The Cleveland Indians got off to a 5-0 lead last night and slowly frittered it away into 6-5 ten inning defeat.

But their run production shut down after the second inning.

"Washburn made some adjustments and we didn't make any adjustments back," Wedge said. "We've got to do a better job of putting a complete game together when it comes to what we're trying to do offensively. We've got a ways to go to get to that."

What struck me about strategy, however was Cleveland's bullpen use. With Millwood at 91 pitches, Wedge starts playing the righty/lefty game. He ends up using five relievers to blow the game and a sixth to lose it.

I thought he should have stayed with Betacourt longer. Betacourt has been lights out this season, and struck out the two righties he faced, including Guerrero. If you let Rafael pitch the seveth, you save Rhodes for the eighth, and maybe you have a 2-run lead going into the ninth, and when Wickman gets in trouble you have a few more arms in the bullpen.

I'm sure there were good reasons for the matchups Wedege chose. But I hate to see a pitcher pulled when he's pitching great. It just leaves you less manuverability down the road.