Indians give Seattle a wedgie
The first-place Cleveland Indians took it to former manager Eric Wedge and the Mariners in Seattle on Friday night, winning 12-3 for their fifth-consecutive victory.
The Tribe continued to show its flexibility, using a 10-run fourth inning – highlighted by Travis Hafner’s three-run homer – to back a solid rebound effort from starting pitcher Carlos Carrasco.
“Travis’ three-run homer was a big dagger in that inning,” manager Manny Acta told The Plain Dealer. “That inning pretty much summed up the game for us. It was a huge inning.”
The Indians pounded out 17 hits one day after only getting three against Boston.
Longball, smallball, everything the Indians are doing is currently working. Who doesn’t love Mannyball right about now?
Just like Fausto Carmona on Thursday against Boston, Carrasco erased the memories of his first start by working six innings of one run, four-hit ball.
“Carrasco basically set the tone for us,” manager Manny Acta said in published reports. “He threw some zeros out there and gave us an opportunity to come up in the fourth inning and do what we did. We put together a lot of good at-bats there.”
Tribe pitchers have now only given up 11 earned runs in their last 52 innings of work – good for a 1.90 ERA.
We have no idea how long this will continue, we’re just along for the ride.
Justin Masterson, who started the streak last Sunday, gets his turn to keep it going tonight.
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Found this one on Uni Watch and we have to admit, we were intrigued.
While we’re not fond of the font choice, we like the idea of bringing red back as an alternate jersey color rather than the current blue.
What really caught our attention was using Tribe rather than Indians on the jersey front. For as long as we can remember everyone has referred to the Indians as the Tribe, so why not embrace that as part of a unique uniform set?
And the team has certainly made it synonymous with the team over the years through marketing slogans like “Tribe Time” and “Are you in the Tribe?”
While we certainly don’t want to see Chief Wahoo go anywhere, using Tribe on an alternate uniform, at the very least, has a lot of potential.
If nothing else, it sure beats a giant script I.
Red Right 88 
