Indians Confidential

It was yet another snoozer at the plate for the Indians on Sunday, as they wrapped up their three-game series in Minnesota with a 2-1 extra inning loss to the Twins.  The Indians offense scored a total of five runs in three games, and their offense today managed just a second inning run, and had a total of six hits.  Bottom line, while the starting pitching is doing the job, the offense has been awful.

The game-winning run in the 10th inning came when the Twins Justin Morneau singled home Brendan Harris, who had also homered earlier in the day, for the winning run.  Rafael Perez lost in the relief for the Indians, as he could not pick up Paul Byrd, who had his second straight solid start after starting the season with two poor outings.

Back to the offense - check out some of these batting averages: Grady Sizemore .260, Jason Michaels .125, Travis Hafner .229, Jhonny Peralta .227, Asdrubal Cabrera .193, Franklin Guiterrez .203, and Casey Blake .179.  In other words, this team had better start getting hot at the plate, or the starting pitching and as well as it’s been is not going to matter.

The team is now 7-12, 4.5 back of the White Sox in the Central.  They will get Monday off and then head to KC to start the first of three with the Royals on Tuesday.  C.C. Sabathia, who is off to a rough start of his own, goes for the Indians in game one of the series.