After the first inning Wednesday night, the Indians seemed to be dead in the water. However, they battled back and amazingly beat the Royals 15-13 in a crazy, extra-inning affair. The Royals scored 10 in the first off Paul Byrd, who didn’t make it out of the inning. A catching error by Ryan Garko set up the wild inning. It would get much crazier from there.

The Indians put up runs from the third to the sixth to cut the lead to 10-9. The Royals scored three more in the bottom of the sixth but that would be it for the night. The Tribe pen held them scoreless the rest of the way. Three doubles and a triple in the top of the ninth helped the Indians tie the game. RBI singles by Garko and Hector Luna, who finished with four hits and four RBI on the night, gave them the lead in the tenth and Tom Mastny closed it out for his second save of the season.

Cabrera, Betancourt, and Mastny came in and finally gave the Indians some long-awaited late-inning bullpen help. The game looked to be over twice, after the first and after the sixth, but the Tribe just kept pounding and somehow found a way to win in dramatic comeback fashion.

When he first came to OSU, receiver Anthony Gonzalez obviously had to wait his turn and climb the ladder at the wide receiver position for the Bucks. Gonzalez has had some success the last two seasons and is now the number two man behind Ted Ginn, Jr. However, he’s not completely satisfied.

“I never feel comfortable, ever, in anything,” Gonzalez said yesterday. “I’m the type of person that, no matter what, even in (Cleveland St. Ignatius) high school, when I was team captain and started both ways, I never felt secure.

“I don’t know if that’s part of being an athlete, or just something that goes on in my head, but in no way do I ever feel secure. And then when you look out there and see the guys that we have, the young guys coming up, you know you have to raise your game just that much higher to stay ahead of them and also for the sake of the team.”

Gonzalez should get his fair share of touches in 2006 and he will be leaned on heavily during the course of the season. The Bucks offense will be expected to carry most of the load considering the youth on defense. They may be under a lot of pressure early on to put up points as the defense continues to learn and grow. They have a wave of good, young receivers coming in this season but it will still be up to Gonzalez, Ginn, and Hall to make some big plays for Troy Smith and the offense.