Indians Confidential

Good times continued on Saturday at Progressive Field, as the Indians wrapped up their fifth straight win with a gutsy 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees. They got another solid outing from a starting pitcher, this time it being just called up Jeremy Sowers. They earned the win with getting out of some tough jams by a bullpen that was led by Jensen Lewis and Masa Kobayashi, who earned his first win in the Majors.

Back to Sowers, who went 5.1 innings, allowing three runs on seven hits. He walked just one and struck out three. With the news coming out that Jake Westbrook will miss four weeks instead of just two, having Sowers on the Major League roster pitching well is an added bonus. The bullpen did its job, with Lewis and Kobayashi going a combined 3.2 innings, allowing no runs on five hits with five strikeouts.

The offense put up three runs in the second, as Grady Sizemore walked in a run, David Dellucci hit a sac fly, and Travis Hafner singled in another. Sowers did a great job of making that hold up until the Yankees tied the game with three runs of their own in the 6th. It stayed tied till the Indians pushed a run across in the ninth.

With one out, Sizemore singled, Dellucci singled, and then both advanced on a wild pitch. They walked Hafner, and then Victor Martinez singled to left the game-winning run. The win puts the Indians at .500 at 12-12 for the first time since they were 4-4. They also move within a game of the first place White Sox, who fell Saturday. Sunday it’s C.C. Sabathia vs Chien- Ming Wang at 1:05pm.