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Perez and Ramirez both did their jobs.


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I just wish we could get Jose Ramirez going.


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From the always-great ⁦@ZackMeisel⁩ today. Can you imagine reading this even 10 years ago? These pitchers are smart and the effect of the analytical approach to their craft is felt on an inning to inning basis. Crazy.



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I hate to say this, but it looked like he was limping a bit on that leg/calf/ankle between 2nd and 3rd base. Hope they aren't rushing him back.


I watched the clip several times now, and I am not seeing what you are.


I just watched it again and if that wasn't a limp as he approached and rounded 3rd base, then he was at least short-striding and running very gingerly on his right ankle. He's also wearing some kind of brace or air cast. High ankle sprains are notoriously slow healing, so I would rather they be cautious now to avoid a recurring problem all season long.

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Great win tonight - 7 shutout innings by Carrasco with 12 K, a solo HR by Jake Bauers, and a 2 inning save by Nick Wittgren in a 1-0 win. Indians sweep Mariners.

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Teams often go whole seasons without a 1-0 win.

For instance, the Yankees didn't have one last year or the year before.

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Ohio high schooler accomplishes extremely rare baseball feat: the home run cycle
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SEATTLE, WA - APRIL 14: A detail shot of a baseball on the baseline during the game between the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field on Friday, April 14, 2017 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Rod Mar/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
A high school baseball player in Ohio accomplished a feat never seen before in Major League Baseball. (Photo by Rod Mar/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Luke Borer, a junior at Perrysburg High School in Ohio, accomplished something you rarely see on a baseball field.

In fact, what Borer did Monday has never happened in Major League Baseball history. Borer hit four home runs in a 22-14 victory, and they were home runs of every variety.

Borer hit a solo shot in his first at-bat, a three-run bomb in his second at-bat, a two-run blast in his fourth at-bat and a grand slam in his fifth trip to the plate. That’s the rare “home run cycle,” something that has never happened at the big league level, only once in college and once in the minors.


Borer’s final statline was 4-for-6 with four home runs, 10 runs batted in and four runs scored. Making the feat even more miraculous is the fact that Borer had never hit a home run at the high school level prior to Monday’s game.

“I still can’t believe I even hit one. Those were the first four home runs of my high school career,” Borer told the Toledo Blade.

Per the Blade, four home runs in one game ties the second-best single-game performance in Ohio high school history. And not to be outdone, Borer’s teammate Nate Ball went 6-for-6 in the win. The six hits tied a state record. That’s a pretty good day for the Yellow Jackets.


Other home run cycles

Back in February, Danielle Gibson, a softball player at the University of Arkansas, hit for the home run cycle in a win over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. She accomplished the feat in the game’s first four innings.


In college baseball, Florida State’s Marshall McDougall blasted an NCAA record six home runs in a win over Maryland in 1999. McDougall went 7-for-7 on the day with 16 RBIs (another NCAA record).

McDougall notched a base hit in his first at-bat and then hit a solo homer in the second inning, a three-run homer in the fourth, a two-run homer to left in the sixth, a three-run homer in the seventh, a grand slam in the eighth and then capped it off with a three-run bomb in the ninth.


There has been just one home run cycle in professional baseball. On July 27, 1998, Tyrone Horne of the Arkansas Travelers, then the Double-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit a two-run homer in the first inning, a grand slam in the second, a solo blast in the fifth and three-run shot in the sixth. Horne’s 10 RBIs paved the way to a 13-4 win.

The bat he used is in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Horne played professionally from 1989 to 2001, but never reached the majors. He reached the Triple-A level in 1996 and 1998.

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I heard of this kid. I think he has potential.

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https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/francisco-lindor-cleveland-indians

Being away from the field for the start of this season got me thinking a lot about who I am, and where I’ve been, and what I truly love.

For me, it all comes back to God, family and baseball.

And for some reason the more I thought about my journey, the more my mind kept returning to this one particular dream I always used to have when I was a teenager.

I’m wearing my uniform, and I’m in this huge stadium. I’m heading down a long hallway on the ground level. There’s no locker rooms or clubhouse in the dream, it’s just a big hallway with these two gigantic doors at the end.

So I walk slowly down the hallway, and then I finally get to the doors.

I push them open, and I see….

The field.

It’s so beautiful. Beyond beautiful, really.

And it’s just like the ones I’d see when I used to play PlayStation 2 after school. With the bright lights way up high. And the stands with separate levels. And the perfect green grass.

Every time I’d get to that point in the dream I’d be so happy. Like just totally overjoyed.

Then, things kind of shift in my dream, and I’m out at short playing defense — diving headfirst to make a great stop, or snagging a line drive out of the air. But the weird thing about it is that while I’m out there on the field, I am completely alone.

There is no one else in the stadium — no fans or coaches, and no teammates. I’m all by myself.

Someone had to be hitting the ball my way in order for me to make the plays I was seeing myself make. And someone had to be over at first to catch my throws. But in those dreams, there was no one but me.

It was just me and a baseball, you know what I mean?

That’s all there was.


