Revised expectations

OK, so the Indians can do no better than 161-1 now. I think we can live with that.

Seriously, Jake Westbrook pitched pretty well today -- just not quite well enough. White Sox starter John Danks and three relievers kept the Tribe bats in check. Danks didn't even allow a hit until the sixth inning, when Casey Blake reached him for a single. I was at work and therefore unable to watch the game very closely, but I saw Blake's hit, and it was no cheapie. And Ryan Garko's RBI double in the seventh was hit pretty hard too. The White Sox outfield gave the Indians the chance to score more runs in that inning too, when Nick Swisher and Jermaine Dye collided going after a fly ball hit by Franklin Gutierrez (as pictured), and the ball dropped, leaving runners on second and third. But the Tribe failed to capitalize. Hey, that's baseball.

So we opened the season taking two of three from the intra-division White Sox. I'll take it.

Next is a three-game series at Oakland, and the A's are probably still suffering from jet lag a little bit, after opening the season a couple of weeks ago in Japan. So that's good timing. At least I hope so.