Tribe Salvage Series; Lee Looks Great

The Indians survived a sweep at the hands of the Athletics on Sunday. Cliff Lee made his first start of the year and got enough offense to get the win.

Garko The Man: Shark has been the lone man from the get go this season. He's hit safely in all the games up until today (he did go 0-2 with a pair of walks), and has been the sole reason the Indians offense hasn't been completely awful.

Travis Hafner had another hit today, but he continues to just not feel comfortable. Hey I'll take the garbage hits and just wait for him to get comfortable.

The two RBIs in today's game came from Cabrera and Garko, both who didn't record hits. That was an ugly offensive put together, but they got the job done.

Andy Marte played and he came up big.. He got a hit in that inning the Indians scored their two runs, and was replaced by Carroll to run. But it's encouraging to see that.

Jason Michaels got his first hit of the year.

Andy finally out of the 3 hole and hitting behind Garko like he should be, Peralta got two hits.

Cliff Lee Makes Debut: Cliff Lee made his first start today and boy was he good.

He went 6.2 innings giving up only 4 hits and a walk. He gave up a run but it wasn't earned. He also struck out 4.

If Cliff Lee can pitch like this most of the time... MAN that would be awesome. He is technically the fifth starter, and to get this kind of production or at least close to it would be great.

Raffy Dos worked 1.1 combined innings to bridge the gap to Jumpin' Joe, who slammed the door for his second save of the year.

The Indians make the short trip to face the Angels for a three game series. Fausto Carmona takes on Joe Saunders at 10:00 P.M. E.T.

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