I can only consider myself lucky.
At least the boys hit, that is a damn good sign. Unfortunately our 3-8 ace could not find the strike zone long enough (45 of 93 pitches for strikes) to get anybody out. If I saw Fausto Carmona on the street and he was like 8 inches shorter, I would kick him straight in the nuts and ask him what the fudge he thinks that he is doing. Come on man! Is it too much to ask your "best" pitcher to keep the team in the game. Maybe po Fausto got a little too much sand in his vagina. Whatever the excuse is, I do not want to hear it. Someone needs to slap the man in the face and tell him that he needs to pitch to his ability. If he cannot, the Tribe should trade him some bubble gum and a good tarp. Sheesh.
The sad bit is that Carmona looks like Cy friggin' Young compared to Chad Durbin. Can anyone out there muster an argument as to why this man is still sucking the life out of a roster spot? Oh, I know that he is our huge free agent signing, but, for pete's sake, if we cannot eat the $800K then the Indians should just shut down operations now and see if Brad Paisley can play every GD weekend. ERA: 6.67. Awful! WHIP: 1.78. Awful! OBA: .321. Good god man, how do you even accept the ball and go back to the mound? Have some self respect. You want more? Over his last four outings, and remember that includes a duo of scoreless appearances in garbage time, his ERA is 17.18, his OBA is .474 and his WHIP is 3.54. 3.54?! Durbin is putting three and a half guys on base every inning. Oh, and Durbin has now surrendered 20 earned runs this season. The sum total of Chris Perez, Tony Sipp, Joe Smith, Rafael Perez and Vinnie Pestano is 24. I am unsure that release is enough. We might need to shoot him and throw him into a wood chipper.
Not to worry, Mitch Talbot is throwing tomorrow. He is the stopper.
Cheers.
