The scoreless streak for the starters ended on a 2nd inning throwing error, but the starters still haven’t allowed an earned run in over 50 innings. The side not in the ESPN article is very interesting:
Indians pitchers not named Rafael Betancourt have now gone six consecutive games without an earned run. Betancourt, however, has allowed four in that span.
Going into the season if you asked Indians’ fans the pitcher they had the most confidence in it would undoubtedly be C.C. first (struggled out the gate but looks back to form now) and Betancourt second. There has to be something wrong with Betancourt, he is just not this bad a pitcher. I don’t think there is any doubt that Kobayashi is now the closer, at least until Borowski is back from the DL (my fingers are crossed that Kobayashi pitches unbelievably good for the next week or two so Borowski isn’t given the closer job again).
Aaron Laffey pitched very well for the second straight start; yesterday going seven, striking out six and giving up one unearned run. He has pitched very well in place of Jake Westbrook and if he can keep it up will make things interesting when Westbrook is healthy again.
Are there signs of life for the Indians offense? Garko had his third game in a row with an extra-base hit, Peralta hit his seventh home run, and Hafner got on base three times and has raised his average 12 points in the last week (of course he is still not hitting for any power). Ben Francisco is beginning to make a believer out of me. He had a three hit game yesterday and is now hitting .344/.371/.469 on the season (OK, so the sample size is rather small but at least he isn’t hitting .220 like three quarters of the Indians hitters).
We have won eight of our last ten games (1.5 games up in the Central) and head to
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