Texas is usually a streaky team, though if they can get that kind of performance regularly out of Millwood and Padilla pitches up to his potential, they could contend in the West.

Everybody knew the key to the Indians season was the starting rotation. Remember this is one game, and really, the last few runs the Rangers scored were stat boosters. The Indians had more than given up by that point.

1) Are there no baseball fans in NE Ohio who care about making a Tribe blog comment? Weird.

2) Texas just has Cleveland’s number. No matter how bad their record, the Rangers always seem to bash the Tribe. How I wish we had their lineup. And oh, how I wish Texas had played Andruw Jones…a sure 4 outs per game.

3) The Tribe will go nowhere if their starting pitching doesn’t hold opponents to 3 runs in 6 or 7 innnings. This lifeless offense will be fortunate to manufacture 4 runs per game. It’s been proven for month-long stretches over the past two years, yet no major upgrades. Cleveland has wasted two seasons worth of the best pitching it will EVER possess, all because the front office failed to upgrade the offense.