Slugging catcher Andino with his 2nd homer of the year, with 2 on, and Orioles take 4-3 lead.

Then two innings later Nick Markakis with the 3rd homer off Gomez, and it's 5-3.

Is Camden Yards still a HR park or have Tomlin and Gomez just grooved too many pitches?

Grady injured his right knee in the first inning. Left the game. Our OF depth keeps getting shallower.

I missed Grady's injury.

Announcers say he seemed to twist the right knee as he ran to first. Injury report "day to day". But since we have a doubleheader tomorrow and all we have to play in OF are Brantley, Kearns, Carrera and Buck, it could help to add someone. They could always bring Duncan right back up, but that sure leaves us with a miserable bunch of outfielders.

3 shutout innings by former Cavs forward Mark Hendrickson were key to the Orioles opportunity to take the lead.

Manning and Underwood seem to believe Grady is headed for the DL.

Isn't it time to stop counting on him coming back to anything good for any length of time?

Maybe not before the deadline, but the Tribe will have to make a move for a good corner outfielder with some pop

Then hope that Choo comes back to pre-2011 form.

Tribe loads the bases with 1 out in the 7th and fails to score.


5-3, Orioles.

Unless the Tribe rallies, they fall into a 'tie' for first with Detroit.

Tribe would still have a 1 game edge in the 'L' column, the only stat that matters.

The AL Central lead falls closer to .500.

Second straight game of the bullpen collapse.

Yang to the Yin.

I walked by a bit ago and saw we had the bases loaded.

Yet we still have three runs. Guess nothing good happened.

2 runs off Joe Smith first since early May. Let's get rid of the bum.

The Tribe starting pitchers need to get deeper into games. The 'Big Three' need to get close to the 8th inning about every time out. You know the bullpen is likely to be tossing 6+ innings over the other 2 starting spots.

Is Hermann panning out as a flash in the pan?

With Sizemore down, it seems more imperative to bring up Kipnis and hope for some offensive spark.

Tough to lose these final 2 against a really crummy Baltimore nine.

Sizemore going down sure does pressure for moves. Can Kipnis conceivable play anywhere besides 2nd?

AL Central has turned into a 4 team race.

These games coming the rest of the year within the division are going to be real battles.

Tribe must move the dead weight off the roster and worst case go down fighting and making some moves along the way.

Play the kids.

Rocky: Which kids do you want us to play? Do you mean Kipnis instead of Cabrera? Don't know of any other kids we have available to add to the mix.