TRIBE BATS SIZZLE IN OPENER

THE INDIANS GAVE THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX NO CHANCE AT VICTORY MONDAY AFTERNOON AT U.S. CELLULAR FIELD IN CHICAGO. THE TRIBE WASTED TO TIME GETTING ON THE BOARD AS GRADY SIZEMORE BLASTED THE SECOND PITCH OF THE GAME FOR A HOMER. FROM THERE THE INDIANS WOULD NEVER LOOK BACK. THEY WOULD SEND 9 MEN TO THE PLATE IN ALL IN THE FIRST SCORING FIVE RUNS. THEY DIDN'T STOP THERE, THE OFFENSE CONTINUED TO STAY HOT AS THEY WOULD SCORE 4 MORE IN THE SECOND. BEFORE ANYONE KNEW IT THE INDIANS WERE UP 9-2 AFTER TWO INNINGS. THE INDIANS WOULD EVENTUALLY TACK ON ANOTHER 3 RUNS AND DEFEAT THE WHITE SOX 12-5. CLOSER JOE BOROWSKI CAME IN IN THE 9TH AND GAVE UP TWO RUNS BOTH ON SACRIFICE FLIES. C.C. SABATHIA WOULD BE THE WINNING PITCHER ON THE DAY AFTER PITCHING A SOLID 6 INNINGS. HE IMPROVED HIS RECORD TO 13-3 AGAINST THE WHITE SOX.