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CLEVELAND INDIANS (25-26) at KANSAS CITY ROYALS (29-20) RHP Corey Kluber (3-5, 3.52) vs. LHP Jason Vargas (3-2, 5.16) Game #52/Road #28 » Wednesday, June 3, 2015 » Kauffman Stadium » 8:10 p.m. (ET) » SportsTime Ohio, WTAM/WMMS/IRN LEVELAND INDIANS 2015 OFFICIAL GAME INFORMATION Document Soluons Provider to the Cleveland Indians 4577 Hinckley Industrial Parkway | Cleveland, OH 44109 PHONE: 216.459.8333 | FAX: 216.459.0909 Visit us online! WWW.MERITECHINC.COM Evolving Technology. Powerful Results. “TAKE CARE, TCB” » The Indians edged the Royals by a score of 2-1 last night to take the opener of a 3-game series here in Kansas City. » Cleveland won in come-from-behind fashion for a second consecutive game (also Sunday’s 12-inn., 6-3 win at SEA), as Kansas City got on the board first following Eric Hosmer’s two-out, RBI-single in the 3rd... Tribe tied the game at 1-1 in the 4th, as BRANDON MOSS connected for his 100th career HR, a two-out shot off former Indian Jeremy Guthrie. » MICHAEL BRANTLEY delivered the game-winning with a two-out RBI-single to CF, scoring JASON KIPNIS (FC/stole 2B)...was the first run scored against KC reliever Wade Davis in 2015, snapping a streak of 22.0 scoreless frames by the RH to begin the year...was also just the 4th loss charged to Kansas City’s bullpen this season (10-4). SEARCH & DESTROY » The Indians are 4-1 on this 7-game, 8-day road trip through Se- attle (3-1) & Kansas City (1-0, two-to-play)...the club is coming off a 4-2 homestand against Cincinnati (3-0) & Texas (1-2), which followed up a 5-2 road trip from May 15-21 thru Texas (2-1) & Chicago-AL (3-1). » Cleveland has won 3 straight, 5 of 6, 11 of 14, 14 of 20 and 15 of the club’s last 22 games...Tribe’s 19-13 (.594) record since April 29 is 4th-best in A.L. & T7th-best in Majors. WINS & LOSSES » At 25-26 (.490) and one game below the .500 mark, Cleveland is 2 wins shy of club’s high-water mark for 2015 (+1G, 2-1 on April 9) & sits 8 losses ahead of club’s low-water mark (-9G, 4x, last 14-23, May 18)... the Indians .490 winning pct. is now 9th-best in the A.L...8 of 15 A.L. teams have records of .500-or-better...Indians have a chance to get back to .500 mark with a win tonight for first time since being 2-2 on April 10. » The Indians finished with a May record of 17-12 in May (3rd-best in A.L., 6th-best in MLB) after going 7-14 in April...second time in 3 years with 17+ wins in May (18-12 in May 2013...Cleveland has not experi- enced consecutive losing months since 2012 when club had sub-.500 records from June-October...Tribe’s 18-12 record since May 1 is 3rd- best in the A.L. and 6th-best in the Majors. BEST RECORDS IN MAJORS SINCE MAY 1 Team Win pct. W-L Minnesota .714 20-8 San Francisco .656 21-11 Washington .655 19-9 Texas .645 20-11 St. Louis .613 19-12 Cleveland .600 18-12 » Cleveland has allowed just 65 runs in the club’s 25 wins (2.6RPG) - pitching staff has posted a 2.45 ERA (228.0IP, 164H, 65R-62ER, 64BB, 280SO, 24HR) in those 25 wins, but has a 5.50 ERA (226.0IP, 272H, 157R-138ER, 86BB, 216SO, 27HR) in club’s 26 losses (6.0RPG). » The Indians longest winning streak is 6 games (May 19-24), while the club’s longest losing streak is 4 games, done twice (April 10-14 & April 25-38)...club is 10-14 following a win; 15-11 bouncing back from a loss...the Indians are 16-6 when scoring first, but 9-20 when opponent draws first blood. A.L. CENTRAL STANDINGS » All 4 of Tribe’s AL Central rivals took losses Tuesday...Cleveland holds sole possession of 4th place in the A.L. Central standings, 5.5G behind 1st place Minnesota (30-20)...Kansas City (-0.5G, 29-20) is in 2nd place, Detroit (-3.5G, 28-25) is in 3rd place and Chicago-AL (-7.0G, 23-27) is in 5th place...Trible’s largest deficit of the season is 9.5G, sev- eral times...the Indians have spent 13 days of the season in 3rd place, 