Indians Tidbits (2007 Season)

[LitlBuck]

Question

If Cleveland and Boston should tie with the best records who would have the home-field advantage throughout the playoffs and who would determine if the 5 game series with start on Wednesday or Thursday? I know that if Cleveland wins one more game they secure home-field advantage for the five games but after that I cannot find this information any place.

 

[PrincessPeach]

Two games. No need to panic.

Yes... there is need to panic! The sky is falling! Aaaaahhhh! Quick... everyone to the ledge!!!

 

[AKAK]

Yes... there is need to panic! The sky is falling! Aaaaahhhh! Quick... everyone to the ledge!!!

No.... I'm going to jump.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

If Cleveland and Boston should tie with the best records who would have the home-field advantage throughout the playoffs and who would determine if the 5 game series with start on Wednesday or Thursday? I know that if Cleveland wins one more game they secure home-field advantage for the five games but after that I cannot find this information any place.

I am assuming that if we are tied for the best record the tie breaker would be head to head record vs Boston...we are 2-5 vs Boston.

CPD

Indians snooze and lose

Mariners tee off, kiss Tribe goodbye
Friday, September 28, 2007 Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Seattle- There are only three games of shadow dancing left for the Indians. Then, the real music, the music of October, begins.
Until then, the Indians must stay awake and pay attention.
That didn't do a good job of that Thursday night in a 4-2 loss to Seattle and right-hander Cha Seung Baek at Safeco Field. Baek, winless in three starts against the Indians in his career, held them to one run in six innings.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

CPD

Cleveland Indians' defeats are far from a scream


Friday, September 28, 2007 Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Seattle- Joe Borowski's wife, Tatum, recently made a suggestion to the Indians' closer.
"She told me don't curse on TV," said Borowski. "She told me it's easy to read my lips."
When things go bad for a closer, it's almost always a lose-and-go-home situation. Closers have been known to emphasize such dramatic turns with dramatic language.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

CPD

Cleveland Indians-Seattle Mariners series takes a long, strange course of action


Friday, September 28, 2007

Seattle- The Indians and Mariners crammed a lot of baseball into the first three games of this series. Try playing 31 innings in 27 hours and 30 minutes.
It started Tuesday night with a 12-inning game won by the Indians and stretched into Wednesday's twi- night doubleheader at Safeco Field. The Indians won the opener, 12-4, and Seattle won the nightcap, 3-2, in 10 innings.
"It seems whenever we've played Seattle this year there's been a full moon," said manager Eric Wedge.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

Tribe brass: No worries with closer
Friday, September 28, 2007
BY Andy Call
Repository sports writer

SEATTLE While fans chew their fingernails, tap their feet and develop nervous tics, no one around the Indians clubhouse seems at all worried about Joe Borowski.

Cleveland's veteran closer suffered blown saves on consecutive days Tuesday and Wednesday in Seattle. Both Manager Eric Wedge and pitching coach Carl Willis said Thursday they believe Borowski will be just fine.

"He says he feels great," Willis said. "His velocity was normal. He just wasn't getting ahead in the count. Nobody likes to see what's happened, but it's a fact of life - it does."

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

MorningJournal

Sabathia defined 'ace' on Sept. 8
Jim Ingraham, Morning Journal Staff
09/28/2007

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: Part three of Jim Ingraham's five-part series on the biggest moments of the Tribe's season. Today: No. 2: C.C. Sabathia's 6-1 win over the Angels, in Anaheim, on Sept. 8.)


BIG moments require big men. For the Indians, there was a collision between both on Sept. 8 in Anaheim, Calif.

On that date, the Indians played the Angels in Anaheim. It was game three of a four-game series. The Indians had lost the first two games of the series. Their scheduled starter in the fourth game was rookie Aaron Laffey.

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[OH10]

....Jose Valverde who leads the MLB in saves has 7 blown saves.

It would be hard for him to lead the league in blown saves when JB has 8.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

It would be hard for him to lead the league in blown saves when JB has 8.

Not sure what the point is.....my point was that the best closer as far as saves in MLB only has one less than Joe.......thus let's not make his recent struggles into something more than what they are. His problem is that he only gets the first guy out about 60% of the time.....

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Victory gives Indians home-field advantage

Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:51 AM
By Scott Priestle


The Columbus Dispatch

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Cleveland Indians' Hangovers and Jet Lag Tour rolled into town around 6 a.m. yesterday. Some players were still groggy when they reached the ballpark in the late afternoon, and it showed in the early innings last night. Eventually, they eked out a 5-3 win over the host Royals.

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[Brutus1]

Not sure what the point is.....my point was that the best closer as far as saves in MLB only has one less than Joe.......thus let's not make his recent struggles into something more than what they are. His problem is that he only gets the first guy out about 60% of the time.....

Another ugly save last night. Why the hell can't that turd have a 1 2 3 ninth? If I'm Wedge, I give him a shot at the first save, but if the first batter gets on for the Yankees, I'm having the bully ready to go. If it's a tight game and CC is throwing well, then he's going all the way.

Giving up hits, I can live with but as a closer, you just can't walk guys.

 

[NFBuck]

Starting pitching will determine how far we advance. Bottom line is that Blowowski is one of the worst closers in MLB. Yeah he racked up saves, but if he has to face the meat of any of those teams orders in the 9th, we're toast.

 

[mooktarr]

I refuse to be anything but happy about the Indians. We are in the PLAYOFFS Baby!. What can be better than that, I ask you? I do not care how hey win, ugly or otherwise just as long as they win. That is what makes it so exciting to be a tribe fan.
We are going to win it all this year, Yeah Baby!

 

[NFBuck]

Fuck. Home field would have been big.