Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Scott Elarton? Really?

The Indians really needed this one. Once again, they get out to an early lead and sputter the rest of the way. By the power of Delucci's and Peralta's HR's, they had a 3-1 lead after 5. Thome again kills us by hitting another HR And Pierzynski hit an RBI single to tie up the game. The game then goes into extras, and I was of course worried because of the bull pen with all of the moves that were made bringing borowski back from the DL, calling up ed mujica and for some reason giving scott elarton a chance and letting jensen lewis go back to the minors. Borowski came through with a solid inning, and I know at that point it's the 12th, and you go to your long reliever if you have one. But if that person hadn't relieved a game in 5 years, maybe the top of the 12th isnt the best idea. Masa was overused, that's ok. Julio was still available and he should have been the number 1 go to guy, or even mujica would have been fine. But bringing in Elarton in that situation did not make sense at the time and it still doesn't make sense. Who knows if the Indians would have ever scored, maybe 1 run was possible, but they weren't overcoming 3 runs in the bottom of the 12th. The Indians have now lost 9 of 10 and it's starting to get really old and really sad, really fast. I miss Jensen Lewis, I'm hoping he comes back soon. He's a much better option than Elarton and Borowski. Enough said.

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