14 days in 4th place and 31 days in 5th place. » The Indians are 11-17 within the division this season after going 44-32 in 2013 and 39-37 in 2014...Tribe played 17 consecutive games within the division from April 10-29, going just 5-12 during that stretch. SERIES STUFF » Cleveland has gone 5-9-2 through the club’s first 16 series of 2015 (4-4-0 on the road)...club has won 4 of last 5 series, going 4-1-0 in that span (lone series loss May 25-27 vs. TEX)...4 of club’s 5 series wins have come on the road (April 6-8 at HOU, May 15-17 at TEX, May 18-21 at CWS, May 28-31 at SEA). » Cleveland has gone just 5-12 in series openers (4 of those wins on the road), although club has won 4 of last 6 lid-lifters...in 3-game series, Cleveland owns a 7-5 record in the middle contest...the Indians are 9-7 in series finales & 1-5 in rubber matches. CHOICE OF COLORS | KANSAS CITY SERIES » Kansas City holds a narrow 4-3 edge over Cleveland in the 2015 season series...making their second visit to KC this season, the Indians are 2-2 here at Kauffman Stadium (Tribe dropped 2 of 3 during first trip to “The K”, May 5-7). » The Indians won 6 of their last 8 games here at Kauffman Stadium - including each of the last 3 one-run decisions against the Royals... Cleveland went 4-5 last season here in KC. » Cleveland & Kansas City have had a fairly even, back-and-forth rela- tionship for much of the last 4 seasons, as the Royals have 32 wins to the Tribe’s 31 wins since the start of the 2012 campaign. LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY » JASON KIPNIS has been voted A.L. Player of the Month for May, as the Indians second baseman hit safely in 25 of 29 games at .429 (51-119) with 15 2B, 3 3B, 4 HR, 17 RBI, 30 runs and a 1.217OPS (.511OBP/.706SLG)...became just the 3rd player in MLB history with 50+ hits and 30+ runs in May, joining Ty Cobb for Detroit in 1921 (58H/40R) and Al Simmons for Philadelphia in 1925 (57H/32R). » Marks the second time in his career to take home A.L. Player of the Month Award honors, as his first came in June 2013...Kipnis becomes the 4th player in club history to win multiple POM Awards in an Indians uniform, joining Albert Belle (3: June ‘94, Aug. ‘95, Sept ‘95), Manny Ramirez (2: May ‘95, April ‘99) and Travis Hafner (2: June ‘05, Aug. ‘06)...Belle’s 7 all-time career POM Awards are 4th-most by any sin- gle player behind Barry Bonds (13), Alex Rodriguez (10) and Frank Thomas (8). SUPERFLY » Over his last 4 starts, COREY KLUBER has gone 3-0 with a 1.41 ERA (32.0IP, 22H, 5R-ER, 2HR, 2BB, 50SO), holding opponents to a .195 (22-113) avg...according to Elias, Kluber is the first pitcher in Indians history with 50 K’s over a 4-start span that occurred in the same sea- son - Bob Feller had 50 K’s over 4 starts, however that stretched from final start of ‘38 to his first 3 outings in ‘39...Kluber is the first pitcher in MLB with 50+ K’s over 4 starts since Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2004 (54K’s, Aug. 15-31). » Kluber enters tonight’s start, his 12th of the season, with an A.L.-best 96 strikeouts, 2nd-most in the Majors behind Tampa Bay’s Chris Archer (97 in 12 GS)...dating back to at least 1914, Kluber has an oppor- tunity to become just the 4th different Indians pitcher (2nd right- hander) to reach 100 K’s within his first 12 starts of a season... thanks to STATS for research assistance. FEWEST STARTS TO REACH 100 K’s, INDIANS HISTORY SINCE 1914 Pitcher GS Date RHP Bob Feller 11 May 30, 1946 LHP Sam McDowell 11 June 10, 1965 LHP Sam McDowell 11 May 30, 1968 LHP Herb Score 12 June 9, 1955 LHP Herb Score 12 June 20, 1956 LHP Sam McDowell 12 May 29, 1970 ROOTS » Over Cleveland’s last 15 games since May 18 (11-4 record), the Indians starting rotation has gone 10-1 with a 2.74 ERA (98.2IP, 78H, 30R-ER, 11HR, 29BB, 112SO)...that includes a 6-1 record and 2.23 ERA (60.2IP, 45H, 15R-ER) in 9 