Cleveland Indians beat New York Yankees, will go to American League Championship  Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

I don't usually talk sports, but this is the playoffs of America's favorite past-time, guys and gals!

The Cleveland Indians beat the New York Yankees tonight in Game 4 of the Indians vs. Yankees series, officially beating out the Yankees for the American League Championship series against the Boston Rod Sox.  The Sox swept Los Angeles, winning all three of their games against the L.A. Angels.  We are from Cleveland and were hoping for a clean sweep against the NYY, but it has made the playoffs exciting!

The Indians won the first two games against the Yanks.  Game 1 ended at NYY-3, CLE- 12, and Game 2, a 2-1 victory for the Indians, gave me goosebumps!  Every player on the fied and every batter that came up were immediately swarmed by Canadian soldier bugs.

"Just when you think you've seen it all," Derek Jeter said.  "I guess that's home-field advantage for them - just let the bugs out.  It worked.  It was annoying.  They were all flying around, and I think it was worse on the pitcher's mound."  Hey, look, puss, we have to deal with that seasonally,

And it was.  Yankees pitcher, rookie Joba Chamberlain, had the insects crawling in the crevices of this neck, hovering in his eyes and around his mouth.  Chamberlain threw two wild pitches that resulted in Travis Hafner slicing one through and Grady Sizemore sliding home with a tying run.  The game went into extra innings, the Indians finally breaking the tie for the win.

In this the final of their series, playing on New York's home turf this time (no excuse, Jeter!), Cleveland won with a final score of 6-4.  Cleveland scored 2 rns each in the 1st, 2nd, and 4th innings.  NYY scored a run each in the 2nd, 6th, and solo home runs in the bottom of the 7th and the top of the 9th, but it wasn't enough.  Yankee fans sat with wide eyes and tense faces, the quietest you'd hear a Yankee's game in October as Sizemore hit a homer, and Hafner, Gutierrez, Casey Blake, Kelly Shoppach, and Grady Sizemore (again) all scored runs.

I felt kind of bad at the end of the seventh, after the Yankees cheered on Alex Rodriguez's homer, when one of the announcers said, "And the Yankees want to believe."  Poor crowd.  Oh well, Cleveland needs this!

GO CLEVELAND!!

   

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