4th batter of the Tribe inning would be Jack Hannhan

J.R. wrote:I don't like the decision to take out Masterson, especially to put in Perez, who saw limited action in ST.

When Masterson ended the inning at 99 pitches....on Opening Day, I think Acta finalized his decision. If his pitch count had been in the low 90's I think Acta would have let him go for the complete game.

Hafner at 2nd!

Gift-wrapped double for Pronk!

Make it a single + an error.

The guy who took away Hannahan's double earlier over ran a single and let the ball get by

Great bunt!

Cunningham with a text book bunt to move Jason Donald (PR) to 3rd

I guess Kipnis would be the 4th batter, and Hannahan the 5th.

Let's have Kotchman end it....

Nope, up to Kipnis

crap.

It's up to Kipnis.

We need Jason to knock Jason in.

crap!

Free baseball

Kotchman couldn't hit a fly ball, and Kipnis grounded out weakly.

It's a bitch to strand the winning runner at 3rd when he got there with one out.


It's a bitch to have the lead off runner at 2nd not score.

Pestano shook off two pitches Santana called on that first batter. One down.


K for Pestano and two down

J.R. wrote:I don't like the decision to take out Masterson, especially to put in Perez, who saw limited action in ST.

I can see not going for the complete game on Opening Day--my guess is that rarely happens anymore. But the point about Perez is a solid one, leaving aside that he shouldn't have been guaranteed the closer role anyway coming off a mediocre 2011.

This team can't afford to throw away starts like Masterson had today. And if memory serves, didn't we have even more trouble scoring in extra innings a year ago than in most situations?