Indians Front Office Should Place Manny Acta on Suicide Watch

Written By Larry M. Glicken "LG"

Manny Acta the manager of the Cleveland Indians did everything he could do to get the Indians to avoid making history by losing a nine game road trip.

Acta had a guy come up from triple A to start the game and Chris Seddon did all he could do to keep the Indians in the game with the Detroit Tigers.

While Seddon didn't set any pitching records he did keep the Indians in the game. Seddon pitched 4-1/3 innings and allowed 7 hits and 4 runs. Seddon walked three,struck out 2 and gave up 1 home run. Not good but the Indians still had a chance to get the win.
 
The Indians led the game from the start. Michael Brantley helped the Tribe get off to an early lead and each time you though this was going to be the day Cleveland would snap the losing streak, the Detroit Tigers were allowed to get back into the game by Indians pitching.

Acta pulled out every trick he knew today, he pulled Choo out of right field and put in 5 infielders at one point in the game. He brought in Vinnie Pestano in the 7th inning and Pestano didn't disappoint in  either of the two innings he worked. The Indians were able to stay in this game and it looked like today would be their day to stop the Bleeding.

The Indians got a home run from Travis Hafner in the 10th inning to put the Indians on top of Detroit 6-5. Ezequiel Carrera came to the plate and he hit his first big league home run to make it 7-5 Indians. Lou Marson came to the plate and hit a double down the left field line to make it 8-5 Indians. All the Cleveland Indians needed to do to stop history from taking place was for Chris Perez to come into the game and close it out.

It didn't happen that way, Perez came into the game and the Detroit Tigers exposed the rust that has developed on the Indians closer who hasn't had a save opportunity in days. Perez gave up 5 runs in the tenth inning and the Detroit Tigers would hand the Cleveland Indians their ninth road loss in a row. The Indians never lost nine games in a row on a road trip in the history of the team. Manny Acta has to be fit to be tied now.

There was nothing else Acta could have done to get the Indians to snap their losing streak today. He pulled out all the stops and it just wasn't going to happen today.
The Cleveland Indians now fall to eight games below .500 at 50-58 and are 9-1/2 games out of first place in the A.L. Central...... Hey Tell us if you think Acta could have done anything different to get this win today, Just leave your comments below....

Larry Glicken is the owner of www.clevelandsports360.com and the host of the Cleveland Sports 360 Show, an online streaming sports video show at www.streamingsportstalk.com