Indians Confidential

You really expect me to talk about this game?!

Where do we start? Well, there was the good start that saw the Indians go up 3-0 early. That was followed by the Blue Jays coming back, taking a 4-3 lead in the 5th, then the Heavens opened. Bad. We waited. And we waited, and waited, and waited.

Finally, 27 minutes after 9 pm the groundscrew had done enough to make the field playable again for baseball. They might as well not even had bothered.

The Jays added another single run in the 6th (Scott Lewis, who did not take the loss, was long gone), then they scored two in the 7th, and a six-spot in the 8th put it to bed. Not that the Indians offense didn’t make it somewhat interesting.

They were able to put a single run over in the 6th (Shin-Soo Choo a solo homer), and three more in the 7th (Victor Martinez two-run homer helped out). Put that was about it.

Bottom line, five pitchers allowed 13 Toronto runs on 17 hits. Ugly. The offense should be able to win on a night when they score 7 runs, but at least in the first four games of 2009 – it was not meant to be.

Don’t fret, we get to do it all over again in about 13 hours. Joy.