Borowski

I have more to come about the first game in what might be the most important week of baseball in April for the Indians in some time, but I just wanted to put the following here quickly.

On May 9th, 2006 in Kansas City, Danny Graves relieved Jason Johnson with no out and two men on. The Indians led 6-4 at the time. Graves gave up a homer to John Buck, got a hard ground out from Esteban German, and gave up a roped double to Mark Grudzielanek, and was releived by Scott Sauerbeck.

As Graves walked off the mound that day, I got the feeling that he had thrown his last pitch in the major leagues. I had the same feeling last night.


Afternoon update: Borowski has been placed on the disabled list with a "right triceps strain" which I'm pretty sure is something they came up with to get him off the roster for a while until the real problem is determined and, if possible, fixed. Tom Mastny got the call up.

I really hope that Rafy Betancourt doesn't move into the closer's role. No one else on this team could have done what he did to Ortiz and Ramirez last night.