Indians @ Athletics - Billy Beane was a bust as a player and looks nothing like Pitt

• TBone14

  

  Ugghh...he was meat at the plate. Kipnis' throw had to be at least 15 feet up the line. Tough.
  
  Gotta try to grind out another run now.
• Laley23

  

  When was the last time Chisenhall took a pitch???
  
  Tito is starting to piss me off. Asdrubal and Chisenhall shouldn't be near a pennant race together.
• Laley23

  

  8 walks and none of them have scored. That's pathetic.
• TBone14

  

  Left a village on the bases today. Just cannot get a big hit. Frustrating.
  
  Hopefully Balfour is just terrible tonight. Doubtful though.
• Glory Days

  

  Laley23;1488174 wrote:Aviles should have pinch hit there. Lefty on the mound, asdrubal to the bench lol.
  That or Raburn and have Aviles take over in the field in the bottom half...

  Naw, Raburn just signed a new contract, don't want to get him dirty or hurt.
• Glory Days

  

  yeah the 9th is gonna go 1-2-3
• ohiobucks1

  

  I dont blame myself for this. I blame Cabrera and Tito for playing him.
• Glory Days

  

  Lets go Cabrera, hit into a double play
• Laley23

  

  How is he up every damn time we need a hit. Fucking Christ
• TBone14

  

  Calling it. Asdrubal GIDP to end game coming.
• Glory Days

  

  FUCK YOU!
• Laley23

  

  Lol. I won't even give him credit for that. He just sucks.
• TBone14

  

  Story of the night there.
• Laley23

  

  Seriously though...0/20 and he is hitting in key spots all game. Raburn has better numbers in a quarter of the plate appearances.
• Laley23

  

  I just can even feel bad for a guy who is 0/20 and had horrible at bats all night long. Hell, he was probably 1/32 before the most recent 0/20
• vball10set

  TBone14;1488179 wrote:Ugghh...he was meat at the plate. Kipnis' throw had to be at least 15 feet up the line. Tough.
  
  Gotta try to grind out another run now.

  Don't know what's going on with Kipnis defensively--it's like he's regressed after the break
• HitsRus

  

  Just too upset to post last nite....13 runners left on base....0 stolen bases..... waiting for the big hit that doesn't come. Another good pitching performance wasted.
  I agree with others...time to give Druby an extended stretch on the bench. Probably not going to happen.
  
  Reynolds...WTF. 2 for 5 with a HR...he hasn't done that since mid May.
  If Reynolds continues to pound the ball in NY and Druby and Swisher continue to scuffle, could signal a problem with the Tribe's hitting coach. Swisher is at least being productive some of the time, even if he's not putting up numbers as expected/hoped. Santana is another player that seems to have fallen back on some bad habits...trying to pull everything.Michael Brantley failed to deliver a couple of times last nite although he hit the ball well. If he starts to slump, this team will go down fast. ....but Druby? ugh...his swing is ugly and his approach at the plate even worse.
• IggyPride00

  

  Just looked at the wild card standings and man is that starting to slip away. 4.5 back now.
  
  As Hits said, WTF is up with Reynolds? That pissed me off he essentially totaled his HR and RBI totals for like the past 2 months in his first night in NY. Tired of that shit always happening with the Tribe.
• HitsRus

  

  Don't know what's going on with Kipnis defensively--it's like he's regressed after the break

  He may be tired. Last year he really tailed off after the All-Star break offensively and defensively. There was a ground ball single up the middle late in the game last nite, that I thought he could have made a little better effort to try to get...
• Glory Days

  

  IggyPride00;1488257 wrote:Just looked at the wild card standings and man is that starting to slip away. 4.5 back now.
  

  Not only that, Detroit is 4-6 in their last 10 and yet somehow, we are playing worse than that at 3-7, which is worse than the white sox and twins over that span.
• HitsRus

  

  if you look at the games we won lately....we are just barely beating the weak teams.
  
  ...kind of anxious to see the lineup for tonite's game, if Tito has made any changes.
• Glory Days

  

  Swisher puts one into the right field seats for the early lead. However this pitcher made bourne and kipnis look silly.
• Glory Days

  

  and Cabrera has dropped to 6th in the line up behind Brantley.
• Glory Days

  

  Look at that, an RBI single with 2 outs for Cabrera.
• Laley23

  

  Glory Days;1488329 wrote:and Cabrera has dropped to 6th in the line up behind Brantley.

  That happened last night (maybe a few games ago).