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| 915 | CLEVELAND | -120 | Ov 9,-105 | -125 | Ov 9,+115 | | 916 | MINNESOTA | +110 | Un 9,-115 | +115 | Un 9,-135 |
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| All Games | 50-48 | -0.3 | 50-45 | 4.5 | 0.256 | 0.322 | 4.5 | 0.258 | 0.321 | | Road Games | 21-29 | -5.7 | 23-25 | 4.4 | 0.248 | 0.316 | 4.4 | 0.267 | 0.334 | | vs Left-handed Starters | 13-17 | -4 | 12-17 | 3.7 | 0.239 | 0.302 | 4.6 | 0.256 | 0.322 | | Past 7 Games | 5-2 | +3.4 | 2-5 | 4.7 | 0.269 | 0.350 | 3.4 | 0.252 | 0.308 | | Grass Games | 47-45 | -0.5 | 47-44 | 4.4 | 0.253 | 0.319 | 4.4 | 0.257 | 0.321 | | Night Games | 30-29 | +0.7 | 33-23 | 4.7 | 0.262 | 0.319 | 4.4 | 0.265 | 0.326 | | Division | 21-20 | -1.5 | 21-19 | 4.6 | 0.273 | 0.336 | 4.5 | 0.255 | 0.318 |
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| All Games | 4.5 | 0.256 | 0.322 | 98 | 3378 | 865 | 279 | 96 | 0.03 | 420 | 328 | 714 | 55 | 702 | 89 | 78 | 93 | 60 | | Road Games | 4.4 | 0.248 | 0.316 | 50 | 1745 | 432 | 142 | 47 | 0.03 | 214 | 174 | 391 | 27 | 360 | 44 | 37 | 43 | 35 | | Lefty Starters | 3.7 | 0.239 | 0.302 | 30 | 1018 | 243 | 68 | 20 | 0.02 | 104 | 92 | 208 | 9 | 203 | 31 | 22 | 24 | 20 |
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| All Games | 3.04 | 1.253 | 320 | 127 | 108 | 273 | 28 | 128 | 318 | 23-11 | 26 | 12 | 68.4% | | Road Games | 2.99 | 1.362 | 159.3 | 63 | 53 | 146 | 14 | 71 | 150 | 10-5 | 10 | 4 | 71.4% |
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| All Games | 44-53 | +2.7 | 48-44 | 4.2 | 0.245 | 0.316 | 4.5 | 0.275 | 0.324 | | Home Games | 21-25 | -2.9 | 24-19 | 4.3 | 0.253 | 0.328 | 4.8 | 0.268 | 0.319 | | vs Left-handed Starters | 15-15 | +4.1 | 15-15 | 4.4 | 0.252 | 0.320 | 4.3 | 0.280 | 0.315 | | Past 7 Games | 3-4 | +0.4 | 3-4 | 4.9 | 0.267 | 0.335 | 4.6 | 0.341 | 0.375 | | Grass Games | 40-51 | -1.7 | 45-42 | 4.1 | 0.242 | 0.313 | 4.5 | 0.274 | 0.322 | | Night Games | 22-28 | +0.5 | 21-27 | 3.6 | 0.236 | 0.302 | 4.0 | 0.263 | 0.312 | | Division | 17-14 | +8.6 | 16-13 | 4.7 | 0.249 | 0.329 | 4.5 | 0.276 | 0.325 |
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| All Games | 4.2 | 0.245 | 0.316 | 97 | 3325 | 816 | 266 | 71 | 0.02 | 380 | 345 | 808 | 51 | 725 | 71 | 48 | 92 | 58 | | Home Games | 4.3 | 0.253 | 0.328 | 46 | 1562 | 395 | 129 | 35 | 0.02 | 185 | 175 | 352 | 27 | 359 | 33 | 28 | 45 | 29 | | Lefty Starters | 4.4 | 0.252 | 0.320 | 30 | 1013 | 255 | 86 | 23 | 0.02 | 123 | 101 | 240 | 18 | 211 | 23 | 15 | 28 | 16 |
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| All Games | 3.14 | 1.197 | 312.4 | 122 | 109 | 280 | 20 | 94 | 238 | 13-10 | 24 | 8 | 75% | | Home Games | 3.23 | 1.245 | 159 | 67 | 57 | 145 | 13 | 53 | 121 | 8-4 | 9 | 4 | 69.2% |
