It’s indicative of how poorly the Indians were doing earlier in the season that we’re all celebrating today because they’re one game over .500 and they won two in a row on the road for the first time in, like, ever (okay, the first time this season). They are firmly in 2nd place in the AL Central, 3.0 games behind Detroit. Tonight is the final in the four-game series against the Rangers. Lefty T.J. House (0-1, 3.79) takes the mound against right-handed Nick Martinez (1-2, 3.22). House went 5.2 innings in the Indians’ 5-3 win against Boston on June 3, giving up 6 hits, 2 earned runs, 2 walks, and striking out 4.
Lonnie Chisenhall is hitting .365, which is the highest in major league baseball among players with at least 150 plate appearances. He needs 3.1 plate appearances per team game to qualify for league leader status; he has 2.79. He’s in the 5-spot tonight. This is a personal plea to Terry Francona to please move Chisenhall up a bit more in the batting order so he can possibly get more plate appearances. Barring that, I request that the Indians have another big hit-around game so Lonnie can go 5-5 again.
Indians’ lineup:
Bourn, CF
Cabrera, SS
Brantley, LF
Kipnis, 2B
Chisenhall, 3B
Santana, 1B
Murphy, RF
Giambi, DH
Kottaras, C
Rangers’ lineup:
Robertson, CF
Andrus, SS
Choo, LF
Beltre, 3B
Rios, RF
Murphy, 1B
Choice, DH
Chirinos, C
Sardinas, 2B
I am gladly eating crow concerning Lonnie Chisenhall. I had zero optimism for him going into this season, and in general concerning him in an Indians uniform. I do not know what he did to get the proverbial lightbulb to turn on, but man, did it work!
Addendum: Offensively, of course. Defensively Chiz has been a dumpster fire… haha!
10 outs total in this game so far, just hit 100 pitches. We’re in for a long night in old Texas tonight. I’m glad the Indians have the cushion they do have right now.
Kottaras is 3 for 5 with 3 hrs this year.
Well the lineup is definitely going off tonight, and the Chiz kid is 2-2 so far.
Digging the reverse jinx.
Ha! and the third hit is a homer.
A game like this every now and then helps keep the blood pressure down.
Chiz gotta love it
Man, what a night for Lonnie Chisenhall! What a season. There’s a lot of people that need to eat some serious crow w this guy; not that I touted him……I just always say w baseball, give it time. Moreover, I just always believe. 10-17 w 13 rbis in this series for LDC. Absolutely crazy
There was one person on here who continually praised Chisenhall last offseason and was predicting good things for him (I can’t remember who – gvl steve maybe?)… The thing is, I have no idea how anyone could have predicted this for him. He was helpless vs lefties, he had no plate discipline or ability to draw walks… This is just fantastic, the Tribe needed to get lucky or have a player seemingly come out of nowhere like he has.
It def wasn’t me, but I look at it this way; the guy was pegged as a great player early and did well at the other levels. It’s the same game and he knows how to play the game. It’s all about adjusting to the bigs. Either way, I don’t know if anyone could’ve predicted this. You’re right though, I think back to how lost he used to look at the plate and am amazed. Crazy game we love huh?
He didn’t have enough bats against lefties, I posted earlier this year just before they started playing him against lefties back when he had 2 ABs against them after a month and a half.
Aka called it.
chiz is blowin it up
Oh, and Susan?
Request granted, big time! 🙂
just read the preview, good job carnac!
I’m so glad u mentioned this because otherwise I might’ve missed it.
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Better late than never bro. Lol. At least we are early on the tribe bandwagon!
Holy shit I just read Susan’s message and realized that LDC actually is 5-5 at the dish.
well jeremy, you can join Sean Porter and I in the very impressed club.
Per hammy – rangers 7 LDC 9 lol
hahaha and he had a beautiful tommy hams no doubt homerun call, vintage. a swing and a drive…
I never doubted Chisenhall! Just needed the major league at-bats!
And to top it off, Murphy has an absolute gem in the field. What a play!