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Every Tribe batter has been on base tonight except Michael Brantley.

Tiger announcers note Asdrubal is #1 with home runs in the AL among short stops....and Peralta is #2.

They further declare both should be locks for the All Star game.

Choo stops at base two after the single and error E-7

We're doing great 5 to 9 in tonight's line up

Al Alburquerque in for Detroit.

He has a boo boo on his elbow and the home plate ump makes him remove the large white bandage.

Wild pitch advances Choo. I think it hit the backstop on the fly.

Infield in as Laporta bats with one out and Choo on 3rd in the 5-4 7th

LaPorta puts the ball in play well enough in the infield for Choo to scoot home without a throw.

6-4 us

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:Al Alburquerque in for Detroit.

He has a boo boo on his elbow and the home plate ump makes him remove the large white bandage.

Cleveland announcers reminiscing about Omar and Arthur Rhodes' earrings.

RBI!

I still remember Joe Adcock playing the game under protest when the Oakland Athletics and their pitchers were all wearing white shoes.

Edit: Heck, I guess in that year it was the Kansas City Athletics.

I'll have to double check that.

When we were kids, there seemed to be a lot of games "played under protest." Don't hear that very often these days!

Could a pitcher wearing white shoes distract a batter? Indians manager Joe Adcock thought so when he protested the 1967 season opener against the A's. The Athletics were not wearing a baseball shaped pattern any part of their uniform which is a violation of rule 1.11(e), but they were wearing white shoes, one of owner Oberlin Finley's innovations.

Adcock thought the white shoes were deceptive and confused the hitter. He protested the game as men as A'S pitcher Jim Nash threw the first pitch of the contest to Vic Davalillo. But American League president Joe Cronin rejected the protest.

I really can't remember any "protest" game that was ever changed.

Now in Little League days I saw it often. One team manager might not have kept track of the pitcher's innings in a week while the opposing manager had clocked the opponent. If a pitcher exceeded his innings and the team won, it could be overturned.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZCNviz ... es&f=false

Here's a link to an excerpt of Russell Schneider's book and the Adcock protest.

Tales From The Tribe Dugout


Looks like a good read. Much of the book can be read free at the above link.