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GAME LOG
CLEVELAND (AP) -- It was not one single thing that broke the
Cleveland Indians' four-game losing streak Sunday.
It was 11 singles, along with Chuck Finley's seven strong
innings of pitching in a 7-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
|  | | Twins second baseman Jay Canizaro turns the double play with Richie Sexon sliding in. |
"That's what we've been looking for," Omar Vizquel said after
getting two of Cleveland's 11 hits -- all singles. "We used the
hit-and-run, set things up. We used to do that all the time and we
need to start doing it again."
The Indians hit eight singles in the first three innings to take
a 5-0 lead off Joe Mays (4-10).
"They didn't hit all those balls hard, but every one found a
hole," Mays said. "They were a little more selective at bat. They
laid off pitches on the corners and hit some the other way, trying
to make contact."
Cleveland won for just the seventh time in the last 22 games. It
had scored a total of seven runs during its four-game slide.
Finley (7-5) allowed one run and six hits, striking out six. He
walked one and got nine outs on infield grounders.
"That's why Cleveland got him, to stop losing streaks," Twins
manager Tom Kelly said. "He just shut us down."
The left-hander had a two-hit shutout until the sixth. Jay
Canizaro opened the inning with a double off the wall in left and
one out later, Midre Cummings hit an RBI single past Finley.
"I thought getting one run was good because he was
dominating," Denny Hocking said after going 0-for-3 with two
strikeouts. "People say the Indians are struggling, but with
Finley out there like that, they always will have a chance."
Vizquel, back in his customary No. 2 spot in the Indians' order
after being dropped to ninth on Saturday, had a two-run single.
Enrique Wilson had a pair of RBI singles.
The Indians' first three batters all singled, with Ricky Ledee's
line drive to right scoring Roberto Alomar for a 1-0 lead. Jim
Thome followed with a sacrifice fly.
Richie Sexson's two-out single sent Ledee to third, and Wilson's
opposite-field single to left made it 3-0.
In the third, Thome and Sexson drew one-out walks. Wilson and
Kenny Lofton had run-scoring singles.
Vizquel's two-out single off reliever Travis Miller made it 7-1
in the sixth.
Justin Speier replaced Finley and pitched two hitless innings.
Game notes
Hocking and Matt Lawton each went 0-for-3 against Finley
and are hitting a combined .054 (2-for-37) in their careers against
him. ... Finley tied Arizona's Randy Johnson for sixth place on the
active win list with 172. He got his 2,260th career strikeout, two
behind ex-Indian Dwight Gooden for fifth among active pitchers. ...
The Twins' Ron Coomer went 0-for-4, ending his 10-game hitting
streak. Wilson, playing third in place of Travis Fryman, made a
diving stop and throw of Coomer's grounder in the eighth to end it.
... Manuel said Fryman, who sat out with back spasms, may be back
in the lineup Tuesday night.
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Cleveland 7
Minnesota 1
NY Yankees 5
Tampa Bay 2
Baltimore 3
Toronto 2
Chi. White Sox 8
Boston 2
Detroit 2
Kansas City 0
Oakland 10
Anaheim 3
Seattle 11
Texas 4
Atlanta 10
NY Mets 2
Florida 2
Montreal 1
Philadelphia 9
Pittsburgh 1
Milwaukee 4
Chicago Cubs 2
Houston 6
St. Louis 3
Cincinnati 14
Arizona 2
Colorado 3
San Diego 2
San Francisco 6
Los Angeles 5
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