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| 7/7/2014 | MASTERSON(R) | NY YANKEES | GREENE(R) | 3-5 | L | -145 | 9 ov | U | 6 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 1 | | 7/8/2014 | BAUER(R) | NY YANKEES | TANAKA(R) | 5-3 | W | +145 | 7.5 ov | O | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | | 7/9/2014 | TOMLIN(R) | NY YANKEES | MCCARTHY(R) | 4-5 | L | -125 | 8 un | O | 12 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 1 | | 7/10/2014 | HOUSE(L) | NY YANKEES | PHELPS(R) | 9-3 | W | -145 | 8 un | O | 15 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 0 | | 7/11/2014 | KLUBER(R) | CHI WHITE SOX | NOESI(R) | 7-4 | W | -225 | 7.5 ov | O | 10 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 2 | | 7/12/2014 | MCALLISTER(R) | CHI WHITE SOX | CARROLL(R) | 2-6 | L | -185 | 9 ev | U | 6 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | | 7/13/2014 | BAUER(R) | CHI WHITE SOX | DANKS(L) | 3-2 | W | -165 | 8.5 ev | U | 9 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 1 | | 7/18/2014 | BAUER(R) | @ DETROIT | SANCHEZ(R) | 9-3 | W | 155 | 8.5 ov | O | 14 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 0 | | 7/19/2014 | KLUBER(R) | @ DETROIT | VERHAGEN(R) | 6-2 | W | -135 | 8.5 ov | U | 12 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | | 7/19/2014 | MCALLISTER(R) | @ DETROIT | SCHERZER(R) | 5-2 | W | 175 | 8.5 un | U | 8 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | | 7/20/2014 | TOMLIN(R) | @ DETROIT | SMYLY(L) | 1-5 | L | 110 | 9 ev | U | 4 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | | 7/21/2014 | HOUSE(L) | @ MINNESOTA | JOHNSON(L) | | | 7/22/2014 | SALAZAR(R) | @ MINNESOTA | PINO(R) | | | 7/23/2014 | BAUER(R) | @ MINNESOTA | GIBSON(R) | | | 7/24/2014 | KLUBER(R) | @ KANSAS CITY | DUFFY(L) | | | 7/25/2014 | MCALLISTER(R) | @ KANSAS CITY | VENTURA(R) | | | 7/26/2014 | TOMLIN(R) | @ KANSAS CITY | GUTHRIE(R) | | | 7/27/2014 | | @ KANSAS CITY | CHEN(L) | |
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| 7/7/2014 | CORREIA(R) | @ SEATTLE | IWAKUMA(R) | 0-2 | L | 195 | 7.5 un | U | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 1 | | 7/8/2014 | HUGHES(R) | @ SEATTLE | YOUNG(R) | 2-0 | W | 100 | 7.5 un | U | 8 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | | 7/9/2014 | GIBSON(R) | @ SEATTLE | ELIAS(L) | 8-1 | W | 135 | 7.5 un | O | 9 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 1 | | 7/10/2014 | PINO(R) | @ SEATTLE | WILHELMSEN(R) | 4-2 | W | 150 | 7.5 ev | U | 9 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 1 | | 7/11/2014 | JOHNSON(L) | @ COLORADO | DE LA ROSA(L) | 2-6 | L | 175 | 10 un | U | 10 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | | 7/12/2014 | CORREIA(R) | @ COLORADO | MATZEK(L) | 9-3 | W | 160 | 10.5 ev | O | 12 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 2 | | 7/13/2014 | HUGHES(R) | @ COLORADO | ANDERSON(L) | 13-5 | W | 125 | 9.5 un | O | 18 | 8 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 1 | | 7/18/2014 | GIBSON(R) | TAMPA BAY | COBB(R) | 2-6 | L | +110 | 7.5 ov | O | 6 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 0 | | 7/19/2014 | HUGHES(R) | TAMPA BAY | PRICE(L) | 1-5 | L | +135 | 7 ev | U | 5 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 1 | | 7/20/2014 | CORREIA(R) | TAMPA BAY | ARCHER(R) | 3-5 | L | +120 | 8.5 ev | U | 6 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 2 | | 7/21/2014 | JOHNSON(L) | CLEVELAND | HOUSE(L) | | | 7/22/2014 | PINO(R) | CLEVELAND | SALAZAR(R) | | | 7/23/2014 | GIBSON(R) | CLEVELAND | BAUER(R) | | | 7/24/2014 | HUGHES(R) | CHI WHITE SOX | NOESI(R) | | | 7/25/2014 | CORREIA(R) | CHI WHITE SOX | DANKS(L) | | | 7/26/2014 | JOHNSON(L) | CHI WHITE SOX | SALE(L) | | | 7/27/2014 | PINO(R) | CHI WHITE SOX | CARROLL(R) | |
