2015 Series #4 -|- Indians @ Twins -|- April 17th, 18th, and 19th

[Stark]

2015 Series #4

Cleveland Indians (3-5) vs. Minnesota Twins (2-6)

Live from Target Field in Minneapolis, MN

Pitching Matchups

Game #1 -|- April 17th, 2015 @ 8:10 PM EST

Corey Kluber (0-1); 2.63 ERA; 17 K vs. Mike Pelfrey (0-0); 7.20 ERA; 2 K

Game #2 -|- April 18th, 2015 @ 2:10 PM EST

Danny Salazar (0-0); 0.00 ERA; 0 K vs. Phillip Hughes (0-2); 5.25 ERA; 10 K

Game #3 -|- April 19th, 2015 @ 2:10 PM EST

T.J. House (0-1); 40.50 ERA; 2 K vs. Trevor May (0-1); 8.44 ERA; 4 K

Projected Lineups

Cleveland
Michael Bourn, CF
Jason Kipnis, 2B
Michael Brantley, LF*
Carlos Santana, 1B
Jerry Sands, RF
Brandon Moss, DH
Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B
Roberto Perez, C
Jose Ramirez, SS
*Brantley is day-to-day with back stiffness

Minnesota
Danny Santana, SS
Torii Hunter, RF
Joe Mauer, 1B
Brian Dozier, 2B
Kennys Vargas, DH
Trevor Plouffe, 3B
Oswaldo Arcia, LF
Kurt Suzuki, C
Jordan Schafer, CF

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[BimboColesHair]

Holy shit...no lefties pitching against us. I was expecting them to toss 3 straight at us.

 

[tristan+kyrie=$]

Sweep them and get to 6-5

 

[macbdog]

Sweep them and get to 6-5

Huge series. They have to sweep or at least win two.

 

[DougHeil]

I think this is the start of 10 or so games on the road. If there was ever an important road trip... this is it. We just cannot afford to get down 8-10 games to Detroit so early. Spotting a team like Detroit 5 games in the win column at the start of the season is bad enough.

 

[Otsego Mar]

Anybody ever been to Target Field? Looks like an nice stadium.

 

[SixPACK]

 

[Stark]

Twins are beating the Royals 5-3 in the 8th. That would be their second straight win if they hang on.

Glad to see that for two reasons.

1) Anytime the Royals lose, it's good news for us.
2) I didn't want to face a Twins team on their field that had just been destroyed by Detroit and KC. They're still professionals and you can't keep them down forever. Hopefully since they've won a bit, they'll regress back down for us.

 

[tristan+kyrie=$]

What we need is Salazar to pitch like the Salazar of old and dominate

 

[Otsego Mar]

Over/Under RS in series by Tribe

10

 

[Chris]

Salazar up already?

 

[Otsego Mar]

Salazar up already?

I had the over/under at 30 games. It took 9.

 

[The Oi]

People got the Tribe running up against must win games with six months left in the season.

 

[Stark]

Today's Tribe Lineup:

Michael Bourn, CF
Jason Kipnis, 2B
Michael Brantley, DH
Carlos Santana, 1B
Brandon Moss, RF
David Murphy, LF
Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B
Roberto Perez, C
Jose Ramirez, SS

Corey Kluber

 

[Real Deal]

Let's start a winning streak!