Jensen Lewis Recalled

Well, surprise surprise, guess who is taking Jake Westbrook’s spot on the roster.

Obviously, when they need another start from a starter, Jeremy Sowers would be brought up to make it, but for now the Indians made a move to bring up another arm for the pen. Considering they are starting a reliever in Tom Mastny tonight, they will need all the arms they can get.

Jensen Lewis will be called upon to take over the spot, and I’m not sure if he will be available to pitch tonight. They are in Texas, he was in Buffalo, so who knows if they called him last night or today. We should find out soon enough. Either way after today, the pen could get worn out, so we need some fresh arms.

This is a surprise considering they sent him down to fix his velocity. I’m not aware if he made any appearances, I’m sure he did, but right now I can’t find any statistics of his time with the Bisons.

I can’t imagine they called him up just to call him back down later though. I’m going to assume this was because he was ready or close to ready. They had options like Brian Slocum with options left.

Updated: Westbrook back to DL; Mastny To Start

Jake Westbrook has more problems.

Last week after his start he had some issues with his elbow. They thought he might be better for his start today, but catch yesterday didn’t go so well.

So Westbrook is headed back to the DL.

I previously said Brian Slocum would start. That is however not true. According to the Plain Dealer, Tom Mastny will get the start. He probably can’t go long, so this is just a game that will be pitched by the bullpen.

Hey look at the offense

I’ll see what I can muster up here… If you watched the Penguins game tonight, you know exactly what I mean.

Offense Okay?: It’s pretty useless to talk about Aaron Laffey.. He pitched five innings and gave up 8 runs. His ERA jumped from the 1 range to the 3 range in just one start.

Oh well.. Texas was just hitting, and so was the Tribe, THANKFULLY.

Grady was the only one without a hit, the rest of the lineup saw everyone but Choo and Victor get at least two hits(and Choo had THREE walks). Everyone was on base at least two times in the game, and remarkably only four different people did the run producing.

The main guy was Casey Blake, of course.

He had two run home runs in the second and third inning, and then a three run double in the fourth. The guy just hits on the road, 27 RBI on the road, compared to 9 at home.

What’s scary is we’ve played way more games at home than we have the road.

Ben Francisco had himself a game, forcing in a run with a walk, and also having the big two run home run in the 7th to break the 8-8 tie.

That 8-8 tie came after Marlon Byrd hit a grand slam off Laffey in the 5th.

Dellucci also went yard to make it a 12-9 game, at the time it was huge cause the Rangers just scored.

Joe Borowski didn’t get a save, but he probably was the most painless pitcher of the night. He came in and got the Rangers on 10 pitches. Bup Bup Boooo..

Tomorrow, well later today.. Vincente Padilla has been scratched due to family issues at home, so Jake Westbrook is taking on youngster A.J. Murray. Murray has started one game this year for the Rangers and he gave up 2 ER.

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