Rodriguez just blew away the 3rd out with a 97 MPH fastball.

This dude is becoming more and more interesting as we go.

The Indians park is serving a hotdog that has bacon, mac n cheese, and fruit loops on it.

I can’t make this up.

Guess what starting pitcher entering today's game with an ERA over 5 has shut down the opposition on 1 hit and no runs in his first three innings tonight?

Rodriguez got himself out of a bases loaded 1 out situation, ground out by Bauer's friend Anderson and completes the escape with a strikeout.

Now he's entitled to a brief rest while Giolito ready to quickly take care of Kipnis Ramirez and Santana, one of whom is hitting over 200.

Me of little faith: Kipnis doubles!! three shots now to bring him in.

Ramirez long foul fly moves Kipnis 90 feet.

Santana quickly pops up to short.

Its up to CarGo. Are we beginning to understand why he didn't get any serious free agent offers last winter?

Yes, we are, as he lines out and Kipnis leadoff double does no good. We did make their ace work, though, making he throw 8 pitches in the inning

It may not have been obvious to anyone who has not watched, listened or followed this team, but this offense is really awful. Reminds me of the Tribe lineups of my youth which regularly also failed to back up some really solid starting pitchers like McDowell, Tiant, Siebert.

Civ, you nailed it. I was just going to say I feel sorry for Rodregius pitching with this kind of support.

Oh yeah and the announcers were going through a list of numbers at the beginning of the game to show how bad the offense is.

On a more positive note, Jef Rodriguez!!!!!??????

Dare we believe that we could have another good starter?

I feel sorry for the whole pitching staff. JRod could be good enough to fill a gap when we trade Bauer. Kluber probably won't be tradeable until the offseason; too bad, sometimes deadline deal packages can be specially good ones. Kluber came in a deadline trade of Westbrook, but Bauer was an offseason pickup.

2-0. Game is out of hand now,. I head back to my books.

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Adam Plutko allowed 5 earned runs in 1/3 of an inning tonight for Columbus.