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slotdirt · #1 08-10-2011, 07:15 AM

Tiggers have lost like 14 straight in Cleveland. The odds are in your favor.

horseofcourse · #2 08-10-2011, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by slotdirt

Tiggers have lost like 14 straight in Cleveland. The odds are in your favor.

YOu know that has to end sometime. I was counting on a Tribe win last night as it was the only starting pitching matchup I liked this series, unfortunately the rain killed both starters...and both bullpens are pretty taxed tonight. I was pretty much counting on losses for O-Bald-O and against Verlander, I don't care how much better Carmona has been pitching!

slotdirt · #3 08-10-2011, 09:41 AM

Verlander is like 13-2 with a sub-2.00 ERA against AL Central opponents the last couple of seasons.

I do enjoy how backloaded the Indians-Tigers schedule is - 11 more of these things to go in the last 49 games.

horseofcourse · #4 08-10-2011, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by slotdirt

Verlander is like 13-2 with a sub-2.00 ERA against AL Central opponents the last couple of seasons.

I do enjoy how backloaded the Indians-Tigers schedule is - 11 more of these things to go in the last 49 games.

Verlander toyed with them last meeting in Detroit. I do remember in '07 we hit him hard a few times in that race. He's a heckuva lot better now though, not that he wasn't still good back then.

horseofcourse · #5 08-10-2011, 10:06 AM

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Verlander toyed with them last meeting in Detroit. I do remember in '07 we hit him hard a few times in that race. He's a heckuva lot better now though, not that he wasn't still good back then.

Yeah, 2 hit shutout striking out 12 in June!! Went back and looked at 2007 game log and we went 4-1 against him. We scored 7 against him 3 times and hit 6 homers off him. times change, don't they!!

horseofcourse · #6 08-10-2011, 10:29 AM

Here you go clyde. Walkoff hit by pitches in Cleveland Indian history...

8/9/2011 Kosuke Fukudome
6/11/1991 Alex Cole (good lord, remember when we moved the fences way back at the dump for that guy!!)...he turned out to be a poor man's Miguel Dilone.
6/22/1975 Rico Carty

...that's it. one more for the historical record.

clyde · #7 08-10-2011, 11:23 AM