7 - 27 - 10 vs. New York Yankees W, 4 - 1 42 - 58
It was, quite simply, baseball at its finest. Two outs. 9th inning. Alex Rodriguez at the plate representing the tying run and also attempting to hit his 600th career homer. It appeared as if the baseball gods had aligned fate just right so that A - Rod's milestone long ball would be a clutch one. Then, a funny thing happened on the way to a story book finish. Chris Perez threw a nasty slider, Rodriguez grounded out to the shortstop, and the Indians were victorious.
Prior to Perez's heroics, it was Josh Tomlin who had stolen the show. Making his major league debut, Tomlin dazzled the Yankees through seven frames as he only allowed one run. The outing was good enough to earn him the win against former Indian, C.C. Sabathia.
Cleveland took what proved to be an insurmountable 4 - 0 lead into the 7th, and it came without the use of any real big hits. New York committed two costly errors that led to two unearned runs, and the only RBI hit that the Tribe picked up was a double off the bat of Matt LaPorta in the 6th.
Those four tallies would stand up thanks to Chris Perez and his great pitching against one the best hitters in the game.
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