CLEVELAND, Ohio – If the Major League Baseball took the juice out of baseball this season to reduce the home runs, the Indians would not have noticed.
They beat five visitors on Saturday night in an 11-3 win over Detroit at Progressive Field. In the last three games, they have scored nine visitors who were responsible for 16 of their 19 runs. Overall, they have scored 14 visitors in seven games this season, eight more than last year.
Aaron Civale (2-0, 2.45) took advantage of the power play for his second win in as many times against the Tigers. He allowed one run over 7 2/3 overs to improve the lifelong 5-0 against Detroit. Civale is 8-0 when the Indians score three or more runs for him.
“Running is great,” Civale said. “It was fun.”
The Indians have won three consecutive points, while the Tigers have lost five of their last six.
Roberto Perez, Cesar Hernandez, Jordan Luplow, Franmil Reyes and Andres Gmenez housed the Indians. Luplow was close to adding a sixth homer to the score, but he had to settle for a two-run double after a crew member who lasted 2:42 in the sixth innings.
Perez put the Indians ahead 2-0 with a 430-foot homer in second place. Lefty Tarik Skubal (0-1, 7.71) walks Yu Chang out with one and Perez brings him home with his second homer. Hernandez made it 3-0 with a lead in third place. It was a good night for Hernandez. He finishes a slump of 0 for 15 with a double first innings and ends the game with three hits.
Luplow, who beat the lead, made it 5-0 with a three-run run in fourth place. He rode a 432-foot Skubal pitch to center for his second homer. Of course, both came from the left.
In the past three years, 17 of the 19 homers that Luplow beat for the Indians have hit left-wing victims. Luplow barely missed his third homer of the season when his two-out drive in the sixth hit the yellow line on top of the 19-foot wall to the left. Perez and Gimenez, who worked two runs off Bryan Garcia, passed on the doubles.
“I think it was a home base,” said manager Terry Francona. “I told Kerwin Danley (crew member) that if the game was close, someone in New York would have me thrown out.”
Reyes made it 9-1 in seventh place with his third homer in the last two games. Reyes defeated three of the Indians by two homers in Friday’s 4-1 victory.
Gimenez boosted the score to 11-1 with a two-pointer in the eighth after Perez’s lead. It was his first homer with Cleveland.
On the ball carrying less, Perez said: ‘It’s hard to say. In Cleveland in early April and May we do not get this kind of weather (79 degrees at the first pitch). When Kansas City was here earlier this week, we hit some balls in the air and they went nowhere. Tonight the ball is flying. ”
Civale allowed one run on three strokes. He does not run a batter and strikes out six. The lone run he allowed came in the seventh on a lead by Robbie Grossman. Civale, to Grossman’s homer, faced the minimum over six innings. He allowed two singles in that piece, but on both occasions the next Tiger grounded in a doubles.
In his first game against the Tigers on April 4 at Comerica Park, he had a similar series where he had 12 consecutive outings.
“It felt like the last start was transferred to this one,” Civale said. “It comes down to doing my best today.”
After Civale retired the first two batsmen in the eighth, Oliver Perez made his first appearance of the season. Civals walk down the hill to a loud applause from the crowd of 7,570 people. He tilted his cap and waved before stepping into the excavation.
Right 5 right-hander Trevor Stephan, who was just making his second appearance of the season, allowed a two-run homer to Jeimer Candelario of Detroit for the final runs of the game.
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