"The good news about the closerless Indians is there are only 49 games left in the season. The bad news about the closerless Indians is there are 49 games left in the season.

The Indians entered the ninth inning against Tampa Bay with a 7-4 lead Wednesday afternoon at Tropicana Field. Edward Mujica and Masa Kobayashi combined to give up six runs while not recording an out as the Rays rallied for a 10-7 victory. Mujica gave up a two-run homer to Gabe Gross after allowing consecutive doubles to Jason Bartlett and Eric Hinske. Kobayashi relieved and gave up a three-run homer to Carlos Pena.

After the game, Mujica fled the locker room without talking to reporters. It's hard to blame him.

Kobayashi stuck around to talk to a group of Japanese reporters, but he's been through this a lot this season. The homer was the eighth Kobayashi has allowed in 49 2/3 innings.

Where was Rafael Perez?

He threw 28 pitches in two scoreless innings to get the lead to the ninth inning. Perez went two innings Monday to save the first game of this series.

The bullpen has 9 wins and 21 losses this season and has converted 18 of 33 save opportunities - a 54 percent success rate.

There were a lot of wheels spinning Wednesday.

Manager Eric Wedge benched designated hitter Ryan Garko for not running out a ground ball in the second inning. The move eventually hurt Wedge when second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera sprained his left ankle running onto the field for the sixth and had to leave the game."