They're Still Not Hitting

In every game, they now have a better than ordinary chance of getting no-hitted. 


Tonight's contest began with fourteen of the quickest, quietest outs you'll ever see. Andy Dirks got the first hit with two out in the fifth. 


At that point, down 1-0 but with Baseball Tracker Radar picking up disaster over the horizon, I turned the game off. Launched Dodgers-White Sox on MLB, and tuned the radio to Indians at Reds. 


I didn't miss anything unexpected. 


It was still pretty much a game (3-1 Pirates) in the sixth, before Bryan Villareal allowed two two-run doubles. 


The cornfield's total of ineffective Tiger middle relievers has increased by one. 


Neal Walker homered with two on in the eighth off Papa Three Run Homer. Final: 10-1 Buccos. 


The world is supposed to end tomorrow, at six in the evening EDT. 


For skipper Leyland and his coaches, the end may come just in time. 


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Should tomorrow really be the end, this year's Indians' heroics will have gone for nothing. 


They were getting no-hitted, by Travis Wood in Cincinnati, but scored four to get even, and got one in the ninth on a bases-loaded drag bunt single by Ezekiel Carrera in his first major league at bat. 


That was pretty cool. What a way to break in. Hit, RBI, game winner on the first pitch you see in The Show. 


If stuff like this keeps happening, this will become an Indians blog. 


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The lack of hitting has produce one positive: Ryan Strikeout is out of the starting lineup, and back on the bench where he belongs. 


Andy Dirks is playing left field. Called up when Magglio Ordonez went on the DL. 


The ankle Maggs hurt last year is still sore. He's 37, coming off an injury, hitting .172 with one RBI ... and you wonder if, and hope it ain't so that, he's played his last game. When he hit .303 last year, and .310 in '09 after a slow start, a certain baseball blogger remarked that Maggs had found the Fountain of Youth, and returned with enough of the precious fluid to last three of four more seasons. The blogger doesn't write stuff like that about just anyone.