As you have got to know by now, Tuesday night’s game between the Indians and Diamondbacks was halted in the top of the fourth inning due to rain, with the Tribe up 1-0. After a delay of three hours and forty minutes, the game was finally postponed, as if it never happened at all. The fine start by T.J. House? Gone. Jason Kipnis‘s RBI double? Gone. Nearly four hours of my life spent playing Internet backgammon and waiting for the game to come back on TV? Gone.
The evening wasn’t a total loss for Kipnis, though, as he and Mike Aviles and Lonnie Chisenhall got to play slip and slide on the Progressive Field rain tarp after the game was called. Professional athletes: they’re just like us!
Game #119 has been rescheduled for 4:05 PM on Wednesday, with the regularly-scheduled Game #120 to follow at 7:05 PM, or 20 to 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game, whichever comes later. Fortunately for ticketholders, there seems to be little chance of rain in Cleveland today.
The lineups for the first game:
Diamondbacks
1. Ender Inciarte, CF
2. Didi Gregorius, SS
3. David Peralta, RF
4. Mark Trumbo, DH
5. Miguel Montero, C
6. Aaron Hill, 2B
7. Jake Lamb, 3B
8. Xavier Paul, LF
9. Jordan Pacheco, 1B
Vidal Nuno, P
Indians
1. Jason Kipnis, 2B
2. Mike Aviles, SS
3. Michael Brantley, CF
4. Carlos Santana, 1B
5. Yan Gomes, C
6. Ryan Raburn, DH
7. Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B
8. Zach Walters, LF
9. Tyler Holt, RF
Trevor Bauer, P
oh boy. assuming they start the kid they’d projected to start the 1st game in the second game, we might be in for a long day.
cleveland indians: making nobody lefties look like studs since… uh… forever?
i am excited to see holt and walters getting some ABs, though.
Well waddayaknow… the new kid came through with a walk-off homer. That puts a nice cherry on top of the Asdrubal trade!
Good to see Holt pick up 2 hits as well
The lineup in this second game leaves a lot to be desired. The 2013 Indians felt like a solid team with a defined bench. To see Raburn, Walters, Holt, Perez and Ramirez feels like Triple A. Why are we sitting Gomes, Dickerson, and Chisenhall when we need to win games. I don’t know it just feels like we are not trying hard enough to win the easy games. We should not be playing close games with Arizona…
*I know we have some injuries.
– dickerson is a quad-A type who’s struck out in nearly 1/3 of his career major league at-bats – id rather see some young guys with upside (walters and holt) getting outfield starts over him
– gomes caught the first game of the DH. it’d be extremely atypical to allow the same catcher to catch back to back games of a doubleheader.
– yeah, raburn stinks, i agree there. in theory he can hit lefties better than chisenhall, though he hasn’t really hit anyone this year.
I don’t like Jose Ramirez and its gonna take awhile for me to adjust to not having a power potential guy, like we had in Asdrubal, to a more traditional SS like Ramirez or Lindor will be. I know that we weren’t gonna pay Asdrubal and we got something for him and it won us a game today, but #13 was always a unique threat that made our lineup stand out. You don’t get this with Jose Ramirez at all and I’m not sure why we don’t just have Aviles start at short.
Will you miss his .964 fielding percentage (.974 in his career, league average is .984) which contributed to the Indians being the worst fielding team in the majors? Or his UZR which rates between -7 to -13 over the past 3 years which rates out to below average to poor? Not worth the 15 HRs…
indeed. not to mention cabrera’s “unique threat” at the plate was mostly his mind-boggling inability to take a pitch when there were RISP
The only unique threat Asdrubal brought to the table that last 2 years was his glove… and it was only a threat to our pitching staff