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| 971 | CLEVELAND | -130 | Ov 9,-105 | -115 | Ov 8.5,-115 | | 972 | MINNESOTA | +120 | Un 9,-115 | +105 | Un 8.5,-105 |
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| All Games | 79-74 | -1.6 | 70-79 | 4.2 | 0.253 | 0.315 | 4.1 | 0.251 | 0.309 | | Road Games | 34-44 | -8.1 | 35-41 | 4.2 | 0.249 | 0.310 | 4.2 | 0.258 | 0.320 | | vs Right-handed Starters | 56-50 | -0.2 | 53-50 | 4.4 | 0.257 | 0.319 | 4.1 | 0.251 | 0.309 | | Past 7 Games | 3-4 | -1 | 3-4 | 3.0 | 0.230 | 0.273 | 3.1 | 0.242 | 0.292 | | Grass Games | 76-71 | -1.8 | 67-78 | 4.1 | 0.251 | 0.313 | 4.1 | 0.250 | 0.309 | | Night Games | 50-49 | -2.6 | 48-48 | 4.3 | 0.256 | 0.311 | 4.0 | 0.252 | 0.309 | | Division | 35-35 | -4 | 34-35 | 4.3 | 0.268 | 0.327 | 4.2 | 0.254 | 0.312 |
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| All Games | 4.2 | 0.253 | 0.315 | 153 | 5273 | 1335 | 426 | 137 | 0.03 | 613 | 475 | 1127 | 97 | 1087 | 134 | 112 | | | | Road Games | 4.2 | 0.249 | 0.310 | 78 | 2748 | 684 | 219 | 69 | 0.03 | 317 | 242 | 609 | 50 | 561 | 64 | 54 | | | | Righty Starters | 4.4 | 0.257 | 0.319 | 106 | 3647 | 937 | 315 | 104 | 0.03 | 455 | 335 | 777 | 71 | 750 | 89 | 81 | | |
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| All Games | 3.17 | 1.253 | 488.3 | 198 | 172 | 430 | 47 | 182 | 476 | 33-22 | 36 | 21 | 63.2% | | Road Games | 3.06 | 1.297 | 246.7 | 97 | 84 | 224 | 22 | 96 | 228 | 14-11 | 15 | 9 | 62.5% |
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| All Games | 66-87 | -6.5 | 82-66 | 4.4 | 0.253 | 0.320 | 4.8 | 0.280 | 0.329 | | Home Games | 33-43 | -9 | 44-29 | 4.6 | 0.261 | 0.332 | 5.2 | 0.284 | 0.331 | | vs Left-handed Starters | 21-30 | -4.3 | 27-24 | 4.7 | 0.264 | 0.326 | 4.8 | 0.290 | 0.329 | | Past 7 Games | 4-3 | +1.7 | 5-2 | 5.1 | 0.285 | 0.337 | 5.0 | 0.284 | 0.317 | | Grass Games | 62-85 | -10.9 | 79-64 | 4.4 | 0.251 | 0.318 | 4.9 | 0.280 | 0.329 | | Night Games | 35-54 | -11.3 | 45-42 | 4.0 | 0.247 | 0.310 | 4.6 | 0.279 | 0.328 | | Division | 34-36 | +5.9 | 39-29 | 4.9 | 0.261 | 0.329 | 4.9 | 0.285 | 0.330 |
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| All Games | 4.4 | 0.253 | 0.320 | 153 | 5262 | 1331 | 450 | 123 | 0.02 | 637 | 516 | 1241 | 96 | 1112 | 110 | 92 | | | | Home Games | 4.6 | 0.261 | 0.332 | 76 | 2595 | 676 | 233 | 66 | 0.03 | 333 | 277 | 567 | 50 | 574 | 51 | 54 | | | | Lefty Starters | 4.7 | 0.264 | 0.326 | 51 | 1755 | 463 | 152 | 43 | 0.02 | 227 | 162 | 416 | 34 | 361 | 38 | 36 | | |
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| All Games | 3.80 | 1.323 | 495 | 228 | 209 | 499 | 47 | 156 | 368 | 21-22 | 37 | 19 | 66.1% | | Home Games | 3.91 | 1.367 | 271.4 | 132 | 118 | 285 | 30 | 86 | 194 | 13-11 | 15 | 10 | 60% |
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| 9/6/2014 | KLUBER(R) | CHI WHITE SOX | QUINTANA(L) | 3-1 | W | -155 | 7 un | U | 9 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | | 9/7/2014 | CARRASCO(R) | CHI WHITE SOX | CARROLL(R) | 2-0 | W | -205 | 8 un | U | 8 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | | 9/8/2014 | SALAZAR(R) | LA ANGELS | WEAVER(R) | 3-12 | L | -120 | 7.5 un | O | 8 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 0 | | 9/9/2014 | BAUER(R) | MINNESOTA | MAY(R) | 3-4 | L | -165 | 8.5 ov | U | 9 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | | 9/11/2014 | KLUBER(R) | MINNESOTA | GIBSON(R) | 8-2 | W | -200 | 7 un | O | 10 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | | 9/11/2014 | HOUSE(L) | MINNESOTA | NOLASCO(R) | 2-0 | W | -155 | 8 un | U | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | | 9/12/2014 | CARRASCO(R) | @ DETROIT | PRICE(L) | 2-7 | L | 145 | 7 un | O | 9 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 0 | | 9/13/2014 | SALAZAR(R) | @ DETROIT | LOBSTEIN(L) | 4-5 | L | 100 | 8 un | O | 9 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | | 9/14/2014 | BAUER(R) | @ DETROIT | VERLANDER(R) | 4-6 | L | 130 | 8.5 un | O | 10 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 0 | | 9/15/2014 | MCALLISTER(R) | @ HOUSTON | MCHUGH(R) | 1-3 | L | 110 | 8 ov | U | 7 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | | 9/16/2014 | KLUBER(R) | @ HOUSTON | TROPEANO(R) | 4-2 | W | -170 | 7.5 un | U | 7 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 2 | | 9/17/2014 | CARRASCO(R) | @ HOUSTON | OBERHOLTZER(L) | 2-0 | W | -125 | 7.5 ev | U | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | | 9/18/2014 | SALAZAR(R) | @ HOUSTON | FELDMAN(R) | 2-1 | W | -135 | 8 un | U | 8 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | | 9/19/2014 | BAUER(R) | @ MINNESOTA | HUGHES(R) | 4-5 | L | 130 | 8 ov | O | 11 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 2 | | 9/20/2014 | HOUSE(L) | @ MINNESOTA | MAY(R) | | | 9/21/2014 | KLUBER(R) | @ MINNESOTA | SWARZAK(R) | | | 9/22/2014 | CARRASCO(R) | KANSAS CITY | DUFFY(L) | | | 9/23/2014 | SALAZAR(R) | KANSAS CITY | VENTURA(R) | | | 9/24/2014 | BAUER(R) | KANSAS CITY | VARGAS(L) | | | 9/26/2014 | HOUSE(L) | TAMPA BAY | ARCHER(R) | | | 9/27/2014 | | TAMPA BAY | | |
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| 9/6/2014 | HUGHES(R) | LA ANGELS | RASMUS(R) | 5-8 | L | -110 | 8.5 un | O | 9 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 0 | | 9/7/2014 | DARNELL(L) | LA ANGELS | WILSON(L) | 4-14 | L | +140 | 9.5 un | O | 6 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 1 | | 9/9/2014 | MAY(R) | @ CLEVELAND | BAUER(R) | 4-3 | W | 155 | 8.5 ov | U | 5 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 0 | | 9/11/2014 | GIBSON(R) | @ CLEVELAND | KLUBER(R) | 2-8 | L | 185 | 7 un | O | 8 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 0 | | 9/11/2014 | NOLASCO(R) | @ CLEVELAND | HOUSE(L) | 0-2 | L | 145 | 8 un | U | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 1 | | 9/13/2014 | HUGHES(R) | @ CHI WHITE SOX | QUINTANA(L) | 1-5 | L | -115 | 7 un | U | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | | 9/13/2014 | DARNELL(L) | @ CHI WHITE SOX | CARROLL(R) | 6-7 | L | 110 | 9 un | O | 9 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 0 | | 9/14/2014 | MAY(R) | @ CHI WHITE SOX | NOESI(R) | 6-4 | W | 115 | 8.5 un | O | 12 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | | 9/15/2014 | SWARZAK(R) | DETROIT | SCHERZER(R) | 6-8 | L | +160 | 7.5 un | O | 10 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 0 | | 9/16/2014 | NOLASCO(R) | DETROIT | PORCELLO(R) | 4-3 | W | +115 | 8 ev | U | 9 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | | 9/17/2014 | GIBSON(R) | DETROIT | PRICE(L) | 8-4 | W | +155 | 7.5 un | O | 13 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 0 | | 9/19/2014 | HUGHES(R) | CLEVELAND | BAUER(R) | 5-4 | W | -140 | 8 ov | O | 11 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 1 | | 9/20/2014 | MAY(R) | CLEVELAND | HOUSE(L) | | | 9/21/2014 | SWARZAK(R) | CLEVELAND | KLUBER(R) | | | 9/22/2014 | NOLASCO(R) | ARIZONA | COLLMENTER(R) | | | 9/23/2014 | GIBSON(R) | ARIZONA | CHAFIN(L) | | | 9/24/2014 | HUGHES(R) | ARIZONA | NUNO(L) | | | 9/25/2014 | MAY(R) | @ DETROIT | SCHERZER(R) | | | 9/26/2014 | | @ DETROIT | PORCELLO(R) | | | 9/27/2014 | | @ DETROIT | | |