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| |  | CLEVELAND: CLEVELAND (AP) - Jason Kipnis didn't want it to end. He had plenty of company.
After the final out ended the club's magical, turnaround season so jarringly last October, Kipnis, who made his first All-Star team in 2013 and a few of his teammates lingered in the dugout and watched as Tampa Bay's players celebrated their 4-0 win in the AL wild-card playoff game.
One and done. Hardly the finish Cleveland wanted.
And once again, the city would remain without a major sports championship, a drought approaching its 50-year anniversary.
But despite their brief postseason appearance in manager Terry Francona's first year, the Indians intend to play in October again - and again.
''We don't want it to be a fluke,'' Kipnis said. ''We don't want to be a one-trick pony. We want to be at the top and we want to stay there.''
Hoping to build off their unexpected 92-win campaign, the Indians enter 2014 confident they can not only contend this season, but go even further.
During spring training in Arizona, first baseman Nick Swisher, who also serves as the club's high-energy hype man, handed out ''Unfinished Business'' T-shirts to his teammates.
The Indians aren't satisfied.
''Last season, hopefully, was a steppingstone that we needed to get us going in the right direction,'' Swisher said. ''Last year was that amazing year to get us in the right mind frame to say, `Hey, we can do this. We are a team. And people need to start recognizing it.'''
Cleveland had to win its final 10 games just to make the playoffs. The late-season kick wouldn't have been necessary if the Indians had played more consistently, and more evenness has been a focus for Francona, who feels his club has the makings to do something special again.
''I love our team,'' said the AL's manager of the year. ''I love coming to the ballpark and watching them play. They are easy to like because they try hard. When you can show up with a group of guys and you respect the way they go about things it makes the challenging times more fulfilling. We know we can do it now. We've got to try and go do it better.''
| | MINNESOTA: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The number is staggering. In the past three years, the Minnesota Twins have lost 291 games. Ninety-nine in 2011. Ninety-six each of the last two seasons.
A team that was once viewed as a model for succeeding and competing with modest financial resources has been an afterthought for too long now. They have finished last in the AL Central twice and were fourth last season.
So the Twins shed their frugal ways in the offseason, shelling out $73 million to bring in Ricky Nolasco and Phil Hughes to bolster a lagging rotation. They also brought back manager Ron Gardenhire on a two-year deal and moved Joe Mauer from catcher to first base in an effort to protect their franchise player from injury.
''They made a statement: `We don't want to see this again. We don't want to go through this again this summer,''' Gardenhire said.
