Tribe 8 Rays 6

The Cleveland Indians won the second game of their four game series with the Devil Rays tonight at Jacobs Field. Here are my thoughts on the win:

1. CC with another solid start tonight. He wasn't as dominant as he has been in some of his past starts but still against the Rays you don't have to be great to get a win. I think with today's win he really is in a two horse race to be the starter of the All-Star game. The only other viable candidate I believe there to be is Dan Haren who has a much lower ERA but doesn't have the win total that CC has. His next start is slated to be in Detroit and with him pitching against the AL manager in the all star game. So if CC gets to 13 wins I think he is a shoe in to get the nod in the midsummer classic.


2. Rafael Perez was shaky tonight in his relief outing. I really think this has been his only bad outing so hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come. Hopefully, Eric Wedge will get him back in a game soon so he can work through whatever wasn't working tonight.


3. Good to see Pronk hit a bomb tonight and through the last week he has really started to hit the ball very hard which is a sign he is getting back on track.


4. The All Star team will be announced tommorrow and I believe that Victor Martinez, Rafael Betancourt, Joe Borowski, Grady Sizemore, CC Sabathia, Jhonny Peralta and Fausto Carmona deserve consideration. As a first place team we deserve to have at least three on the team.


5. With the win today we gain another game on the Tigers and have a 1.5 game lead in the division.


6. Now this point has nothing to do with tonight's game but could someone tell the Pirate fans are a joke when they organize a walkout and only 100 fans leave the stadium.

The Indians will return to the field tomorrow afternoon at 1:05 as the Cliff Lee faces James Shields.