CLEVELAND, Ohio - A baseball game is nine innings long. At the big-league level if it takes three hours to play, it's considered a short day at the ballpark.
The point is there is a lot of time for things to go right and wrong. And when most of them go wrong - as they did for the Indians on Wednesday afternoon in a 7-4 loss to the Rays -- there is almost always one good thing to carry from that game to the next.
Enter The Machine.
Rookie Bradley Zimmer, a 6-5, 220-pound center fielder, played his second big league game on Wednesday for the Indians.