I almost forgot what baseball was like!  I’m excited to be back, and to be going to the Indians game tonight – where Trevor Bauer will be taking on Justin Verlander.  You know who else is back (in the lineup)?  Michael Brantley.  Hopefully they can get a bit more going offensively, as compared to last night against Rick Porcello.

Because I am an adult, I couldn’t resist dragging stuffed cows with me on my journeys.  I also couldn’t resist a cows-Cleveland Indians mashup photo on my vacation:

Bonjour!

Bonjour!

 

Back to more normal things, here are tonight’s lineups:

Indians:

Michael Bourn, CF

Asdrubal Cabrera, SS

Michael Brantley, LF

Jason Kipnis, 2B

Carlos Santana, 1B

Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B

Nick Swisher, DH

David Murphy, RF

Yan Gomes, C

 

Tigers:

Ian Kinsler, 2B

Austin Jackson, CF

Miguel Cabrera, 1B

Victor Martinez, DH

J.D. Martinez, RF

Nick Castellanos, 3B

Alex Avila, C

Eugenio Suarez, SS

Rajai Davis, LF 

12 Comments

  • Ghost of Joel Skinner says:

    Bourn and Swisher are killing this team.

    This FO is awful – and when they try to get involved…they make things worse. Best thing that could happen in the offseason is for Paul Dolan to sell the team.

  • SeattleStu says:

    has anyone ever crunched the #s on what VMart has done against us since he left?….feels like .500 w/ a ton of production…uggh.

    • Jon cindia says:

      Agreed I’m curious my self

    • The Doctor says:

      i’m convinced martinez is juicing… a career high of 25 homers and he’s already got 19 with several games to go before the break. a sudden power surge at age 35 seems suspicious.

  • Stephanie Liscio says:

    Going into tonight, lifetime against the Indians Martinez is .366/.433/.602.

  • Nick says:

    Ugh, bats asleep again tonight…Swisher looks lost, Bauer looked fine but again leaving balls up in the zone…hope they put something together…

  • Kevin says:

    Extras i suppose

  • Nick says:

    MICHAEL BOURN COMES UP HUUUUUGE!! Actually, Murph and Gomer did too. Those were 3 quality AB’s. Let’s get this in extras!!! ROLL TRIBE!

  • tom jackson says:

    Welcome back, Steph. I missed you and your lively comments. Too bad you came back into a Tiger drubbing.

  • The Doctor says:

    nathan gassed and on the ropes, of course that dense [insert expletive here] cabrera comes out swinging at the first pitch. the coaching staff really needs to get him on a program where he is not allowed to swing at the first pitch of the at-bat. his impatience drives me absolutely crazy.