Thursday, May 9, 2013

The red-hot Cleveland Indians took the third game of the 4 game series from the Oakland A's last night, winning 4-3. Justin Masterson improved to 5-2 on the season with 7 strike-outs. He has been using his splitter quite a bit lately and the results have been positive to say the least. The Tribe was up 4-3 in the ninth when A's short stop Adam Rosales took a Chris Perez pitch to deep left. The ball appeared to hit the wall and the play was declared a ground rule double. Video replay showed that it possibly hit a railing BEHIND the wall (making it a home run) but apparently there was not enough evidence to overturn the call. The would -be home run that would have tied the game stood as the call on the field, a double. A's Manager Bob Melvin came out to dispute the call and was ejected. I love the Indians, and I watched that ball about 10 times, it looked at regular speed to hit the top of the wall. In slow motion and on a couple of zoomed shots, it does appear it cleared the wall and hit something in the stands. Bad call or not, the Indians won the game. Chris Perez got his 5th save of the year. Brantley went 2-4 with a run and 2 RBI's. Nick Swisher went 1-4 with a home run and 1 RBI. Carlos Santana went 1-2 with a home run and an RBI. Cleveland looks to finish the 4-game  sweep today at 12:05. Starting for the Tribe is Scott Kazmir (1-1 6.28 ERA) and former Indians righty Bartolo Colon (3-1 3.62 ERA) will toe the rubber for the Athletics.Colon's last performance was a 5 inning effort vs the Yankees on May 4th. He gave up 3 runs on 6 hits and 3 strike outs. The yankees won the game 4-2.   Kazmir's last appearance was on 5/4 against the Twins, he gave up 2 runs on 5 hits, walking 1 and striking out 7. The Tribe won 7-3.  The Indians are 17-14 on the year, 3rd in the AL Central 1.5 games out of first. The A's are 18-17 and in 2nd in the AL West, 2.5 games in back of the Texas Rangers.

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