The Indians battered Carl Pavano for seven runs in 3 2/3 innings, with a Lonnie Chisenhall two-run shot and a Jason Kipnis grand slam as the big blows. This happened to be the last really good start of Derek Lowe’s career – he had four subsequent starts that officially qualified as “quality starts”, but they were all of the 6 IP/3 R variety (well, one was 6.2/3). He struck out just two and walked one, pitching to contact. After this game he had a 3.06 ERA which would balloon to 5.52 by July 31, after which he was traded to the Yankees and worked exclusively out of the bullpen for the rest of the season and all of 2013.
Leading off the fifth, Anthony Swarzak tagged the bag to record an unassisted putout of Casey Kotchman – not a particularly rare play, but one worth noting on a scorekeeping blog when it pops up organically.
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