San Diego Padres defeat Cleveland Indians 7-2 – MLB Update
National League East franchise San Diego Padres snatched an impressive 7-2 win over American League Central Cleveland Indians Sunday, March 13 in their Grapefruit League match-up at Peoria Sports Complex in Arizona.
Right-hand pitcher for Padres Tim Stauffer made his third start of spring and smashed the rivals striking-out three allowing just one run on four hits in five useful innings. In his four innings he has allowed just one home-run but could not earn any walk
in spring. However, he considered him more valuable than he did.
"I wasn't as sharp as I would have liked, but overall I'm happy," Stauffer said. "Five innings, 69 pitches is a lot better than 3 1/3 innings and 70 pitches. It was a good, clean five innings, pretty economical. For the most part, I was around the strike
zone and got a lot of groundball outs."
The second run was consumed by Heath Bell who cost it in the seventh inning receiving a homer by Indians’ catcher Paul Phillips. The right-hand batter appeared in three at-bats and made two hits that put the pitcher onto the back foot.
Indians’ pitchers could not put in a decent performance as they failed to restrict the Padres from putting an un-beatable seven-run lead. David Huff turned out to be the most expensive as he threw in two innings and permitted six hits that resulted in four
runs all in the seventh inning and remained unable to strike-out any batter. However, Carlos Carrasco permitted opponents led off in first innings awarding three scores on six hits. Yet he managed to strike-out two batters.
"I was working on fastball command, but I know they look at results," Huff said. "The first two innings, I threw the ball pretty good and was filling up the strike zone.”
It seems as if the Padres have assembled the best combination as all the batters contributed to achieve a 7-run lead. Left-fielder Aaron Cunningham, Everth Cabrera, Kevin Frandsen and Cedric Hunter all put in one run for the Padres.
Indians failed to express even their average because thirteen out of nineteen batters could not succeed in making hit. Second baseman Jason Kipnis and Phillips resisted the pitching making one run each but not enough to pass the Padres.
The Indians will play the Oakland Athletics in Goodyear on Monday, March 14, with Justin Masterson competing with Dallas Braden. On the other side, Padres will face their rivals Chicago White Sox on the same day. Padres have scheduled Aaron Harang to throw
against Jake Peavy who has recently returned from injury.
Indians will try to make their come-back in their match-up against the Athletics.
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