Tribe 5 A's 2

The Cleveland Indians returned home and back to their winning ways with a 5-2 win at Jacobs Field. Here are my thoughts on the win:

1. CC started off very shaky in the second inning but after that he really seemed to lock in mentally and physically. It was nice to see him finally have a good outing against Oakland seeing that they have had great success against him in the pass. I think this win makes him a clear lock for the all star game. If he makes it to the all star break at top of the league in wins I think you will see him get the start in the midsummer classic, especially with a manager from the AL Central at the helm of the American League team.


2. I think the biggest thing to come from the win was that Pronk finally hit a homer and really seemed to swing the bat with confidence and hit the ball hard tonight. Hopefully this can be the springboard for him to get back into a groove.


3. I think a thing that has really hurt us in this month is the amount of strikeouts Grady Sizemore has gotten. He now leads the league in that category and if we want to be a playoff team this needs to improve. Now I know Grady is going to strikeout some but we need him to get on base more than he has this month.


4. I liked the decision of letting CC go out and finish the game tonight in the 9th inning. A lot of other pitchers would have been content on letting another pitcher finish the game out. But with CC he has a mindset that he is going to pitch 9 innings every night out.


5. The win was big in that we got back to a game of Detroit and still maintain a 3 game lead over Seattle in the Wildcard standings.

The Tribe will get back at it on Tuesday night with Cliff Lee facing Dan Haren at 7:05