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Morning Rundown: Jo-se-Comes To Save the Day
Written by Nino Colla at The Cleveland Fan May 18, 2012 | 8:06 am
I probably should just start things off by eating some sawdust. I'm sorry Jose Lopez for trashing you. Thanks for helping win this one game. Forgive me.
May 17th, 2012
Seattle Mariners - 5
Cleveland Indians - 6
W: Joe Smith (1-0) L: Brandon League (0-3)
Now that that's out of the way, when it's going right, it's going right. Down 4-0 going into the seventh inning, most would think, eh this is tough to get back from. And it is, but it certainly is not impossible.
It's hard for me to sit here and talk about a game that happened in the afternoon and was not televised. So we'll just have to rely on the magic of video replays and quotes.
Honestly, it came down to that Jose Lopez blast. The Indians had the opportunity in the eighth and had they not done it there, or at least got a few runs off that second and third, two-out situation, then they probably don't do it in the ninth.
"It was great," Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner said. "Lopez had a huge three-run homer for us in a game that we really didn't do much. We had plenty of chances, but we couldn't get the big hit. He got a huge hit for us there in the eighth, and then we just battled and came back."
Chances, in the seventh, Cabrera's RBI single was with two outs and up until that point, the Indians didn't come through in their chances, mostly because they had little and the ones they did have, two outs. In the fourth with the bases loaded, Jose Lopez grounded out with two outs and that represented the best chance before his blast in the eighth inning.
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About Nino
Nino Colla currently attends The University of Akron full-time and commiserates about the Cleveland Indians all the time. If you were to categorize his childhood with the specific era of Indians baseball he grew up with, you would probably call it a rough childhood. Nino grew to love that rough childhood though, even with the likes of Alex Escobar roaming the outfield and Jason Davis throwing 100 mph beach balls.
Nino is originally from Youngstown, Ohio, now lives in Kent and is double-majoring in Communications and minoring in Sport Management at Akron. He's maintained his own blog, The Tribe Daily, since March of 2008 and uses it to compile all relevant information on the Tribe and occasionally photoshop Indians players in an effort to be semi-humorous. He also contributes to the Akron Aeros coverage at Indians Prospect Insider and can be found on twitter @TheTribeDaily.
