INDIANS NOTEBOOK From Jacobs Field

Injured: Five Indians are on the disabled list. Pitcher Jaret Wright is on the 15-day DL retroactive to March 24 as his recovery from right shoulder surgery last August continues. Pitcher Charles Nagy also is on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 23. Nagy is recovering from right elbow surgery from last May and pitched in four spring training games. Third baseman Travis Fryman has a sprained ligament in his left elbow. He is eligible to return Saturday. Outfielder Dave Roberts is recovering from left shoulder surgery and is unlikely to be activated before June. Pitcher Cameron Cairncross is on the 60-day disabled list after surgery on his left arm on Feb. 28. He's not expected to play before August.
Protests: In what has become an Opening Day tradition at Jacobs Field, dozens paraded around Jacobs Field Monday protesting the Indians' Chief Wahoo logo for being a racist symbol.
Opening pitches: Five of the Indians' honorary co-captains for the 2001 season threw out ceremonial first pitches: Bob Feller, "Sudden" Sam McDowell, Larry Doby, Herb Score and Andre Thornton.
On deck: The Indians and White Sox play again Wednesday at 7 p.m. Chuck Finley will pitch against Chicago's Cal Eldred. The Orioles will be at Jacobs Field Friday (7 p.m.), Saturday (1 p.m.) and Sunday (1 p.m.). Dave Burba will pitch against Jose Mercedes on Friday in a game that won't be televised locally. Bartolo Colon (0-1, 9.00) will oppose Pat Hentgen Saturday and former Mahoning Valley Scrapper C.C. Sabathia will make his major league debut Sunday against Chuck McElroy.
On sale: The Indians announced more than 5,000 tickets are available for each game in this homestand.
Sellout streak: Monday's sellout crowd of 42,606 was the Indians' 455th consecutive sellout, a major league record. Barring a huge surge at the box office, the streak will end Wednesday.
April: Next week, the Tribe will begin a 10-game road trip to Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore before closing April with nine games at home against Detroit, Anaheim and Texas.
Chilly: Gametime temperature was 41 degrees.
Colon: The Indians starter's six-game winning streak was snapped. Colon lost for the first time since July 26, 2000 at Toronto.
Openers: The Indians are 54-47 in opening day games and 5-3 in home openers at Jacobs Field.
New team: White Sox catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. said winning Monday's opener was important, even though there's still 161 games to be played. "Sure, it's [the season] a marathon," he said. "But you can't win two until you win one." When Alomar was introduced as the Chicago starting catcher, he received a warm two-minute standing ovation while highlights of his Indians career were shown on the scoreboard. "That was great," Indians first baseman Jim Thome said. It was very respectful and very deserving. Sandy had a great career here in Cleveland."
New strike zone: Chicago first baseman Paul Konerko wasn't convinced the new strike zone will be called as promised. "It looked to me exactly like last year," he said. "The thing is, if they call the high strikes, most hitters will take their chances with that. The pitchers that went up in the zone to get hitters out will still be able to do that."
Thomas speaks: White Sox slugger Frank Thomas said while the games against the Indians are important, they are "just 19 out of 162. Fans get more involved than the players. I'm sure we'll be tired of seeing each other by the end of the year."
Thomas on Colon: "He has a dangerous fastball with a lot of movement. He's turning into a pitcher. But we have a lot of good hitters one through nine in the lineup. He got some balls in the zone and we took advantage of it."