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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 JEFF BARTL STATS Senior Writer
Cleveland (79-73) at Minnesota (65-87), 7:10 p.m. EDT
A second straight appearance in the wild-card round is looking bleak for the Cleveland Indians, and they didn't do themselves any favors by letting the series opener with the Minnesota Twins slip away in the late innings.
Cleveland turns to rookie starter T.J. House as it looks to bounce back Saturday night at Target Field.
The Indians (79-74) are tied with the New York Yankees and trail Seattle, Oakland and Kansas City in the wild-card standings with nine games to play, giving them few opportunities to make up ground.
They led by one run heading into the ninth inning Friday, but the Twins tied the game before Trevor Plouffe's RBI single in the 10th gave Minnesota a 5-4 victory. Cleveland had won three straight, but it has lost five of eight on its 10-game trip.
"Nobody's going to quit," manager Terry Francona said.
House (3-3, 3.42 ERA) will try to help the Indians get on track by shutting down Minnesota again.
The left-hander didn't pitch seven full innings in any of his first 13 starts, but he's worked exactly that many in each of his last three while going 1-0 with a 0.86 ERA. He allowed four hits and struck out eight in a 2-0 win over the Twins in his most recent outing Sept. 11.
House had his next start pushed back to this contest after the Indians decided to go with all right-handers in their four-game series with Houston earlier this week.
"He's done a really good job. But basically, so has everybody else (in the rotation)," Francona told MLB's official website. "We're at that point in the season where we're trying to win every game we can."
Cleveland seems to be in good shape to pick up a victory considering House is 2-0 with a 1.56 ERA in three starts against the Twins. He'll be opposed by fellow rookie Trevor May, who also has won three straight starts but has posted a 4.50 ERA in that span.
After giving up two runs and walking four in five innings of a 4-3 win over the Indians on Sept. 9, May (3-4, 7.71) allowed three runs and struck out 10 in six innings of a 6-4 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.
"I've always kind of been a strikeout guy," May said. "Getting those first couple of strikes and then giving them some of my best stuff has translated into swings and misses."
The right-hander has 34 strikeouts in 35 innings over seven starts and one relief appearance, but Sunday's outing was the longest of his short career. May looks to deliver another solid outing for the Twins (66-87), who are doing their best to play spoiler.
Minnesota won the final two of a three-game series with AL Central-leading Detroit before Friday's comeback victory. Oswaldo Arcia went 3 for 4 with a homer and two RBIs while Kennys Vargas added a solo shot.
"We're just trying to continue to play good baseball," Plouffe said. "We know we're out of it, but this is the time for a lot of guys to show they can play in a situation like this, against these good teams late in the season."
The Twins will have to play the rest of the season without closer Glen Perkins, who was shut down Friday due to a strain and secondary nerve irritation in his left forearm.
Cleveland second baseman Jason Kipnis sat out the series opener with a sore right hamstring, though Francona hopes he can play in this contest.
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