Tribe Fall, Series Split; Laffey Loses No-No

What a painful game.. Like I said I can take losing to an ace who pitches well. But this one sucks.

Laffey Pitches Well: He pitched as good as you could have expected him too. He got over a first inning walk and error to survive the inning, then went on to no hit the Yankees till the 6th inning. When everything just seemed to fall apart.

Eerily similar to the way Sowers did.. And in the same way.. Laffey was removed and Jensen Lewis came in. He let up some more runs including one charged to himself, and Laffey's good start turned into a mediocre one.

Offense comes up short: The offense just couldn't get it together against Mussina. They had numerous chances to do something. To the tune of 16 men left on base.

Thing is Victor and Travis did not leave any on.. they just didn't have the chances.. Travis knocked one in with a sacrifice fly, but none of the big guys had the chances to knock people in.

Carroll had 5 left on base, Peralta and Dellucci had four.

How much does this team miss Grady Sizemore at the top? David Dellucci just isn't a leadoff guy, he does sit better in the two hole.. Then Carroll wouldn't have been there..

It just is all out of wack, hopefully Grady gets back soon.

Tomorrow it is Carlos Silva and Fausto Carmona at Progressive to kick off a series with the Mariners.

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