Chipper gets 2,000th hit, but Tribe wins
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Fausto Carmona pitched seven-plus innings to help the Cleveland Indians avoid a three-game sweep with a 5-2 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday. Casey Blake extended the majors' longest hitting streak of the season to 26 games as Cleveland won for only the third time in eight games.
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Cliff Lee won for the second time since July 16 and rookie Grady Sizemore hit a two-run homer, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 9-7 win over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night.
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Chipper Jones hit a three-run homer and J.D. Drew also went deep as the Atlanta Braves continued to close in on another division title with an 8-1 win over the Florida Marlins in Miami on Friday.
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David Ortiz knows how to send a crowd home happy. Big Papi had a game-ending hit for the Boston Red Sox for the second time in three days, and fifth time this season. The latest was a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Monday night that gave the Red Sox a 9-8 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
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Travis Hafner is starting to hit again, and that makes the Cleveland Indians' offense even more dangerous. Hafner homered and drove in four runs, Victor Martinez finished with three RBIs and the Indians beat the Detroit Tigers 11-5 Thursday night to improve baseball's best home record to 18-4.
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The surging Cleveland Indians complete another sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 6-2 victory Wednesday.
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Rick DiPietro stopped an Islanders-record 56 shots, but counterpart Henrik Lundqvist made the biggest save, denying Randy Robitaille in the shootout to give the Rangers a 2-1 victory Monday night in the New York-New York matchup.
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Rick DiPietro stopped an Islanders-record 56 shots, but counterpart Henrik Lundqvist made the biggest save, denying Randy Robitaille in the shootout to give the Rangers a 2-1 victory last night.
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Victor Martinez hit a three-run homer to straightaway center field in the top of the ninth, and the Cleveland Indians ended the game with an unusual double play in a 4-3 victory over the Washington Nationals on Saturday night.
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Jhonny Peralta's two-run double keyed Cleveland's five-run seventh inning, and the Indians rallied to defeat the Detroit Tigers 7-6 on Wednesday night.
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Moises Alou went 3 for 5 with two RBIs and two doubles for Chicago, which has won five of six. Every starter for the Cubs had at least one hit.
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Coco Crisp caused more commotion than a runaway squirrel, diving headfirst for a go-ahead bunt single in the eighth inning that sent Cleveland over the New York Yankees 4-3 Wednesday night, ending the Indians' nine-game losing streak.
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Four runs were already in. Mike Lowell was at the plate, awaiting the pitch from an ineffective Robinson Tejeda, who had just loaded the bases with two outs in the second inning by walking David Ortiz, hitting Manny Ram&#xED;rez, and walking J.D. Drew. With Josh Beckett -- a near certainty to be named to the American League All-Star team today ...
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Victor Martinez went 5-for-6 and Jhonny Peralta and Travis Hafner each hit two of Cleveland&#039;s six home runs, powering the Indians to a 19-1 rout of New York on Tuesday night to spoil Yankees owner George Steinbrenner&#039;s 76th birthday.
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Mark Teixeira became the second player in Rangers history -- and first in more than 19 years -- to hit for the cycle, leading Texas to a 16-4 rout of the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night.
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John Lackey allowed two hits in 7 1-3 innings and the Anaheim Angels moved a little closer to Oakland in the AL West with a 2-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday night.
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Moises Alou picked up his 2,000th career hit Sunday when the San Francisco Giants right fielder hit a bloop double in the second inning against the Milwaukee Brewers.