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well, that is the 1st place Tribe. taking 2/3 from Detroit + KC starting their decent was enough to get the Indians into 1st place.
hey, if Ubaldo can keep out-dueling Verlander all year....
(ok, kidding, but just another example of how crazy of a sport baseball can be)
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well, that is the 1st place Tribe. taking 2/3 from Detroit + KC starting their decent was enough to get the Indians into 1st place.
hey, if Ubaldo can keep out-dueling Verlander all year....
(ok, kidding, but just another example of how crazy of a sport baseball can be)
If Ubaldo keeps this up, look out. 
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*knock on wood* (My head)  Ubaldo has had 3 pretty good outings in a row for the Tribe. In those 3 outings, he has gone 7, , 5 2/3, and 6 innings, has allowed a total of 10 hits, 3 earned runs, 6 walks, and has struck out 20. I don't remember this good a stretch last season. He did have back to back solid games last year, but I don't remember 3 good games in a row. When Francona was signed, he said that he didn't think that Jimenez needed a complete overhaul, just some better mechanics. Who knows .... maybe he was right? Our pitching coach has kind of taken Jimenez under his wing, and even went down to the Dominican Republic to work with him in the off-season. Maybe all of that faith and hard work is starting to pay off?
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Ubaldo has had 3 pretty good outings in a row for the Tribe. In those 3 outings, he has gone 7, , 5 2/3, and 6 innings, has allowed a total of 10 hits, 3 earned runs, 6 walks, and has struck out 20.
I don't remember this good a stretch last season. He did have back to back solid games last year, but I don't remember 3 good games in a row.
When Francona was signed, he said that he didn't think that Jimenez needed a complete overhaul, just some better mechanics. Who knows .... maybe he was right? Our pitching coach has kind of taken Jimenez under his wing, and even went down to the Dominican Republic to work with him in the off-season. Maybe all of that faith and hard work is starting to pay off?
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Not sure what they did with him, but he's locating it better and keeping the velocity up. Maybe it's unfair, but I'm still waiting for that other shoe to drop with him. I hope he keeps it up.
I thought McAllister did an unbelievable job yesterday despite not having his best stuff. Kept them in the game. Got out of some tough situations. I really think that's where Tito and his staff are playing the biggest role.
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I'll have to watch some of the replay, but Ubaldo was really striding to his left as he delivered the ball. If they got him to stride more toward the plate that would fix some of his issues with the ball floating right and high. It would also help keep his velocity up. Anybody notice if this has been corrected?
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McAllister has been very impressive so far this season.
7 starts, and a 2.68 ERA. That's impressive so far. He hasn't given up more than 3 earned runs in any start this year. He has gone at least 5 innings in every start so far. He has limited the walks. He has also suffered from up and down run support. He has lost games when the Indians have scored 0, 3, and 4 runs .... and won a 1-0 game, and yesterday's game 4-3. That's 5 of 7 starts with 4 or fewer runs in support of his pitching. Without checking, I think that is probably the worst among Indians starting pitching.
I did check Jimenez. He, by comparison, has received 3(W), 6(L), 2(L), 5(W), 9(W), 7(W), and 7(W) runs in support.
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His velocity isn't near what it was 3-4 years ago. He use to throw around 98mph, I think he is topping out around 95mph but is consistently around 91/92mph. One of his problems the last few years is he was trying to reach back and throw it 98mph and in an effort to throw harder he was not locating the ball. They have been working on him locating the ball and trusting the 91mph fastball, and right now it looks like it is working.
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McAllister has been our most consistent SP. Both last year and the start of this year. I don't think he'll ever be an ace, but he's a Jake Westbrook type of consistent good performing SP when we desperately need one.
And, if Ubaldo/Masterson come back into form this year and Kazmir rebounds to have a good year while Bauer develops and McAllister continues to take steps forward, then every single Indian's fan will have to get to know the name Mickey Calloway (our pitching coach)
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Wow... he had such a good spring. I thought there was a chance that the light had gone on for him. He has really struggled early on though. You never know in this game, I guess. 
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I sure hope the Tribe plays the Yankees or Red Sox soon, I'd like to watch a game on television.
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I sure hope the Tribe plays the Yankees or Red Sox soon, I'd like to watch a game on television.
they are playing the NYY on my computer screen right now (don't know what the TV schedule is for either of these games)
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They play a double-header vs. the Yanks today. Maybe the second game will be on national TV? Masterson has another gem going in the first game (3-hitter through 6). Of course, we aren't scoring many runs for him at the moment. 1-0 bottom of six though.
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7th inning stretch time and the Tribe leads the Yankees 1-0.
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Masterson got absolutely filthy to finish off Suzuki. That pitches broke so hard in and down that Suzuki had no chance.
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I have it on the radio. Hamilton about busted a gut calling it (as he is want to do). LOL
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Oh it was vile. That ball broke like it was metal and a magnet was dragging it in and down. Suzuki had no chance.
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What a game by Masterson!
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Masterson finishes off a real gem, winning the 1-0 shutout.  He allowed 4 singles, only 1 left the infield. The one that left the infield was some strange situation where Cabrera appeared to lose the ball somehow.
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This was THE best outcome for the Indians resting the bullpen in a double header and Thursday being the next off day.
Things are really going well for this club.
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What a game by Masterson!
Heck yeah. If Masterson and Jimenez keep pitching as well as they have been then we are a contender for the World Series this year.
Anything can happen and still a long way to go but I am liking what I am seeing so far.
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1 run scored enough for Masterson. I like it.
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Great pitching performance, also with a little help from his defense ...
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Heck yeah. If Masterson and Jimenez keep pitching as well as they have been then we are a contender for the World Series this year.
Anything can happen and still a long way to go but I am liking what I am seeing so far.
McCallister has been pretty good too ... JMHO
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This was THE best outcome for the Indians resting the bullpen in a double header and Thursday being the next off day.
Things are really going well for this club.
That goes a long way in the clubhouse when you can save your bulllpen like that.
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Man, not a good start to today's game. There should be 3 errors so far. You can never assume the 2nd out of a double play, but a good throw turns 2 to get the first 2 puts of the inning ....... and there should have been a double error on Santana on the play at first base.
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oh man, I should have paid attention to the start time. I shut down my mlb.tv after the 1st game just figuring the 2nd game was tonight.
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Man, not a good start to today's game. There should be 3 errors so far. You can never assume the 2nd out of a double play, but a good throw turns 2 to get the first 2 puts of the inning ....... and there should have been a double error on Santana on the play at first base.
Santana can't play first.
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some really questionable balls and strikes in the 7th...
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He's got to be sent down shortly. Huff stays as long man until Pestano comes back on Friday. Bauer goes down and you call up an extra bat for the NL series.
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I thought Bauer got some really bad calls in last night's game. I remember them showing a replay of nice fat curveball that dropped right in the strike zone that was called a ball  . Unfortunately, until these young guys can show some consistency, the Yanks and others will get the benefit of those calls. Very encouraged with Masterson, though
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Yeah, I thought that Bauer got hosed on several calls too.
I am concerned about Hagadone. He did pretty well until his last 2 appearances. In his 1st 10 appearances, he gave up a total of 2 earned runs. Then he gave up 3 earned runs in each game, (7 total runs) in just a total of 1/3 of an inning. Ouch.
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I thought there were some really inconsistent calls in the A's series, also. Good thing that the one really badly blown call was for us.
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