Hitters park? What The Hell? Tribe Lose Again

Boy Andy Marte can' t catch a break can he?

He finally gets his chance, guy on first with no one out in the top of the ninth, down two.

He gets into one real good, something that would be destined for extra bases at least.

But, not in the ninth inning my friend.

Not guarding the lines.

No Luck: Just like Marte and that ball hit down the line, the Indians just didn't get it tonight.

They haven't been getting it all season.

I'm starting to get worn out to be quite honest, watching this team, and slowly getting smack in the face with the realization that they don't have anything on their side.

There is no magic like there was last year. There was no lucky bounces.

It seemed like every ball hit hard into that Colorado outfield was dying tonight. Yet everyone the Rockies hit last night was falling in or falling over.

I'm not gonna bash the offense, because quite frankly, I saw way too many hard hit balls tonight to blame them. Francisco had a couple at least, Garko absolutely destroyed one that just missed a home run by a few inches foul. Aaron Laffey even got a good rip into one that Taveras was able to run down.

Jamey Carroll and Shin-Soo Choo had the RBIs, with Casey Blake going 2-4.

Props to Aaron Laffey who punched one up the middle in his first at bat for his first major league hit. He's obviously hit before, the way he swung the bat tonight and even his stance. He also carries a red bat, so watch out Darth Vader.

Punch and Judy: Like I said, a lot of balls were dropping in there last night, and tonight they just seemed to be punching them over the infielders heads.

I don't know what is up with Coors, but the Rockies have certainly perfected playing there.

Laffey did a good job tonight. He went six and gave up three earned, walked three, surrendered eight hits and struck out one. He kept his team in the game the best he could, and really some of those hits were quite simply good hitting by the Rockies or slap hits.

The Indians will try and salvage this stupid series tomorrw. We got Mr Jeremy Sowers against a guy we've absolutely destroyed in the past, Jorge De La Rosa. 7.67 ERA there against the Tribe.

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