What is there left to say?
The Cleveland Indians lost again on Sunday, falling to the Yankees by the score of 9-1
The Tribe has now lost 14 of its last 18 games.
The offense struggled … again … some more on Sunday against New York.
The past two days the Indians have faced Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia, who are a combined 150 years old and were pulled off the scrap heap by the Yankees.
In 13.1 innings against the duo, the Tribe managed nine hits and one run, while striking out a dozen times.
Sheldon Ocker of The Beacon Journal assures us that the offensive slump will end. He’s covered the Indians for decades, so if you can’t trust the Socker who can you trust?
But it’s hard to see how the team will get this turned around.
Terry Pluto at The Plain Dealer followed our lead in wondering what the Tribe will do about Fausto Carmona, adding this nugget: The batting average against Carmona with no one on base is .212. With runners on base, .343. With the bases loaded, batters are 5-of-7. Yes, it is a matter of controlling emotions and confidence.
Luckily for the Indians, the Tigers also lost on Sunday, so the team’s remain tied for first place in the Central Division.
Worse-case scenario is the Tribe heads for Detroit after Monday night’s game against the Yankees trailing the Tigers by just one game.
With everything that’s gone wrong for the past few weeks with the Indians, that’s really not all that bad.
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Switching to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jason Lloyd in The Beacon Journal posits that the team may be looking to trade point guard Ramon Sessions if the Cavs, as expected, draft Kyle Irving with the first pick in the upcoming NBA draft.
Sessions’ agent, Chubby Wells (hey, he may just be big boned) hasn’t requested a trade for his client, but that could change after the draft.
The thinking is that Baron Davis will mentor Irving and keeping Sessions as a third point guard is a luxury that won’t work out.
We see one big problem with that scenario: it is highly unlikely that Davis will make it through a full season without getting hurt.
The 32-year-old Davis has only played a full 82-game season once in the past nine years. On average, he makes it through 62 games a year.
So what happens when Davis goes down to an injury this year and there is no one to share the load with Irving?
Yeah, that’s what we thought.
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Finally, our latest on the situation the U.S. Men’s National Team finds itself in at the Gold Cup.
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