On Wednesday Afternoon, the Cleveland Indians won a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers! This is kind of a novel concept recently, so it’s worth celebrating. Also worth celebrating is the fact that the Indians “soak it in gasoline and light it on fire” bullpen crew allowed 0 hits and 0 runs and walked 0 batters!
…in 0 innings.
But that means Cookie Carrasco threw a complete game, and he was incredible. So, let’s go over what the offense did and break down Cookie’s Complete Game inning-by-inning.
The offense did what they have done all season: score via the long ball. Today Tyler Naquin(!) hit a 3-run home run in the 4th that put the Indians up for good, and Francisco Lindor added the final insurance run in the top of the 7th to close the scoring for the Ind–
What?
Roberto Perez Triples (1) on a ground ball to Right Fielder Domingo Santana
Carlos Carrasco singles on a sharp ground ball to left fielder Christian Yellich. Roberto Perez scores.
Raise your hand if you ever had THAT sequence happening in a real major league baseball game. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Let’s see if I can find visual video evidence of this happening:
Well I’ll be damned. Actually, MLB.com has no video evidence (unless I dig into the game video, which I may well do later, because this happened at around 5am and I fell asleep at 4am) of the Roberto Perez triple, so for now I will assume it was a bizarre Angels-in-the-Outfield scenario where Perez was picked up off his plodding cleats and carried around the bases.
Anyway, let’s look at Cookie’s night inning-by-inning and give it a cookie rating.
First Inning: 1H, 1K, 0R, 12P
Lorenzo Cain singled to open the game, but the rest of the batters went down without much drama. Just a solid, boring inning with good efficiency.
First inning rating:
Sugar Cookie
Second Inning: 1H, 1K, 0R, 10P
Once again, one hit in the inning led to nothing except a double play, which is exciting. Still a solid, boring inning, but with a little bit more flair.
Second inning rating:
Funfetti Sugar Cookie
Third Inning: 0H, 3K, 0R, 16P
An absolutely delicious inning from Cookie. Three efficient strikeouts (the first two on 8 combined pitches).
Third inning rating:
Homemade Chocolate Chip
Fourth Inning: 0H, 3K, 0R, 10P
An absolutely disgusting inning from Cookie, just one pitch away from an immaculate inning. You know what? That was so good, I’m going in for one more.
Fourth Inning Rating:
Homemade Chocolate Chip
Fifth Inning: 0H, 2K, 0R, 13P
Not quite the delicious perfection of the previous two innings, but still an amazing inning. We’re going to have to step away from the Chocolate Chip cookies and move elsewhere in the Cookie Pantheon (is that a thing? It should be a thing).
Fifth Inning Rating:
Snickerdoodles
Sixth Inning: 0H, 1K, 0R, 8P
Had to work around a walk in this inning (Oswaldo Arcia on four pitches), but a quick strikeout and a first-pitch GIDP made this inning go down easily and left a good taste in our mouths.
Sixth Inning Rating:
Thin Mints
Seventh Inning: 2H, 2K, 1R, 21P
The lone “clunker” inning in a night of delicious treats. You thought it was going to be a complete-game shutout, but instead… raisins.
Seventh Inning Rating:
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Eighth Inning: 0H, 0K, 0R, 6P
Quick, efficient, delicious, and does the job. Only one choice for this one.
Eighth Inning Rating:
Oreos
Ninth Inning: 1H, 1K, 1R, 21P
Maybe another clunker of an inning, but… it doesn’t matter to me!
Ninth Inning Rating:
C is for Complete Game, and that’s good enough for me!
What a game for Cookie. And what a fun recap to write.
Until next time…