Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 19, 2007
Indians Sweep

The Cleveland Indians defeat the Tigers 4-2 and drop their magic number to three. The race in the Central is essentially over, and the Indians put an exclamation mark on the season by sweeping the one rival left in the division. Cleveland is 25-8 since they lost to Detroit on 8/14. The Tribe won 6 of their last seven games against the Tigers.

C.C. Sabathia pitches seven innings for the win, his eighteenth. He allows two runs, lowering his ERA to 3.19, moving him ahead of Beckett for sixth in the AL. He struck out seven and walked one, putting him over 200 Ks for the first time in his career.

Blake homered for the Indians today. In the three game series, Cleveland out homered Detroit 8-1. The Tigers out hit Cleveland in each game of the series, 31-21 overall, but the home runs made the difference.


Posted by David Pinto at 02:52 PM | Division Races | TrackBack (0)
Comments

The Tigers' thud also lowers the postseason magic numbers to three for Boston and six for New York. The contest for the AL East division title looks mostly irrelevant, except for bragging rights.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 19, 2007 03:33 PM

Yes, but bragging rights are very important to me. VERY important.

Posted by: The Yankees Red Sox Rivalry at September 19, 2007 04:43 PM

Nobody expects the Cleveland Indians!

Posted by: cw at September 19, 2007 06:31 PM

"Nobody expects the Cleveland Indians" -- that's right. If they get the best record, it's sabathia-carmona-byrd-sabathia-carmona. Pretty unbeatable.

Posted by: Erik at September 19, 2007 10:41 PM
Post a comment









Remember personal info?