It's finally over....

It is.. And while I didn't get my Golden Grady Bobblehead(Rain check, jerks), I got my moneys worth at the ballpark tonight with an Indians win. Here's what I got.

Lee Settles In: He started off a little shaky with the runs in the first two innings. But his first five outs were all via the strikeout, he started getting the ball down, and he just had it working from the third inning on.

THAT is the Cliff Lee we want to see.. We've seen him dominant, and that's fine.. But I wanted to see the Cliff Lee that struggles, and then puts it all behind him.. That has been the death of Cliff Lee's games, the fact that he can't put his struggles behind him.

He did that tonight, and now I think we've seen Cliff come full circle. This is what you can expect night in and night out from Big Red. It's the 2-3 runs, 6 solid innings.. He works his magic, gets the job done.

For the record, 6.2 innings, 2 runs off 7 hits, 4 walks and of course the 8 punch outs. After the 2nd inning, no runner made it past first base. Which is just awesome.. He is also one away from his career total in strikeouts.

JUMPIN' JOE!: Heeeeee's back, and he was far from jumping tonight. Topped out at 86, which is a tad low from his high, but still not the 80 mph beach balls he was serving up.

He looked good though. Got the three outs relatively quickly and we all went home.

Thank god for Joe! I think Tom Hamilton put it best tonight when he said, "Order has been restored in the 9th inning."

Shocking to say though.

Francisco: God can this kid hit or what?

A double to set up the first run, and then the rocket he hit to the left field home run porch.. This kid is on fire and he deserves to hit in the cleanup spot or close to it.

Aubrey had the phantom RBI early.. They ruled not only his hit an error, but the RBI as an error(debatable, but Byrd's toss was awful.. And what I'm not calling it, the Raggin' Right Field, let him know just how awful it was).

Then it was Peralta, who had a great night. He had two hits, one the moon shot home run to give the Tribe a three run lead, and then his other two at bats he really hit the ball hard. So, Jhonny put it together, he needs to keep it up.

Wedge: I'm writing a lot on this one cause I managed to hear Eric Wedge's ask the manager show before the game.

He was not happy. It was the most vocal I've heard Wedge ever. He was laying into tons of people, and Hafner I think got the worst of it.

He didn't even say Travis, he called him "Mr. Hafner". That tells me he is not happy with the way Hafner is swinging the bat and he is actually getting sick of it. Not good...

He was very vocal, and he showed a lot of emotion. Something I'm not used to seeing from Wedge when he talks about his players. He doesn't like calling them out, but he is starting to because I think he is done just about anything he can to try and help them, but none of it's working.

Tomorrow, we need a series win!!! C.C. Sabathia will play ace against some kid named Doug Mathis. OH you NEED to win this.. You need to play the games though.

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