A Quest Called Tribe

OOOOOH!  A win!  Unfortunately, my crappy off-brand cable was out beginning in the 4th inning, so I saw very little.  I will still tell you what I loved.  How about a list today?

- Justin Masterson's 4 strikeout second inning.  The man is filthy.
- Finally, a little bit of GD luck!  Both Eric Bedard's failure to cover first on Matt LaPorta's 2nd inning RBI "single" and Carlos Santana's rib-eye blooper in the 3rd were gifts that that baseball gods have been awfully stringy with lately.
- How about that 4-9?  12-for-26 (.462) with 6 RBI.  Strange how that equals a win, huh?  We will go back to analyzing 5-8 tomorrow, assuming the medical reports on Michael Brantley are accurate.
- All of these facts about Jason Kipnis' home run binge, which, sadly, ended tonight.  Grazie to Elias.

• Kipnis is the first player in major-league history to homer in four consecutive games within two weeks of his debut.
• Kipnis is the first Indians second baseman in franchise history to homer in four straight games.
• Kipnis' fourth homer in as many games came in his 10th career game. The last player to do that was Minnesota's Graig Nettles, who homered in four straight games within his first 10 big-league games of his career.

All of that and Luis Medina's legacy remains safe. ;-j

Here's to Ubaldo Jimenez pitching a no-no in his Tribe debut.

Cheers.

P.s. Word on the street (literally this time) is that Mr Perfect, Justin Germano, has signed a big fat contract to play in Taiwan.  It is very possible that I am breaking this story on all of the inter-web.