Thursday, April 22, 2010

Cleveland Indians: Anemic Offense Leads to Another Loss

4 - 21 - 10     at Minnesota     L, 6 - 0     6 - 8

      During Spring Training, it seemed that the Indians would have no problems scroring runs this season.  Fast forward two weeks into the regular season, and Tribe is getting pretty good starting pitching, but they are averaging less than 3.5 runs per game.  I guess that's why baseball is not played on paper.
     In this particular contest, the Twins took advantage of an erratic David Huff to grab an early 3 - 0 lead, and then they rode the hot bat of Michael Cuddyer, who hit a homer and drove in three, to grab the victory.
     Every time Cleveland threatened offensively, they were turned away by poor situational hitting, bad luck, great Minnesota defense, or, in most cases, a combination of all three.
     Huff took the loss, and Francisco Liriano shut down the Tribe over eight frames to earn the win.

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