After watching the Angels erase a 4-0 deficit with a five-run fifth inning, the Indians stormed back for a 9-5 victory Tuesday night in a game that was twice delayed by rain.
The Indians' Shelley Duncan connects for a home run in the fourth inning of the Tribe's 9-5 win over the Angels on Tuesday at Progressive Field. CLEVELAND -- The Indians' offense hasn't received a lot of love this season, but it might receive flowers from Jack Hannahan and Zach McAllister after it came to their rescue on a wet Tuesday night at Progressive Field.
After watching Hannahan throw a potential inning-ending double play grounder into right field and McAllister squander a 4-0 lead in the fifth inning, the offense reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the inning on the way to a 9-5 victory over the Angels in a game twice delayed by rain.
"These guys don't quit and they don't scare," manager Manny Acta said. "They learned a lot from last season. They learned this is a long year and you just have to keep piling up wins."
It was only the Tribe's fourth win in its past 11 games. The red-hot Angels suffered just their 11th loss in their past 38 games.
Dan Haren, who along with Jered Weaver usually possesses the Indians' soul in Cleveland, allowed four runs in the first four innings. After the game he complained of a sore back and could be placed on the disabled list.
Shin-Soo Choo started the game with a triple and scored on Jason Kipnis' single. The Tribe made it 3-0 with two runs in the second on Shelley Duncan's sacrifice fly and Hannahan's double. In the fourth, it appeared to be a rout as Duncan homered to left. It was his seventh of the season and third in the past four games.
McAllister (3-1, 3.93) cruised through the first four innings, holding the Angels to two hits. The cruising ended in the fifth.
Alberto Callaspo and Howie Kendrick opened with consecutive singles. After Erick Aybar lined out to Hannahan, catcher John Hester followed with a grounder to third. Hannahan fired the ball into right field as Callaspo scored, Kendrick went to third and Hester to second on the error.
Rookie Mike Trout, down in the count 0-2, worked his way back to 3-2 before hitting a three-run homer just inside the left-field foul pole to tie the score, 4-4. It was Trout's 10th homer in 59 games.
McAllister retired Torii Hunter on a fly ball to right, but Albert Pujols put the Angels in front with a long homer into the bleachers in left-center field. Tuesday night's homer was his 13th of the season and fourth in Cleveland.
"Nice job by McAllister," Acta said. "He didn't get scared out of the strike zone. It was a learning experience for him [against Trout]. With first base open, you don't want to give up a homer there on you're third best pitch."
McAllister said he threw the changeup with one thought.
"I figured if he hit it, he wouldn't hit it fair. He hit it fair and he hit it out," McAllister said.
Choo opened the fifth with a double off Haren. Asdrubal Cabrera popped out to short and Haren intentionally walked Kipnis to get to Jose Lopez. With storm clouds rolling over the ballpark, and a light rain falling, Lopez doubled down the left-field line to make it 5-5 as Kipnis stopped at third.
Hisanori Takahashi relieved. Michael Brantley sent a hard shot to Pujols at first. Pujols stepped on the bag, but his throw home to Hester was off line as Kipnis and Lopez scored for a 7-5 lead. Takahashi tagged Lopez at the plate, but dropped the ball.
"It was really nice to see us bounce back and pick up Jack and McAllister," Acta said. "Jack has saved so many runs for us over the last two years."
A refocused McAllister made it through the sixth. He allowed five runs, three earned, on eight hits. He struck out five and didn't walk a batter.
"Getting those runs in the fifth was huge for us," McAllister said. "I just wanted to go out and put up another zero."
Haren (6-8, 4.86) allowed seven runs, six earned, on nine hits in 41/3 innings. He struck out one and walked one on 69 pitches.
He entered with a 3-0 record and a 1.80 ERA in five starts at Progressive Field. In Haren's first five starts, he allowed seven earned runs in 35 innings.
Weaver threw seven scoreless innings Monday night to beat the Tribe, 3-0. He's 5-0 with a 1.52 ERA in eight starts at Progressive Field.
The Indians stretched the lead to 8-5 in the seventh on Brantley's RBI ground out.
Vinnie Pestano started the eighth by retiring Pujols before heavy rain halted the game at 9:20 p.m. The game was delayed 44 minutes, but Pestano returned to close out the eighth.
The Indians made it 9-5 in the eighth as Casey Kotchman doubled and scored on Aaron Cunningham's single. With one out in the ninth, and Esmil Rogers on the mound, the game was stopped again, at 10:24.
The game resumed at 11:21 with Rogers still on the mound. Aybar doubled before Rogers got the next two batters. The two rain delays lasted a total of 1 hour and 41 minutes.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2012/07/cleveland_indians_storm_back_t.html
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