Carlos Carrasco left Sunday's start against the Twins after three innings with right elbow tightness.
Carrasco surrendered two runs on six hits and two walks while striking out one. Jeanmar Gomez replaced Carrasco in the fourth inning of the loss. We'll update you on Carrasco's status when more information becomes available. Sunday's outing snapped his streak of three consecutive quality starts.

While we lost it is still an interesting team to watch, we no longer seem to be pushovers. I had the Twins feed today and boy, are they annoying!

civ ollilavad wrote:Where are today's game posts? Are we up GameTime2? From reading the PBP at ESPN it appears that the highlight for Cleveland today was the 3rd when Choo nailed two runners at home, depriving Carrasco of a really big inning. Carlos left after 3 and the Indians rallied to go ahead 3-2. Gomez shut the door until the 7th when after he put one on, Raffy P came in and suffered an OCabrera error and allowed tying and goahead runs.

Since we knew everything would not continue to stay perfect, we have now suffered from a couple back to back rotten starts; a couple blown leads. and key error. And since every team has a run of bad spells as well as good ones; it will be very interesting to see how long it takes to get back to the solid play we've had consistently for several weeks.

Hey, it's pretty nifty to lose three in a row in April and still be in first place by 1 1/2 games.

I have this new ability to see the games on the iPhone, so the mobility options kept me....for one...... from being here for Gametime.

I'll try to do better tomorrow.

Oh.

No game tomorrow.

We'll get 'em Tuesday.


We're in First Place, and have been and will be.......assuredly....... for about three weeks.

Breathe deep on the positive.

One disadvantage of iPhone viewing is being able to confidently argue on home run review calls.


I thought Brantley's home run that was overturned and decided the game possibly dinged off the lower rail after hit it hit the top of the Minnesota stadium granite wall facade.

When I watched the replays on my iPhone I couldn't tell and just acquiesced to the obviously Twins loving/Tribe hating umpires.....

Where are today's game posts?

It was Easter Sunday. I enjoyed time with my family.

I figured families were all gathered around the I-Phones and I-Pads watching the ball games.

BARON: I was quoting CIV- hence the italics.

Tonight's lineups:

Royals (12-10): 3B Mike Aviles (R), CF Melky Cabrera (S), LF Alex Gordon (L), DH Billy Butler (R), RF Jeff Francoeur (R), 1B Kila Ka'aihue (L), SS Alcides Escobar (R), C Matt Treanor (C), 2B Chris Getz (L) and Luke Hochevar (2-2, 5.12).

Indians (13-8): CF Grady Sizemore (L), SS Asdrubal Cabrera (S), RF Shin-Soo Choo (L), C Carlos Santana (S), DH Travis Hafner (L), 2B Orlando Cabrera (R), LF Michael Brantley (L), 1B Matt LaPorta (R), 3B Jack Hannahan (L) and RHP Justin Masterson (4-0, 1.71).

Him vs. me: KC's Aviles is 4-for-9 and Gordon 4-for-10 vs. Masterson. Choo is hitting .600 (12-for-20) with four doubles, three homers and nine RBI against Hochevar.

Lineup notes: Lefties are hitting .283 (15-for-53) against Masterson this season. Righties are hitting .140 (6-for-43). The Royals have three lefties and a switch-hitter in tonight's lineup. Lefties are hitting .169 (11-for-65) and righties .271 (16-for-59) against Hochevar. The Indians have two right handers and two switch hitters in the lineup. They have five lefties in the lineup.

Quote of the day: "I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all of those handshakes," Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto.

Umpires: H Wally Bell, 1B Laz Diaz, 2B Scott Barry, 3B John Hirschbeck.

Next: LHP Jeff Francisco(0-2, 4.06) vs. RHP Josh Tomlin (3-0, 2.33) Wednesday night at 7:05 p.m.

HANNRAHAN HR!!!....2-0

Grady not tagged out stealing second.....

but we roll to the 4th...2-0

Masterson just allowed a single after 10 outs in a row to start the game. What's with him anyway? All the experts insist he can't retire lefties and would be much more effective as a late game reliever.

I guess the experts are right, two doubles follow and we're tied at 2 with still one man out and a runner in scoring position

One more single puts them on the corners, but Masterson gets out up with a K Ka'aihue DP.

HANNAHAN and LAPORTA BACK TO BACK JACKS!!!!