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The Indians have their final home series of the season and being just two games below .500, that’s definitely a goal worth shooting for in what was a disappointment.  The Indians went from favorites to last place to being one of the better teams in baseball in the second half in a truly bizarre season.  [...]

The Indians are struggling to win in interleauge. They have watched the Tigers and Twins pull away as they slip further and further back. The Indians have been unable to win, despite playing well enough to keep themselves in the game. For example in the game Sunday, the Tribe racked up eleven hits in a [...]

While in this long portion of interleague play, the Indians have slid down the AL Central ladder. The Indians have posted a 4-7 record thus far during this round of interleague. While the Indians have struggled to win, they were in most of the games. One at bat could have changed the outcome of at [...]

The Indians were in two out of the three games, but the Rockies persistent offensive attack proved too much for the battered Indians lineup. The Indians were unable to hold the Rockies under four runs in any game of the series and that is a hard way to win a game. The Indians will continue [...]

Josh Barfield underwent surgery on his left middle finger yesterday. Barfield is expected to miss six to eight weeks of the season. Barfield is only one of the problems that got worse for the Indians. Fausto Carmona pitched three innings in class A and complained about hip pain afterward. Camona will be examined Wednesday by [...]

The Indians finished up a three game series against San Diego with a 7-3 win over the Padres.  The Indians managed to hold off the streaking Tigers, for the third spot in the division, even with their battered lineup. The Indians have been winning with their offense, they are averaging over six runs a game [...]

Victor Martinez was placed on the 15-day DL on Thursday following his MRI. Martinez will have arthroscopic surgery performed on his throwing arm today to remove loose objects from the arm. Martinez is not alone on the DL, he joins Travis Hafner, Josh Barfield (who was just called up Monday), Jake Westbrook and Fausto Carmona. [...]

The Indians made a change in the lineup that involves bringing a little more consistency to the plate. The Tribe made a call to Buffalo to bring up Josh Barfield from triple-A. The move appears to be a good one on paper, with Asdrubal Cabrera batting just .184 so far this season. Defensively Cabrera has [...]

The Indians had won two straight games going into last night and have a chance to win the series against Minnesota in game three tonight. Game one was a great game for the Tribe, with plenty of offense and a stunning pitching performance from C.C. Sabathia. Game two proved to be another story. The [...]

Jeremy Sowers made the start for the Indians in place of the injured Jake Westbrook and gave up five earned in four innings of work. Five was all Detroit needed as Armando Galarraga gave up two runs in his five and two-third innings. Galarraga  was a rookie this year and not even in the rotation, [...]

Jake Westbrook is going to have surgery performed on his right elbow. The surgery will leave Westbrook on the sideline for the remainder of the season. Westbrook is going to have the surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament. The surgery will take place within the next week or two and will be performed [...]

The Indians lost the final game of the series against Texas on Thursday night. Like all the other games in the series, it was a battle of offenses. The Indians fired out of the gate, scoring four runs in the first inning against Kevin Milwood. After that first inning, Millwood and his supporting staff were [...]

For only the fifth time in the season, the Indians but up more then ten runs in a game. This came on Monday night against the Rangers when the Indians posted an impressive 13 runs on 16 hits. The big time player in the game was Casey Blake who homered twice to bring in four [...]

As has been the case in many of the Indians losses this year, the offense was unable to produce runs. The Indians scored just one run on six hits. The pitching was less than stellar, but held the Royals to five runs. That is a number that the Indian’s offense should be able to put [...]

Cliff Lee improved to 8-1 on the season with a 5-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The Indians were able to manufacture five runs on eight hits, while the Royals put up an impressive thirteen hits against the Indians. The pitching for the Indians continues to be solid and this is a series that [...]

Jake Westbrook made his first start since being placed on the DL on April 22nd of 2008. Westbrook worked for six innings, giving up three earned before handing the ball over to Rafael Betancourt, who acquired a two run cushion. Betancourt surrendered three runs in the seventh that proved to be enough to hold off [...]

Fausto Carmona is expected to be out of the rotation for four weeks. An MRI exam of Carmona’s left hip shows a moderate strain of an exterior muscle. There is good news, however, there is no interior damage which makes the injury much less severe. With Carmona out the Indians will likely place the right [...]

The Indians lost another game Thursday, bringing the streak to a disheartening six straight games. The loss makes it two consecutive series in which the Tribe has been swept. The Indians again received a quality start from Aaron Laffey and were unable to produce the runs needed to win. The Indians manufactured one run on [...]

The Indians have dropped five straight games, but there is no need to panic. Though the Indians have lost five straight, there are a few positives to look at. The Pitching staff has not been dominant, but besides the game tonight, they have kept the opponents within striking range of a pretty potent offense. The [...]

With a solid pitching performance from Aaron Laffey the Cleveland Indians extend their winning streak to six straight games. The Indians have yet to drop a series in the month of May and have lost only two games thus far. The effort that is coming out of the starting line-up must be obtained as the [...]

The Indians have won five straight games, or seven out of their last eight. This swing of success can be attributed to the starting pitching staff. The starters for Cleveland have been lights out, with each starter achieving a quality start in the last five games. If these pitchers continue to roll like this, there [...]

I said it Wednesday, Travis Hafner is not playing up to the standards of what he is being paid. It was almost like he read my post and took a little offense on Thursday in the game against the Mariners (pardon the pun).  Hafner went 2-4 with a walk and two extra base hits and [...]

Travis Hafner is the highest paid position player on the Cleveland Indians and it is about time he started playing that way. He is a career .286 hitter and is well below that thus far in 2008 with a minuscule .210.  Hafner sat out the game tonight and hadn’t had a hit in his twelve [...]

The Indian’s bullpen has been anything but spectacular this year. The Last game against the Yankees for instance when the bullpen gave up three runs in the ninth to lose the game. Though the bullpen has struggled, the starters have been great. This means that when the relief shows up, the Indians will be able [...]

Though starter C.C. Sabathia had a phenomenal pitching performance, the Indians were unable to manufacture a run against Chien-Ming Wang and Mariano Rivera. Sabathia pitched eight complete innings and surrendered just four hits, the solo home-run to Melky Cabrera being the only hit that mattered. The Indians have a two to one lead in the [...]

The Indians were coming into the day today with a full head of steam. They snapped a two game skid in impressive style putting up fifteen against the Royals. The bats were hot in that game and they will look to continue their hitting clinic tomorrow in a double-header against the Royals.

The Cleveland Indians found themselves in a dogfight with the Minnesota Twins today. Both clubs scored runs early in the game, Cleveland with one in the second and Minnesota with one in the Third. The teams were able to manufacture base runners, but no runs. That is until the bottom of the tenth inning [...]

The Indians were able to defeat the Minnesota Twins in the first of a three game series. The Indians were able to score four runs but thanks to the stellar pitching of Cliff Lee (3-0) they only needed one to win. Lee pitched eight innings and surrendered two hits to the Twin lineup. The [...]

After getting trampled by the Tigers in yesterday’s 13-2 loss, the Indians went back to Cleveland and put a beating on Detroit winning 11-1. The Indians had four players with multiple hit games and six different players with RBIs. The bats were not the only thing that were hot, the starter Fausta Carmona gave a [...]

The Cleveland Indians lost to Boston tonight by the score of 6-4. The Indians appeared to be on the way to their sixth win of the season, but a blown save cost them the game. The Indians found themselves leading by one run going into the ninth. Jake Westbrook gave a solid six and a [...]