The Cleveland Indians are officially on a winning streak! They have won 4 in a row and are 7-3 over their last 10. They won the last 3 games by a combined score of 29-2. The Tribe beat KC 9-0, the Phillies 14-2 and the Phillies again last night 6-0. Trevor Bauer went 5 innings and held the Phillies scoreless, with the help of the rest of the defense. He walked 6 batters (4 of them  lead-off hitters) and struck out 5. He allowed only 1 hit in the 5 innings and his pitch count reached 93 before he was relieved by Bryan Shaw. Philadelphia went 0-10 RISP and left 9 on base. The Tribe went 6-16 RISP and stranded 12.  After hitting 7 home runs in the previous game, the Tribe had no HR's last night. Brantley went 3-5 with a run, and Kipinis  went 0-4 (reaching first on a walk). Cabrera went 1-4 with a run and 2 RBI's. Mark Reynolds went 1-5 scoring a run, and Santana went 2-4 with 2 runs. Raburn went 4-5 continuing his hot hitting streak and scored 2 runs. Drew Stubbs went 1-4 and drove in a run.

The Tribe rests tonight and is back in action Friday at 7:05 when the ALC rival Twins come to town. Minnesota will start Lefty Pedro Hernandez (1-0 2.35 ERA) and the Indians will start Justin Masterson (4-2 3.12 ERA). Cleveland is 12-13, 1 game below .500 and in 4th place in the AL Central. They are 3 games behind the Division leading Royals and 2 games ahead of 5th place Chicago. The Twins are 12-12 in the AL Central, 2.5 games back and 1.5 games ahead of Cleveland.