Tuesday, November 3, 2020

#167---CLE @ LAA, 5/9/2007




The Indians got two in the first off of Jered Weaver, and Paul Byrd tried to make it hold up and it did for sixth. But in the seventh, Erick Aybar singled on a chopper to the mound and Kendry Morales followed with a two-run blast. In the eighth, Gary Matthews hit the first pitch from Fernando Cabrera to put the Angels up, and K-Rod got the save with a 1-2-3 ninth against the bottom of the Tribe order.

Travis Hafner was involved in a couple plays worth noting on the scoresheet. In the first he reached on catcher’s interference, and in the fifth his grounder was deflected by first baseman Casey Kotchman to Aybar, who threw back to Kotchman for the old 343, with my “d” prefix denoting that the position number that followed deflected the ball. I would now score this play “3-43”.

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