Indians news, features and notes
- Tigers 11, Indians 7: Ubaldo Jimenez gets rocked; Miguel Cabrera finishes it off with bouncing homer
- Indians: Matchups for upcoming games
- Tigers' win aided by Cabrera's freak home run
- Indians notebook: Nick Swisher expected back from paternity list Friday
- Marla Ridenour: Indians’ strong start might not end with usual fading finish
- Cleveland Indians report: Terry Francona expects emotional return to Boston
- Francona's emotions to be tested on return to Boston
- Tigers 5, Indians 1: Max Scherzer dominates after first inning, leads Tigers past Indians
- Cleveland Indians report: Top prospect Francisco Lindor remains on fast track to big leagues
- Cleveland Indians notebook: Chris Perez deactivates Twitter account after receiving offensive tweets
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5-26-09 Morning RoundUp
Could the Rays be cursed in Cleveland? The Indians come-from-behind 11-10 win marked the 14th consecutive time Tampa Bay has dropped a game at The Prog/Jacobs Field.
The midges were unleashed last night (Albeit not as bad as Joba Chamberlain got it). The Seagulls were in attack mode (The guy next to me throwing them food didn't help). The Rays choked up a 10-0 lead.
It sounds like a curse to me.
Or maybe just pitchers who can't throw strikes. The teams combined to walk 19 batters in the game. Indians starter Fausto Carmona walked five in his 1.1 innings. Throwing 61 pitches and allowing five earned runs in the process.
Tampa Bay starter David Price walked five and struck out six in 3.1 innings.
It was three consecutive walks in the bottom of the ninth that helped the Indians score seven runs in the inning to win the game.
MARK DEROSA TRADE RUMORS
The Brewers are not pursuing the Indians' Mark DeRosa, according to a major-league source. The Indians want major-league pitching for DeRosa, and the Brewers have little to spare, the source says.
AND SPEAKING OF DEROSA
Click the link to see the former fashion model, just don't let Mark know you were checking out his wife. (It's office safe. I wouldn't post it otherwise.)
POLITICS AND BASEBALL
President Barack Obama's choice of Sonia Sotomayer for the vacant Supreme Court seat could thrill baseball fans.
(You like how I followed objectifying DeRosa's wife with a woman of power? Got to cover all the bases, people.)
She ended a long baseball strike that year, briskly ruling against the owners in favor of the players.The owners were trying to subvert the labor system, she said, and the strike had “placed the entire concept of collective bargaining on trial.”
After play resumed, The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that by saving the season, Judge Sotomayor joined forever the ranks of Joe Dimaggio, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams. The Chicago Sun-Times said she “delivered a wicked fastball” to baseball owners and emerged as one of the most inspiring figures in the history of the sport.
