Today's game 3/14/11

Cleveland 9, A's 8

Got to watch today's game. It was a fun game to watch minus Bailey's injury. Two teams with lots of young talent trading punches and mistakes.

Pitching: Masterson looked like a young, talented pitcher today. Dominated most of the time. But left several pitches up and paid the price. The same could be said for Gomez. Chris Carter goes deep twice verse Gomez. Ouch. Sipp did a no-no. Two outs, one run lead, and you walk a batter to face a guy that has 2 hrs on the day?

Batting: I was very impressed with Hafner. Cleveland let leak Hafner's status. No more firstbase of Travis, his shoulder is too damaged for him to throw the ball. In other words, his shoulder is completely shredded. What is interesting is he still has hitter's eyes and hustle. He is managing to find gap power even with a bum shoulder. Veteran play on the bases by OCab and Everett manufacture two runs.

Point of interest: Belcher says Tomlin is in the lead for the 5 spot.