The ball traveled just beyond Pirates left fielder Starling Marte’s glove and was caught in the first row by one of several thousand Cleveland Indians fans who had traveled southeast for just the 34th matchup in the history of the Rust Belt series.
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With Salazar prematurely out of the game, a rare opportunity presented itself for the back end of the bullpen to get some much needed innings under their belts, given how often the starters have been going late into games. “Sometimes that happens”. He had no walks and four strikeouts while allowing six hits in a complete game. Bourne had three RBIs in the Indians’ 5-2 win. In his last start, he allowed four runs on five hits in seven innings taking the loss against the Baltimore Orioles. Jung Ho Kang led off the fifth with a single and Pedro Alvarez followed with a two-run home run, his 12th.
Then Cole took over and sent the Indians to their second straight loss following a five-game winning streak. The 30-year-old Melancon fired 11 of his 19 pitches for strikes in battling five batters. From 11:30 until noon, the team’s starting lineup and coaches will be available for pictures with the bullpen, starting pitchers and bench available from 12:00-12:30… Nick Markakis had a two-run double and Johnson knocked Correia out of the game by driving in Markakis with a single.
Twins right-hander Ervin Santana was impressive in in his first start of the season, but had to settle for a no-decision.
“That was two of the best changeups I’ve seen in a long time”, Hurdle said after Locke and Anderson took turns blowing through innings on six or seven or 10 pitches.
Bauer improved to a 5-2 in eight road starts this season. The Indians perform similarly when they hit one or more homers with a 30-17 record.
Cole (12-3) set down his last 16 batters after the Indians scored twice in the second inning and once in the third to take a 3-0 lead. “He throw off that back foot and I don’t know where it started but he’s made that play in left field before”.
The Indians used five pitchers to stymie the Pirates bats and won, 5-2, in front of a sold out crowd of 38,840 at PNC Park in a game that lasted more than five hours and ended well after midnight.
Josh Harrison motions to the home dugout after his seventh-inning double.
CINCINNATI (AP) – Reds catcher Brayan Pena was ejected from yesterday’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers in the fifth inning after arguing about a replay review that failed to overturn a call that went against Cincinnati.
Blue Jays 10, Tigers 5 • Jose Bautista and Justin Smoak homered in a six-run fifth inning against 2011 AL Cy Young Award victor and MVP Justin Verlander to boost visiting Toronto. Two more singles tied the scores and then Andrew McCutcheon drove home two more on a double, forcing Salazar’s removal from the game with two outs. Melancon would strike out Brandon Moss to end the game and pick up his 27 save of the season.
OAKLAND – Mike Montgomery allowed a run for the first time in almost three weeks but still managed to win his third consecutive start for Seattle, which salvaged a series split.
Anderson has lasted at least 7 2/3 innings in all three of his big-league outings.
The Indians are 2-2 in games that go into extra innings.
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Anderson pitched eight innings in his third major league start, and his ERA rose slightly to 0.76 from 0.57.
