FAUSTO CARMONA of the Indians fires a second-inning pitch during the Tribe’s 9-7 win at Detroit on Wednesday at Comerica Park. AP / Associated Press
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Wahoos hang 10
Shoppach, Choo lead way as Indians finish sweep of the Tigers
JOSH WEIR Canton Repository
Shoppach believes less is more with Carmona.
“His stuff is way too good to try to do more with it,” Shoppach said. “I think he’s better when he throws about 85 percent. We just want to keep him calm and keep his mechanics together. When he does that he’s pretty good.”
The 24-year-old sinkerballer retired three batters by strikeout and two others by flyball. The rest went down via the groundball.
Even though they failed to finish off Verlander, leaving five runners on in the fifth and sixth innings, the Indians effectively countered the Tigers when needed.
Jhonny Peralta’s jam-job single drove home David Dellucci in the first. After Granderson’s homer tied it, Grady Sizemore’s two-out, two-run single put the Indians back on top, 3-1, in the second. Sizemore has a new single-season career high of 83 RBIs.
Shoppach’s two-run homer in the fourth turned a 4-3 Detroit lead into a 5-4 Cleveland advantage. Shoppach, who has 17 home runs in 281 at-bats, would be on pace for 30 home runs in a 500 at-bat season.
“It’s just important for him to be a hitter first,” manager Eric Wedge said. “If he’s a hitter first and his approach is consistent, then the power will come.”
The Tribe didn’t rest. Shin-Soo Choo provided the Indians cushion with a monstrous two-run home run in the seventh off reliever Gary Glover. Choo almost put Glover’s first pitch onto the concourse in right field, an estimated 426 feet away, for his seventh homer.
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