Sometime…Anytime, Please!

Mired in mediocrity…and worse…Eric Wedge and the Indians are turning over every rock looking for an answer to the team’s hitting woes.

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Don’t blame Eric Wedge if he didn’t want to get on the Indians’ flight to Arlington, Texas Sunday night.

The Indians, needing some wins, aren’t likely to find them against the Rangers. The Rangers, you see, are no longer a pushover in the American League West.

And neither, evidently, are the Kansas City Royals, who just took a three-game series from the Indians over the weekend with a 6-1 win on Sunday.

The issues? Well it’s not starting pitching, the bane of approximately half the teams in the major leagues. Starter Paul Byrd had a sub-par outing on Sunday, but that’s been a rarity for Byrd and the rest of the Tribe’s front men.

Defense? Not exactly. The Tribe is pretty much average in comparison with the rest of the American League.

Desire? Absolutely not. To a man…even the new men…this is a team that expects to win, wants to win, and can’t figure out the one deficiency that’s kept them from winning thus far through 56 games.

The issue is hitting. In nine of their past 15 games, the Tribe has scored three or fewer runs. In fact, for the season they’ve now scored three or fewer in 30 of their 56 games. It’s no coincidence…they’re 6-24 in those games.

We’re hitting some balls hard, but right at people,” Wedge lamented after Sunday’s loss. “That happens, but you have to give them credit, too. They played well defensively. We just didn’t find any holes.”

Frustrated with soul searching, the Indians are at a point of the season where they have to start hitting soon, lest they find themselves out of the running in a division that has patiently waited for them. They’re 25-31 entering Monday’s game with Texas and just 5 games behind Chicago in the AL Central.

“Certainly I feel like these guys are beginning to come around,” said Wedge to reporters on Sundy. “It’s a fight, and this is the time when you can’t give in. You have to trust the process and believe it will turn around.”

Sometime…anytime, and soon. Maybe tonight, deep in the heart of Texas!