B & G's #145 9/16/09....Bad Defense And Overall Sloppy Play Costs Tribe Game

B & G's #145 9/16/09 Cleveland Indians (61-83) Vs Minnesota Twins (73-72) At Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota Wednesday September 16Th, 2009 Aaron Laffey (7-5, 3.79) Vs Nick Blackburn (9-11, 4.39) Final Score: Minnesota 7, Cleveland 3 W- Nick Blackburn (10-11) L- Aaron Laffey (7-6) S- Joe Nathan (41) Baseballs: **Michael Cuddyer- Michael went 3-4 at the plate, he hit his 26Th Home Run of the year, he drove in 3 runs, giving him 78 RBIs. Cuddyer is now hitting .274. **Joe Mauer- Joe went 2-3 with a walk, he drove in 2 runs, giving him 87 RBIs. Joe is now hitting .374. **Nick Blackburn- Nick threw 6 1/3 innings, giving up 2 runs (2 earned), he didn't walk anyone, struck out 3 and now has a 4.34 ERA, winning his 10Th game of the year. **Jose Mirales- Jose went 2-3 with a sacrifice fly, he hit 2 doubles and even drove in his 7Th RBI of the year. Jose is hitting .361. **Matt Tolbert- Matt went 2-4 at the plate with a double and is now hitting .206. **Denard Span- Denard went 2-5 at the plate, he drove in his 59Th run of the season and is hitting .307. **Matt Guerrier- Natt threw 2/3 of an inning, without giving up a run, he did give up some hits, but he now has a 2.22 ERA. **Joe Nathan- Joe probably wasn't supposed to get into the game, but he did and he closed it out by striking out the final 2 hitters. He has a 2.25 ERA. **Matt Laporta- Matt finished the day 3-4 and he was the only true offense today. He hit his 6Th Home Run of the season, drove in 3 runs, giving him 17 RBIs and he is hitting .261. **Kelly Shoppach- Kelly finished the game 2-4 and is hitting .214. **Shin-Soo Choo- Choo went 2-4 at the plate with a double and he is hitting .301. **Michael Brantley- Michael went 2-5 at the plate and he is hitting .328. **Luis Valbuena- Luis went 1-3 with a walk and he is hitting .238. **Jess Todd- Jess threw a scoreless 7Th inning and now has a 10.47 ERA. **Rafael Perez- Raffy P threw a scoreless 8Th inning and he has a 7.50 ERA. Goofballs: **Aaron Laffey- Aaron committed his 1st error of the season, he threw 6 innings, giving up 7 runs (6 earned), he walked 3, didn't strike anyone out and lost his 6Th game of the year. Aaron now has a 4.09 ERA. **Indians Defense- Made some boneheaded plays, missing cutoff men, missing plays they should have made that allowed the Twins to move up an extra base. They truly now look like a AAA team, and two weeks ago, that wasn't the case. Shame on them. **Indians Offense- Had some bad at bats when the game was on the line and they had runners on base. 3 runs on 12 hits, 2 walks, 6 strikeouts, and leaving 10 men on base. **Jesse Crain- Jesse didn't retire anyone, he gave up a hit, walked 1 and is lucky he didn't give up a run. He still has a 5.23 ERA. Indians record after 145 games in 2009: 61-84 Indians record after 145 games in 2008: 71-74 Indians record in one run games in 2009: 18-17 Indians Quality Starts in 2009: 64 On Deck: This was such a disastrous series for the Indians. The Twins, without Justin Morneau came out and destroyed us in every way. It's bad when guys like Nick Punto, who is a .232 hitter walks on 5 pitches, then later scores. I just feel that Eric Wedge has finally lost the players now, they are tuning him out, I think some of the players are counting down to the season being over. If that's the case, why should we care anymore? Very frustrating to see, another series tomorrow evening, this time in Oakland to start a 4 game series. Game starts at 10:05 PM, airing on STO with Indians On Deck starting at 9:30 PM. Justin Masterson (4-7, 4.25) will take the mound and be opposed by Clayton Mortensen (1-2, 6.75). The game will air on WTAM 1100-AM, let's go for the series win, at least pretend to care.