“You have to trust your instincts and go”, said Davis, the American League leader with 31 steals.
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“Early on, he left a fastball to Choi right in the middle that he hit for the home run and made some costly mistakes”, Indians manager Terry Francona said of Bauer, who allowed four runs on five hits and two walks.
Scioscia would also like to see more out of his offense, which nearly got no-hit on Saturday.
“If Mike gets a hold of one there with a guy on base, we’ve got something going”, he said.
In the fifth, the Indians loaded the bases with nobody out, but Carlos Santana and Jason Kipnis-who in the first inning hit a solo home run-each failed to get a run home.
Ramirez, who extended his hitting streak to 16 games, joined Davis with a trio of steals as well.
Johnny Giovatella’s second-inning groundout scored the Angels’ only run. But against Angels starter Jered Weaver (8-10, 5.32 ERA), the Indians twice loaded the bases and twice came away with two-run innings to retake the lead.
The Indians ran wild on the combination of Skaggs and catcher Geovanny Soto. Ramirez duplicated the feat in the fourth. Clevinger was taken deep on one occasion by the Twins and has surrendered four homers in four starts this season.
“It’s a mixture of a lot of things, all of them my fault”, he said. “Definitely slow to the plate”.
“This loss is on me today”, Skaggs said. “His pitches I don’t know the locations they were in but it seemed like Kip was getting some good pitches to hit”. Weaver is seeing Cleveland for the first time in 2016 and is 9-5 with a 3.73 ERA in 20 career starts against the Indians.Bauer lasted 2 2/3 innings at home against AL-worst Minnesota on August 3 but was a different pitcher at National League East-leading Washington on Tuesday.
Lindor stole second in the sixth with Deolis Guerra pitching. Andrew Miller threw two 1-2-3 innings in relief, which ended with a strikeout of Albert Pujols that led to Pujols’ ejection from the game.
Andrelton Simmons had Los Angeles’ only hit, and the Angels lost to the Cleveland Indians 5-1 on Saturday night to drop their ninth straight. Santana got hit in the head with a line drive while sitting in the dugout during Thursday’s game. The Indians improved to five games ahead of the Tigers with Saturday’s 5-1 triumph and are 3-0 on an 11-game homestand that will take them through next weekend.
Angels: RHP Matt Shoemaker pitched eight scoreless innings and struck out 11 against the Indians on June 11 at Angel Stadium.
Indians: DH Carlos Santana returned to the lineup and went 1 for 4.
That run snapped a streak of 18 consecutive scoreless innings by Shoemaker against the Indians.
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Meanwhile, in Cleveland, Mike Clevinger flew up the Indians’ top prospect list on the back of his electric fastball and great breaking pitches in the minors.
