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Monday, Jun. 5 8:05pm ET
Justice powers Indians with two homers | ||||||
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- If Dave Burba faced the Milwaukee Brewers every game, he might wind up in the Hall of Fame. David Justice had a pair of home runs and four RBI to back Burba, who won his fifth consecutive decision and led the Cleveland Indians over the Brewers 8-4 Monday night.
"I battled all the way through the game," he said. "There wasn't an inning it seemed like it was easy or I knew I was going to get the guys out. I was having problems throwing strikes, I couldn't get my offspeed pitches over. It was just a battle all night." Justice hit a sacrifice fly in the first after Jeff D'Amico walked Kenny Lofton, Omar Vizquel and Jim Thome, then hit a solo homer in the fourth and a two-run drive off Steve Woodard that made it 8-3 in the fifth. Justice, who has 14 homers this season, had the 17th multihomer game of his career, his first this year. Justice's homers gave him 14 for the season and 249 for his career, a statistic that surprised him. "Since I knew I wasn't going to chase down Hank Aaron, I stopped counting," he said. "I'm proud of it but the ultimate goal, and I'm glad I already achieved it, is a World Series championship." D'Amico (2-4) lost his third consecutive game, allowing six runs and seven hits in four innings. "It's definitely a tough lineup, but it makes it even tougher when you're 2-1, 3-1," he said of his control problems. "It was pathetic." Jeromy Burnitz has a sacrifice fly that pulled the Brewers to 2-1 in the third, but Cleveland blew open the game with a two-run fourth that included consecutive homers by Justice and Travis Fryman, and Vizquel's two-run, two out single. Run-scoring singles by Tyler Houston and Ron Belliard made it 6-3 in the fourth. Geoff Jenkins had an RBI single in the seventh off Scott Kamieniecki.
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