#225---DET @ CLE, 7/25/2012

 

Max Scherzer fanned 8 and walked 4 over seven innings, capped with a five-pitch seventh. The Indians also went down on just six pitches in the ninth, but scored a run on Travis Hafner’s solo homer. Derek Lowe walked the bases loaded to leadoff the fifth, but escaped only allowing one run on Prince Fielder’s sacrifice fly. Johnny Damon and Casey Kotchman teamed up for most of the Indians offense by walking and homering to lead off the third (this probably represents their shining moment in Cleveland uniforms. Probably). But most interesting is the back-to-back throwing errors committed by Asdrubal Cabrera in the second. The first allowed Omar Infante to reach following a leadoff double from Alex Avila. The second came in an attempt to get the force at second and presumably start an inning-ending twin killer.