfathomable reasons, Eddie Moo was the first guy out of the bullpen.  Four runs later, inexplicably, the next guy out is Juan Rincon.  Betancourt would later get [...]

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Pronk made his return from three months on the disabled list a victorious one, and Jeremy Sowers pitched his best game of the year as the Indians beat the Orioles 6-1 last night.
Pronk singled in his first two at-bats and drew an intentional walk, finishing 2 for 4 with a strikeout and a walk.
Sowers went [...]

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Saturday afternoon - My wife is a graduate of Adrian College, in Adrian, Michigan and they were in town to play football at Capital University.  As an Otterbein graduate, I don’t need much coercion to go somewhere and root against Capital, so we went to the game and watched Adrian look unorganized and uncreative on [...]

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One of the great clichés in all of sports is that sometimes the best trades are the ones you don’t make.  Cliff Lee, whom many Tribe fans would have traded in the off-season for a Charlie Spikes baseball card, a bag of balls and a couple good fungo bats, won his twentieth game last night  [...]

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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 [...]

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Beat Michigan Week is off to a rousing start as the Tribe has taken two from the Motor City Kitties to extend the win streak to 9 and edge themselves into third place in the AL Central by 0.5 game. 
Franklin Gutierrez was the man of the moment on Monday, cranking a shot out of the [...]

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While everyone else was distracted by the exploits of Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt (whose name sounds like a Dickens villain, doesn’t it?) and the underage Chinese gymnasts, the Indians have been quietly salvaging something from this lost season.
The AL Central standings on August 8, Opening Day of the Olympics:

CENTRAL
W
L
PCT
GB
HOME
ROAD
RS
RA
DIFF
STRK
L10

Chicago Sox
64
50
.561
-
38-17
26-33
573
505
+68
Won 1
5-5

Minnesota
64
51
.557
.5
39-21
25-30
571
537
+34
Won 2
6-4

Detroit
56
59
.487
8.5
29-23
27-36
579
564
+15
Lost 1
3-7

Kansas City
53
63
.457
12
27-33
26-30
488
565
-77
Lost 3
6-4

Cleveland
50
64
.439
14
29-26
21-38
532
531
+1
Won [...]

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