When I was younger, I didn’t think too much about that dream, but lately it has been popping into my head at random times. I remember it in vivid detail, but until recently, when it came into my head, I would find myself wondering what it meant. I didn’t really understand the dream.

It didn’t make sense to me, because when I was young there were always lots of people playing baseball with me. I was never alone. I was always on teams with tons of other kids. And my dad, my older brother, Miguel, and my cousin Christian were always taking me to the neighborhood field. When I wasn’t doing something with a team, the four of us would practice together constantly. Miguel and Christian were several years older than me, and I wanted to be just like them when I grew up. Seeing all the things they could do on the field made me want to improve every single day. And my dad just kind of took it from there. He loves the game of baseball and passed his passion down to me starting when I was very young. Everything was always about fundamentals with him. Not just how to catch and throw and hit, but how to analyze the game and anticipate things before they happen.

My dad taught me my swing, and had me switch-hitting pretty much as soon as I started walking and running around. Back then I’d always want to hit lefty, and he’d do this thing where … he’d basically trick me into taking more swings from the right side, just so I’d get better at it. I remember it to this day.

“Francisco, here’s what I’ll do,” he’d say. “If you hit this bucket of balls from the right side, then I will let you bat from the left.”

So I’d do it.

But what he wouldn’t tell me was that if I missed one ball from the big bucket — even just one ball out of all of them — I would have to do the whole bucket again hitting righty.

So he’d basically have me batting from the right side the entire time. And I guess if you do that long enough, you almost can’t help but become a switch-hitter. But to this day, the swing I have now is the exact same swing he taught me back then. It comes from him, from what he taught me all the way back when I was little.



In addition to having no one on the field with me in that dream, the other thing about it that seemed odd was the empty stands — the fact that no one was watching me, and that I was playing the game in complete silence.

If you know anything about baseball in my home country of Puerto Rico, you know that we aren’t really known for silence when it comes to sports.

Especially baseball.

In Puerto Rico, baseball games are played to the sounds of drums, and whistles, and rhythm and singing and dancing and … planeras! People go nuts with the planeras when something good happens for their team. They bang on those three hand drums with so much spirit and energy.

Baseball, to me, has always been all about joy.

When I was 12 my dad came up with the idea of bringing me with him to Florida to live. He felt like it would benefit me to learn a new language and culture, and that it would allow me to play against different players than I faced in Puerto Rico.

My dad had already moved to Florida a little while before that, but my mom was going to stay back in Puerto Rico.

It was an intimidating moment, being in a completely different place without anything familiar. And when my dad took me to the boarding school I would be attending, I learned that I would have to stay in the dorms there. So even though my dad was in the States with me, we were still apart from one another.

Then there was the fact that I was completely unable to communicate with anyone there. That would be bad enough on its own for the average person. But for me? I’m someone who loves to talk. I’ve always been that way. So going from constantly talking back home, to not being able to understand anyone, was a huge shock to my system.

On the field, I was used to playing in Puerto Rico with kids who were 11 and 12, and being able to hold my own pretty easily. But then I get to the United States and I’m playing on the varsity team at 13, with kids who are 17 and 18 years old. They hit harder, they could throw farther and run faster, and they were much stronger than I was. I remember during my first games there I had to grab the shortest bat on the rack … and I still needed to choke up on it a little to be able to swing it.

Looking back at that time in my life now, I’m pretty sure that’s where my dreams about being alone on the field came from.

That period was by far the most challenging of my life — living at Montverde Academy where no one knew me and I couldn’t talk to anyone, playing baseball with guys who were much older than I was and not fitting in. It all just added up. You know what I mean?

Eventually, though, there were a few things that helped me get beyond that period. The first one was learning English.

I did it little by little, and it took some time, but it was such a huge thing for me. I took summer classes after my first year at Montverde Academy and started using Google to look up things on my own. The faculty and staff really took the time in helping me make progress. I also just really began paying attention to everything around me, and asking questions and doing all I could to learn. Then, in a year and a half … I knew English.

It changed everything for me.

All of a sudden I had my swag back. I could read signs, understand exams, have fun watching movies, and … I could talk to people!

I can’t tell you how nice it was to be able to talk to people again. It was a gift. It really was.

And then I was basically able to start being myself again on the field.

I went back to being that little kid on the dirt fields in Caguas. The boy who loved nothing more than to be taking grounders with his father or practicing opposite-field hitting with his big brother. Everything I did on the baseball diamond became about joy again.

And fun.

And once that happened, it all came together for me.

Before I knew it there were tournament MVPs, and All-America honors, and scouts everywhere, and then the MLB draft … and the Indians, and All-Star Games, and Silver Slugger awards, and the World Series, designing signature cleats and shoes with New Balance, and just everything I could’ve ever imagined as a kid and more.

But it all just really goes back to something as simple as me playing the game with passion and love and joy.

So now, here I am.

Back. Ready to roll. Ready to help this team win it all.

And after having missed this game so much for the past several weeks, and spending some time thinking about the ups and downs I’ve experienced to get here, I am going to cherish every single second I am able to play this game.