The Twins said goodbye to longtime first baseman Justin Morneau late last season when general manager Terry Ryan traded him to the Pirates in a stretch-run deal. There weren't many other changes to an offense that has struggled to score runs, but the upgrades to the rotation have given the holdovers some peace of mind that they won't have to score seven runs a game to have a chance to win.
''It's night and day to be honest with you. Terry went out and spent some money on some good arms in Nolasco and Hughes,'' second baseman Brian Dozier said. ''Hughes had a bad year last year but is an All-Star pitcher and I think moving to this park will help him a lot. I think just getting out of New York to be honest with you. ... So we needed to address our pitching staff and Terry did that, and I'm happy about it.''
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| | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PA SPORTSTICKER AL PREVIEW (CLEVELAND-MINNESOTA) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Indians-Twins Preview* =======================
By TAYLOR BECHTOLD STATS Writer
Cleveland (50-47) at Minnesota (44-52), 8:10 p.m. EDT
The Cleveland Indians couldn't overcome a rare poor performance offensively in dropping their series finale against the AL Central leaders, but they're feeling confident moving forward versus the Minnesota Twins.
The surging Indians look to build on a promising start to their longest road swing of the season as they go after a seventh straight victory at Target Field in the opener of a three-game set Monday night.
Cleveland (50-48) was four games behind Kansas City and 7 1-2 back of first-place Detroit at the end of June before its powerful offense helped turn things around this month.
The Indians are averaging 5.1 runs while hitting .279 with a MLB-best 22 home runs in July. Yan Gomes is batting .319 with four homers this month, while Michael Brantley is hitting .377 with three home runs and Chris Dickerson is 10 for 24 with two.
With an 11-5 record this month, the Indians have soared past the struggling Royals and had a chance to get within 3 1-2 of the Tigers by completing a four-game sweep on Sunday. Gomes, however, provided the only run on a seventh-inning homer in a 5-1 loss.
Despite the setback, Cleveland is feeling good about the way it opened the longest trip of the season.
"It was a great series for us," losing pitcher Josh Tomlin said. "Took three games from them, but I came up short."
Now the Indians will try to bounce back with their fifth win in six games while dealing last-place Minnesota (44-53) a season-high fifth straight home defeat.
Brantley has gone 12 for 29 with nine RBIs to help Cleveland take four of the first seven meetings - all at Progressive Field. Mike Aviles also has been a major contributor in the season series, going 8 for 17 with three doubles.
Gomes and Jason Kipnis went a combined 20 for 47 with eight RBIs as the Indians took the last six in Minnesota last season.
The Twins, whose starters have posted an 8.06 ERA over the last four games, are hoping for better results as they give the ball to left-hander Kris Johnson (0-1, 5.40 ERA).
Johnson seeks his first big league victory after allowing five runs and eight hits - two home runs - over four innings in a 6-2 loss at Colorado on July 11 while starting in place of the injured Ricky Nolasco.
In his only home start this season, he didn't give up a run despite walking six over 4 1-3 innings in a 4-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 1. Johnson has gone 0-2 with an 8.71 ERA in three career starts dating to his time with Pittsburgh in 2013.
The Twins will try to provide him with some run support after they totaled only six runs while getting swept by Tampa Bay to open this 10-game homestand. They went 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position in Sunday's 5-3 loss.
"We've got a hot Cleveland team coming in here, in our division, the whole package," said manager Ron Gardenhire, whose club has lost seven of eight at home. "So it's not going to get easier."
Cleveland's T.J. House (1-2, 4.40) hopes to keep the Twins scuffling. He pitched poorly in a 9-3 home win over the Yankees on July 10, allowing three runs and eight hits over 4 2-3 innings.
The left-hander has a 2.38 ERA in his last two road starts.
Kendrys Morales has been a bright spot for Minnesota with six doubles and seven RBIs during a 10-game hitting streak.
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