Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Today's game: 3/15/11

Cleveland 9, Brewers 7

Got to see today's game.

Lots of good things to report.

-Mitch Talbot struggled out of the gate. His pitches were up in zone. But he kept battling, and ended his 5 innings by retiring 7 in a row.

-A big reason that Talbot was able to get through his struggles only giving up one run was our defense. Santana made a perfect through to catch Council trying to steal. Brantley hustled to a ball in the gap and threw to ACab. The throw was to thirdbase side of the bag and ACab made a nice catch and tag to get Fielder trying to stretch his hit to a double.

-Cleveland scores on 3 2-run homers by Santana, LaPorta, and Chad Huffman. Santana is having a great day at the plate with a single, double and the homer.

-Chris Perez gave up a double to Council but struck out the side, including strikeouts of Weeks and Fielder.

-After falling behind, Cleveland comes back against Milwaukee's closer. Axeford, the Brewer's closer, didn't record an out and struggle to find the strike zone.

The Bad:

Anthony Reyes coming back from Tommy John surgery was really struggling to find the strike zone. At one point, he missed on 7 straight pitches and 9 of 10. Jensen Lewis comes in and can't find the plate. He ends up giving up 2 3-run homers.

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