I will not take anything for granted — not any pitch, ground ball, hit … nothing.

I’m someone who loves to have fun on the field — to laugh and smile and shout and give high fives and allow my emotions to come through. That’s who I am. It’s where I’m from. And I am proud of that.

You will never have to worry about me playing hard or giving everything I have. That’s all part of my makeup. I wouldn’t know how to play any other way. But at the same time, I’m also going to be laughing out there, and responding to fans in the seats when something funny happens, and talking to whoever reaches second base.

I’m never going to show anyone up. And I will always show the utmost respect for the game, and for those who have paved the way for me. I am going to be grateful and humble and appreciative.

But I am also going to have fun out there.


I can’t stop being me because someone doesn’t like that I smile a lot, or that I clap my hands and yell, “Come on! Let’s go!” to my teammates.

I just can’t do that. It’s not me, you know what I mean?

So I’m going to have a good time playing this game. And I can tell you for certain: When I’m doing that, and playing with that joy, you’re seeing the version of me from the streets of Caguas that gives the Indians the best shot to win a World Series. That’s me at my very best. That’s me giving everything I have to my team.

I want to do everything I can to maximize whatever talent I bring to this game. I want it to be so that when it comes time for me to stop playing, I can truly say that I started out with a towel full of water … and over the course of my career, I wrung it, and wrung it, and wrung it, and then I wrung it again, and then flipped it over and wrung it some more, and just kept wringing it until the very last drop of water came out of the towel and whatever was once there is now completely gone.

And when you watch me, I promise that you will be able to see the joy on my face.

Because, for me, every single day I get a chance to play this game is like a dream come true.

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Francisco Lindor activated, Hanley Ramirez DFA'd.

https://www.cleveland.com/tribe/2019/04/...assignment.html

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Took the dog out, and it was 2-2 Indians.

Come back in, and it's 8-2 Tribe. laugh


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Go back outside, Braves just homered twice. 8-4.

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After winning Game 1 of the doubleheader 8-4, the Indians lead the nightcap 7-0 in the 3rd, with Trevor Bauer pitching.

Edit: you can come back in the house, Ytown.

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After winning Game 1 of the doubleheader 8-4, the Indians lead the nightcap 7-0 in the 3rd, with Trevor Bauer pitching.

Edit: you can come back in the house, Ytown.


O-o-o-o-o-h-h-h th-th-th-th-ank g-g-g-g-g-oodness .... it's c-c-c-cold a-a-and w-w-w-w-w-et out th-th-th-th-ere


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*Sigh* OK, back into the rain. crazy


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Witnessed total collapse by the Pen !

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I know Tito has been singing the praises of Adam Cimber, but I'm not a fan. That submarine style doesn't really faze major league hitters, especially once they've seen him a time or two. Plus, in his 3 MLB years prior to this season, LH hitters had a .329 avg and an OPS of 1.062 against him, which pretty much qualifies him to be a matchup righty, not your set-up guy.

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This weekend stunk badly. Why are some of these guys kept in the bull pen?

The announcing last night was lame. One of the few times I get to see them down here and they turn into stinker games.


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The shame is stinking it up at Home in front of good crowds !

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I'm still very confident that Tito is an excellent manager.

In this weekend series, it sure looked like pitching Hand for a full 9th inning with a 4 run lead in the first game on Saturday was a huge blunder.

Obviously if this had been the middle of the world series he would not have done that. He would not have risked using/tiring Hand.

But the upside of the next two loses?

I think every single relief pitcher pitched in them (except Hand).

Using these relievers is good. Gives them experience, let's Tito evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.

Good to do this in April.

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I know Tito has been singing the praises of Adam Cimber, but I'm not a fan. That submarine style doesn't really faze major league hitters, especially once they've seen him a time or two. Plus, in his 3 MLB years prior to this season, LH hitters had a .329 avg and an OPS of 1.062 against him, which pretty much qualifies him to be a matchup righty, not your set-up guy.


I hate Cimber, he only throws maybe mid 80’s mostly low 80’s, he just doesn’t get it done for me.

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In baseball, pretty much every team is going to win 60 games and lose 60 games. What they do in the other 42 tells the tale. I think the Tribe will win 30 of those 42 and take the division.


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Chris Sale is really starting to earn his five-year, $145 million contract extension.

Well, except for the 0-4 record and 7.43 ERA. And the fact that the Sox have lost all 5 of his starts so far.

But, hey, he didn't lose today. (Sox still did)

By contrast, Ron Guidry lost 3 games in 35 starts in the entire 1978 season. Three games lost in 6 months. That's like, uh, inconceivable.



And Guidry probably earned $40,000.

(OK he really made $47,000 in 1978 - I just looked it up. I was close.)


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Man, I hope Carrasco is OK. Evidently he left in the 4th after falling trying to cover 1st, and has "left knee discomfort".


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Whew! We dodged one there.


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Another nice pitching win.

Houston looked scary confident.

Good to see the Tribe hang with the elite.

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A wise man told me this evening: “looked like the Astros couldn’t hit Bauer.. maybe cause they weren’t stealing signs?”

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