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Indians Tidbits (2007 Season)

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CPD

Walks defined starting pitching in ALCS SCRIBBLES IN MY PLAYOFF NOTEBOOK....


Monday, October 22, 2007
Baseball has really dropped the standard for pitching, as three runs in six innings is considered a "quality start." Well, Jake Westbrook was the only Tribe pitcher in this series to do it. He did it twice, including the two runs in seven innings he allowed in Game 3. He walked four (one intentional) in 13 innings. Compare that to C.C. Sabathia and Fausto Caromona, who combined to walk 16 in 16 1/3 innings. If you look at Boston, Josh Beckett had only one walk in 14 innings of his two victories. Curt Schilling didn't walk anyone in 11 2/3 innings against the Tribe. And Daisuke Matsuzaka didn't walk anyone in Game 7 in five innings. So Boston's four victories, its starting pitchers walked only one in 26 innings!
Why were the Indians in so much trouble in this series?




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Canton

Indians fans see Game 7 loss on Jacobs Field?s big screen
Monday, October 22, 2007
By M.R. KROPKO
Associated press Writer

CLEVELAND (AP) ? The bubble has burst for loyal Cleveland Indians fans. The Boston Red Sox are going to the World Series.

Boston?s 11-2 win Sunday night completed the three in a row the Red Sox had to have to overcome a three games to one Cleveland advantage in the American League Championship Series.

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Tribe fans hang on until another bitter end
Monday, October 22, 2007
BY JOSEPH GARTRELL
REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER

CLEVELAND The stadium is going into hibernation now.

Until April, Jacobs Field will sit at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario with its lights off. No more glow and hope.

A season of so many bizarre and great moments ended Sunday night with the Indians' 11-2 loss in the decisive Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.

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Canton

Choke complete
Monday, October 22, 2007
By TODD PORTER

BOSTON

The Indians tried to win Game 7 of the American League Championship Series using the kind of magic not usually found in pro sports.

A sense of team and innocence somehow turned into, "Look ma, no hands."

That's because the Tribe had them wrapped around their own neck, really, since this series left Jacobs Field and headed back to Boston.


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Canton

THEY LOST IT HERE
Monday, October 22, 2007


ALCS PRIMER

Opportunity wasted

The Indians were trailing 3-2 with one out in the seventh when Kenny Lofton reached second on Julio Lugo's error. Franklin Gutierrez followed with a single down the left-field line, but Indians third-base coach Joel Skinner held Lofton when the ball caromed off the wall to left fielder Manny Ramirez. On the first pitch he saw from Hideki Okajima, Casey Blake grounded into an inning-ending double play. The Indians never recovered.

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Blade

Article published Monday, October 22, 2007
BOSTON 11, CLEVELAND 2
Indians' dream dies: Red Sox pour it on, go to Series

By DAVE HACKENBERG
BLADE SPORTS COLUMNIST

BOSTON ? Boston Red Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka broke Grady Sizemore?s bat on the second pitch of last night?s game. Some 3? hours later, the Cleveland Indians had their hearts broken too in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.

Boston won 11-2, sweeping the final three games of the ALCS to advance to the World Series.

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Dispatch

Tribe denied World Series after blowing 3-1 advantage

Monday, October 22, 2007 3:38 AM
By Scott Priestle


The Columbus Dispatch


BOSTON -- It is a long walk from the batter's box to the dugouts in Fenway Park, and Kenny Lofton made the full, lonely trek with his eyes staring blankly into the stands. It only seemed as if it took four months.

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Dispatch

Indians notebook: Byrd admits using HGH
Pitcher says he took drug to treat pituitary problem
Monday, October 22, 2007 3:32 AM
By Scott Priestle


The Columbus Dispatch




BOSTON -- Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd has talked often of the spring training day 5? years ago when he prayed for help for his struggling career, then stumbled into a new windup that helped rejuvenate him. Sixty-two wins and nearly $30 million in salary later, it appears he had help from a secular source, as well.

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The morning after, its still a tough pill to swallow. We had Boston on the ropes, and just collapsed. They are a better team though, in just about every aspect...

Rotation : Boston > Cleveland (might be debatable, but not during this series)
Bullpen: Boston > Cleveland
Lineup: Boston > Cleveland
Defense: Boston > Cleveland
Coaching: Boston > Cleveland
Experience: Boston > Cleveland

Payroll: Boston > > > > > Cleveland

Must be nice to have all that money to toss around. Still, if someone had told me we would make it to Game 7 of the ALCS at the beginning of the year, I would have been thrilled.
 
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osugrad21;967451; said:
Dispatch

Indians notebook: Byrd admits using HGH
Pitcher says he took drug to treat pituitary problem
Monday, October 22, 2007 3:32 AM
By Scott Priestle


The Columbus Dispatch




BOSTON -- Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd has talked often of the spring training day 5? years ago when he prayed for help for his struggling career, then stumbled into a new windup that helped rejuvenate him. Sixty-two wins and nearly $30 million in salary later, it appears he had help from a secular source, as well.

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No biggie that this guy took HGH before it was banned. How many on this board have taken creatine? In fact, isn't creatine banned by the NCAA now? Just sayin.....
 
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lvbuckeye;967405; said:
nope. Casey Blake ended the series with two errors and a swing at the first pitch with runners at the corners and one out and grounding into a DP. he single handedly killed any rally the Tribe had going, and let Boston gain momentum by giving them base runners instead of outs.

the game was over after 7 innings. the only question was the margin... i turned it off in the eighth. i've seen that movie before.
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Yeah, but he was one of the few hitters in our lineup who actually hit the ball. If you wanna place blame for the blow-up, blame it on C.C., Fausto, Grady and Pronk especially. When your 4 best players decide to disappear and play like shit, it's hard to beat a team as good as the Red Sox. They could play 10 more games and as long as those 4 continued playing like they have over the last 3 games, they would go 0-10.

Still proud of what this team accomplished this year. I don't believe for a second that this will be there only shot. As long as guys stay healthy for 2008, we should be right in the mix again. This time with a little more experience. Great season Tribe, it was fun.

By the way, if you listen real carefully, you can hear Hafner strike out again. :roll1:
 
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As far as the HGH story and Byrd, it's total horse shit. The timing was no coincidence. Sorry if this was explained before, but Senator Mitchell who is in charge of heading the investigation of steriods and other illegal substances in baseball is on the Board of Directors for the Boston Red Sox. Total coincidence? I think not. Byrd handled it like the stand up guy that he is, and I don't think it bothered the team. It is still shitty, and classless by all that were involved in this "leak".
 
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Big Papa;967587; said:
Still proud of what this team accomplished this year. I don't believe for a second that this will be there only shot. As long as guys stay healthy for 2008, we should be right in the mix again. This time with a little more experience. Great season Tribe, it was fun.
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I'm pretty hopeful too. We only had a handful of guys who had ever been in the postseason, which I believe made us tentative when it came down to pressure situations. With any luck, they'll learn from this and be better prepared for that side of things next time around.
 
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