Lee, Carmona Lead Tribe to Sweep in Double Header

How about that...

Cliff Lee does it again and out pitches one of the hottest pitchers in the month of April, Brian Bannister.. The Tribe win both games in the double header, and sweep the KC Royals.

Cliff and Carmona: Cliff Lee faced two batters over the minimum, giving up only three hits and striking out nine batters. That is a season high and he just continues to make the opposing team look silly.

His ERA is now down to 0.28. Cliff is probably the best picher in the entire American League so far. He leads the league in ERA, and among all the pitchers who have pitched four games or less, he leads them in innings. He is third in the AL in strikeouts with 29.

Cliff has been spectacular so far. Let's hope he keeps it up.

Carmona had a little bit more of a rougher time out there.. He now leads the Majors in walks after he walked four more.

He did go five and get the win, but he gave up a lot of hits and had a lot of people on base once again. That is how Carmona works, but you wanna see the walks go down, cause that certainly isn't his game.

Rafael Perez came in earlier than expected, gave up a few runs in the 7th, and was relieved by Masa Kobayashi who pitched well in the setup role. Masa came in and got the final out in the 7th and then pitched a perfect 8th.

Rafael Betancourt got his first save chance of the year, and converted. Horray!

The second game was all Cliff Lee, that does wonders for a bullpen in a double header.

Offense keeps rolling: They got a lot of runs off Tomko and the pen in the first game, so against Bannister you were hoping for a couple and Cliff Lee to pitch well.

That is exactly what happened.

Bannister was good, until the 7th when he gave up David Dellucci's third home run of the year and then Asdrubal Cabrera's double to bring in Travis Hafner. The offense would need just those two runs.

The first game they needed a lot more. The first few innings was the main scoring parts of the game. The first inning they tacked on one with Victor Martinez knocking in Jamey Carroll.

In the 2nd Blake Knocked home Francisco and Sizemore knocked in Blake in a very weird play.

The 3rd inning they added four more, Garko knocked in Hafner, Francisco knocked in Martinez, and Jason Michaels knocked home Francisco and Garko.

Grady Sizemore added his 3rd home run of the year in the 5th, and Casey Blake added his 18th RBI of the year in the 7th.. Last week he was batting in the .100's.. Now he leads the team in RBIs.

Everyone but Garko got a hit in the first game... Victor went 3-5 and Grady 4-5.

Travis went 2-4 in the second game, and Shoppach had the other hit for the Indians, Andy Marte went 0-2.

Up next is the four game Yankee homestand. Paul the Wall Byrd goes up against Andy Pettitte. Kennedy/Sowers on Saturday, Wang/Sabathia on Sunday, and Laffey/Mussina on Monday.

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