Perez has awful debut since being acquired in DeRosa trade

CLEVELAND --  Saturday night, the Cleveland Indians traded Mark DeRosa to the St. Louis Cardinals for RHP Chris Perez and a player to be named later.

Perez' had a rocky debut Monday night against the Chicago White Sox when he gave up four runs in the top of the ninth and hit two batters.  Perez missed his chance to cover first base in another play.

Carl Pavano, who started the game, fell to 6-7.

It was a wild 7th inning when the Indians could not score with the bases loaded and Manager Eric Wedge was ejected after arguing a call with third base umpire Tom Hallion.  Hallion made one call on a slow roller hit by Garko up the first base line and then reversed the call.  This was Wedge's 3rd ejection of the year.

Gavin Floyd shut out Cleveland on five singles over 7 and 2/3 innings.  The Chicago White Sox climbed back to .500 as 15,645 fans saw the Tribe lose 6-3 to Chicago Monday night.

The Indians have lost 11 out of their last 13 games.

The Indians put 3 runs on the board in the bottom of the 9th with homeruns by Choo (10) and Garko (8) but ran out of time and fell short.



(wkyc.com)