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Jake Westbrook walked a tightrope for 5 innings, Jensen Lewis shut the Motor City Kitties down for the 3 more to secure his first major league win, and the Indians beat the Tigers 7-4 behind 4 home runs by 4 different players off Tigers ace Justin Verlander. The homers: Inning 2 – Ryan Garko (solo) [...]

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If the Indians do indeed go on to win the AL Central, their performance this year against the Twins, a team that has given them problems in recent years, will be one of the key reasons why. Yesterday’s 6-2 win left the Indians 14-4 in the season series versus the Twinkies, including 5 victories against [...]

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Since we left our intrepid Wahoo Warriors for the Labor Day weekend, the following has happened: 8/31 – Tribe 8 – White Sox 5The Tribe bailed out Fausto Carmona, who had a bad outing, by scoring 6 runs in the 8th. Kenny Lofton tied it with a two-out bases loaded walk, and then Casey Blake [...]

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“Age and Treachery will overcome Youth and Skill” — popular T-shirt The Indians’ version of Age and Treachery, Paul Byrd, bamboozled the Minnesota Twins on 4 hits to pitch a complete game shutout, using only 99 pitches to go the distance. The Twinkies were completely off-balance all night, grounding out weakly and popping out. The [...]

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Last night’s game was ugly. 14 to 9 Boston ugly. Cliff Lee was awful, even by recent Cliff Lee standards. And compounding the awfulness, as the boos rained down upon him from an extremely upset home crowd, Lee tipped his cap as he entered the dugout. Bad move, Cliffie. Not the kind of move that [...]

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The Tribe got outlucked by the Red Sox last night, 1-0, wasting a fine pitching effort from CC Sabathia. The Red Sox lone run was scored on two bloop hits, and Matsuzaka had the Tribe helping him out by swinging at bad pitches all game. The Indians appear to be pressing at the plate in [...]

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Ryan Garko is getting used to a post-game helping of Leadership Pie . Garko’s 2-run homer in the 9th off Bobby Jenks sent the game into bonus baseball, and his bloop single to centerfield scored Jason Michaels with the winning run as the Tribe came back yet again, this time against the White Sox, 6-5. [...]

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After spotting the White Sox an 11-2 lead, the Tribe made it close before losing 11-10. Cliff Lee pitched poorly, but the Indians were in the game 5-2 when he left with 1 out in the sixth. Unfortunately, Fernando Cabrera came in and pitched batting practice, letting in 2 more charged to Lee and giving [...]

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The Tribe escaped a weekend series with the KC Royals, taking 2 out of 3 at home. Friday: Cleveland 5, KC 4 After the Tribe tried to give this one to the Royals after JoeBo, staked to a 1-run lead going in to the 9th, gave up the tying run, the Royals gave it right [...]

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Word from those in the know indicates that Pronk will sign a 4-year, $57 million dollar extension tomorrow. This contract will keep him in Cleveland through 2012. According to Paul Hoynes, $9 million of that money will be to pick up his option for next year and sweeten his deal for the remainder of this [...]

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