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Indians Tidbits (2007 Season)

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Cleveland Indians manager Eric Wedge named Sporting News Manager of the Year

Posted by mstarkey October 15, 2007 11:34AM

Eric Wedge today was named American League Manager of the Year by the Sporting News.
Wedge received six votes, while Angels manager Mike Scioscia was second with four.
Indians lefthander C.C. Sabathia was named the starting pitcher on the Sporting News AL All-Star team and Joe Borowski is the closer.
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was named Major League Player of the Year. Arizona's Bob Melvin was the National League Manager of the Year. Third baseman Ryan Braun of Milwaukee and Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia are the AL and NL Rookies of the Year, respectively.
 
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Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-2, in Game 3 of the ALCS

Westbrook leads Tribe to 2-1 edge
Tuesday, October 16, 2007Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Patience is a virtue, but sometimes it can be a real pain.
C.C. Sabathia and Fausto Carmona ran into that problem in games 1 and 2 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park. Boston's patient hitters made them throw too many pitches, and neither one made it through the fifth inning.


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ALCS won't be bugged with spray


Tuesday, October 16, 2007Mark Gillispie and Jodie Valade
Plain Dealer Reporters
Jacobs Field head groundskeeper Brandon Koehnke didn't invest in gallons of bug spray. No mosquito netting covers the top of the ballpark. And there's no way the Indians even thought about fumigating.
If the midges return to Cleveland during this American League Championship Series, there's nothing the Indians will do to prevent the swarms of pesky bugs from descending upon the field and attacking the players.




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Cleveland Indians' Asdrubal Cabrera delivers at bat and in the field in Game 3 victory



Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Joe Maxse

Plain Dealer Reporter
Asdrubal Cabrera was in the middle of it all during Monday night's 4-2 win against the Red Sox in Game 3 of the AL Championship Series.
That should come as no huge surprise. The Tribe's rookie second baseman has usually been in the mix since being called up from Class AAA Buffalo on Aug. 7. So making plays in the field or coming through at the plate is nothing new.
Still, Monday might have been Boston's first true glimpse of Cabrera's contributions.




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Cleveland Indians to face the Boston Red Sox's Tim Wakefield in Game 4 of ALCS



Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Jodie Valade

Plain Dealer Reporter
Tim Wakefield isn't worried. His manager, Terry Francona, doesn't have the slightest concern, either. Well, no more concern than usual, that is.
Even though the right-handed knuckleballer hasn't pitched since Sept. 29 and was left off Boston's American League Division Series roster because of a right shoulder that required a cortisone shot, Wakefield will start tonight's AL Championship Series Game 4 between the Indians and Red Sox.




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David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez held in check against Cleveland Indians



Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Mary Schmitt Boyer

Plain Dealer Reporter
The Indians have had lot of trouble getting David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez out. Monday night they tried something different. They let the Boston Red Sox do it.
Ortiz dou bled to lead off the fourth but was out when Rami rez's ground ball to short hit him in the thigh. That kind of luck, and some good defense, helped the Indians to a 4-2 victory over the Red Sox in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Jacobs Field. Cleveland leads the series, 2-1. Game 4 is tonight at Jacobs Field.
Boston manager Terry Francona took the freak play in stride.




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Jhonny Peralta off to good start in playoffs for Cleveland Indians


Tuesday, October 16, 2007Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Rosa Peralta took a lot of grief in Santiago, Dominican Republic, when the Indians were getting ready to play the New York Yankees in the American League Division Series.
"The Yankees are big in the Dominican," said shortstop Jhonny Peralta. "Everybody is a Yankees fan."
The Indians and the Peralta family had the last laugh. The Indians eliminated New York in four games, and Peralta hit .467 (7-for-15) in the series.




