8 - 30 - 10 vs. Chicago White Sox L, 10 - 6 (11 innings) 53 - 78
The Indians made a ferocious 9th inning rally that tied the game, only to watch it slip away in extras. In the end, the White Sox, a team still fighting for a playoff birth, simply wanted the game more than the Tribe.
Mitch Talbot threw glorified batting practice in the five innings he worked, and the Sox took advantage as they quickly grabbed a 5 - 0 lead. Paul Konerko's two - run double keyed the outburst.
Cleveland, however, battled right back on the stength of a great night turned in by Travis Hafner. The man known as Pronk went 4 - 5 with three doubles and a run batted in. Hafner's performance coupled with Jayson Nix's two - run homer, kept the Indians in the game, and they entered the 9th only trailing by a 6 - 3 score.
The game - tying rally was accomplished off of Bobby Jenks, and the Tribe did it by putting the first four men on base. Shin - Soo Choo's walk got things rolling, and the Indians had a legitimate threat after another Hafner two - bagger. Shelley Duncan's soft single to left field plated one and also put the tying runs on base. And both of those runs scored when Luis Valbuena chopped an infield single to scond that was combined with a Brent Lillibridge throwing error. Cleveland had knotted the contest at six, but they could do no better than that.
In the 11th, Rafael Perez was one strike away from a 1 - 2 - 3 inning when everything fell apart. Lillibredge atoned for his earlier miscue by stroking a solo bomb and three more Chicago batters came around to touch home plate.
A valiant effort had been wasted.
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