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Lofton's shot recalls falls past



Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Bill Livingston

Plain Dealer Columnist
When the autumn light would lie low and golden over the ballpark that was wedged into the Hough neighborhood, League Park was where victory lived.
The red brick of the grandstand is almost all that remains of Cleveland's lone stadium that was undefeated in the postseason. Nothing remains of the 60-foot-high right-field wall, big enough to dwarf Fenway's Green Monster. In 1929, Babe Ruth hit his 500th home run over that towering wall, which stood only 290 feet from home plate. Babe wasn't bulked up on anything more than hot dogs, either.




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With one swing, Lofton steals the show



Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Jodie Valade

Plain Dealer Reporter
Maybe no one noticed, but Kenny Lofton has been frustrated.
It might be difficult to distinguish frustration on a face perpetually set in intense focus, but the irritation has been bubbling closer to the surface with each passing game.
The left fielder has come close lately, but not close enough. He hadn't knocked a home run in the postseason since 2004, and none at all for the Indians since he came to Cleveland in a late-July trade. Three long postseason years and 205 at-bats this year were wearing on Lofton by the time he walked to the plate in the second inning of Monday's Game 3 against Boston in this American League Championship Series.




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Tribe bullpen rockin' the Jake
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
BY TODD PORTER

CLEVELAND

Imagine watching six innings of the most intense, bite-your-nails playoff baseball. OK, so you did that Monday night and saw the Indians hold on for dear life to take a 2-to-1 lead in this best-of-seven series against Boston.

Now imagine doing it as Jacobs Field is bouncing on the corner of Ontario and Carnegie. With 44,406 crazy-loud Indians fan plugging in, the atmosphere was electric.


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Nixon earns LCS start
Tuesday, October 16, 2007


CLEVELAND Trot Nixon, one of several players who contributed significantly to Cleveland's Game 2 victory in the American League Championship Series, was a surprise entry in the starting lineup for Game 3.

Nixon's pinch-hit RBI single sparked the Indians' seven-run 11th inning during Saturday's 13-6 win at Fenway Park. He batted eighth Monday against Boston starter Daisuke Matsuzaka.

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Byrd, Wakefield feature own unique pitching styles
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
By CHRIS BEAVEN

CLEVELAND Don't look for any 95-mph fastballs from tonight's starting pitchers at Jacobs Field. If the radar gun registers 90, check it.

But Paul Byrd and Tim Wakefield will bring their unique approaches to pitching, complete with their own entourages of sorts to Game 4 of the ALCS.

"I told him if he'll bring his personal catcher, I'll bring mine and we'll do a little battle," Byrd said before Game 3 Monday. "... This may be the slowest throwing right-handed matchup of all time in the postseason."

Speed records may not be set once the game starts at 8:21, but Byrd and Wakefield do know how to pitch

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Lofton feels he got lucky
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
By CHRIS BEAVEN

CLEVELAND The chants started as soon as Kenny Lofton headed to home plate for his first at-bat Monday.

Ken-ny ... Ken-ny ... Ken-ny.

The 40-year-old in his third go-around with the Indians wanted to savor the moment, just a bit. That is, after all, his advice to his young teammates. But he quickly thought something else, too:

"Try to do something."

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Westbrook grounds Red Sox; Tribe leads ALCS 2-1
UPDATE: 12:28 AM, Tuesday, October 16, 2007
BY Andy Call
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

CLEVELAND Jake Westbrook is a team player.

To clarify ? when Westbrook pitches, he uses the entire team standing behind him. His sinkerball delivery often results in a busy night for infielders, and turning double plays is definitely part of the evening?s agenda.

Westbrook?s teammates stayed alert Monday, turning three critical double plays that helped him shut out Boston for six innings of Cleveland?s 4-2 victory in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Jacobs Field.

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Championship baseball is back, and the Jake rocks
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
BY TODD PORER

CLEVELAND

This isn't the Cleveland that Harold Reynolds remembers playing in. Not by a long shot, or a Manny Ramirez home run that lands in Lake Erie.

The Cleveland that Reynolds, who played 10 of his 12 seasons with the Mariners, found himself in the middle of was abuzz Monday. The Indians gave themselves - and their fans - new life even if most of them were asleep early Sunday.

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