road games...Tribe starters are 3-1, 3.13 (31.2IP, 27H, 11R-ER) through 5 games of current road trip. RAW POWER » The Indians bullpen protected last night’s lead with 2.0 more score- less frames and have posted a 0.59 ERA (15.1IP, 7H, 1R-ER, 5BB, 17SO) through 5 games of current road trip...Cleveland’s 2.28 relief ERA (21ER/83.0IP) since May 1 is 2nd-lowest in the Majors behind Detroit (2.09). GYPSY WOMAN » Cleveland has gone 15-12 (.556) on the road this season, the 4th-best road record in the A.L. and 5th-best in the Majors behind Houston (.652, 15-8), Texas (.607, 17-11), Tampa Bay (.565, 13-10) and San Francisco (.560, 14-11)...Indians have won 3 straight, 7 of 8, 9 of 12 and 10 of their last 14 away from Cleveland...Cleveland has not finished a full season with a higher win pct. on the road than at home since 2005 (.531, 43-38 at home; .617, 50-31 on road)...Tribe is 10-14 at home this season. WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN | MISC. NOTES » The Indians have a 14-9 record outside the division, but have gone just 11-17 vs. A.L. Central opponents...White Sox (12-19) are only other A.L. Central team with a sub-.500 intradivision record (KC is 15-11). » Entering tonight’s game against Vargas, Cleveland is 10-11 in games started by left-handed pitchers, as the Indians have won 7 of last 9 games started by lefties. » MICHAEL BRANTLEY collected his 4th game-winning RBI of the season last night, trailing only Kipnis (5, T7th in A.L.) for the team lead... Brantley leads the team with 10 go-ahead RBI, T6th-most in the A.L. (Kipnis 2nd on team with 9). » Including 2014 A.L. Wild Card Game, BRANDON MOSS has hom- ered in 3 of his last 5 games here at Kauffman Stadium (4 total HR). CLEVELAND ROCKS | THIS DAY IN MUSIC... » 1953: Elvis Presley graduated from J.C. Hulmes H.S. in Memphis, becoming first member of his family to earn H.S. diploma...1967: Aretha Franklin had a No. 1 single with release of her version of “Respect,” originally recorded by Otis Redding...1968: Andy Warhol survived gun- shot wounds after being fired upon in his New York City art studio. » BORN ON THIS DAY: (1926) Allen Ginsberg; (1942) Curtis May- field; (1946) Ian Hunter, Mott The Hoople lead singer; wrote “Cleveland Rocks” & was given key to the city by Mayor Kucinich in ‘79; (1947) Dave Alexander, bassist, Iggy & the Stooges; (1951) Deniece Williams, “Wonderlove” back-up singer for Stevie Wonder; (1952) Billy Powell, keyboards, Lynyrd Skynyrd. UPCOMING PROBABLES & BROADCAST INFORMATION Date Opponent Probable Pitchers - Cleveland vs. Opponent First Pitch Radio/TV Thurs., June 4 at Kansas City RHP Trevor Bauer (4-2, 2.97) vs. RHP Chris Young (4-1, 1.55) 8:10PM ET WMMS/IRN, SportsTime Ohio Fri., June 5 BALTIMORE RHP Shaun Marcum (2-0, 5.49) vs. RHP Chris Tillman (2-7, 5.94) 7:10PM ET WTAM/WMMS/IRN, SportsTime Ohio Sat., June 6 BALTIMORE RHP Danny Salazar (5-1, 3.79) vs. RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (3-3, 3.12) 4:10PM ET WTAM/WMMS/IRN, SportsTime Ohio Sun., June 7 BALTIMORE RHP Carlos Carrasco (7-4, 3.92) vs. TBA 1:10PM ET WMMS/IRN, SportsTime Ohio vs. AL: Central West East 21-24 11-17 8-5 2-2 vs. NL: Central West East 4-2 4-2 0-0 0-0 In Series: Home Road Total Overall 1-5-2 4-4-0 5-9-2 Openers 1-7 4-5 5-12 Finales 6-2 3-5 9-7 Rubber 0-1 1-4 1-5 Lead after: Home Road Total 6 inn. 9-4 11-1 20-5 7 inn. 9-1 12-1 21-2 8 inn. 10-0 13-1 23-1 Trail after: Home Road Total 6 inn. 0-9 2-9 2-18 7 inn. 0-12 1-9 1-21 8 inn. 0-13 1-9 1-22 Tied after: Home Road Total 6 inn. 1-1 2-2 3-3 7 inn. 1-1 2-2 3-3 8 inn. 0-1 1-2 1-3 Decided... Home Road Total 7th-or-later 1-5 4-3 5-8 Final AB 1-1 2-3 3-4 Extra-Innings 0-0 1-2 1-2 One-run G’s 1-2 3-4 4-6 Walk-offs 0 3 0-3 vs. RH starter 8-8 7-7 15-15 vs. LH starter 2-6 8-5 10-11 Overall Record ............................. 25-26 Standing in AL Central ...........4th, -5.5G Days in 1st (2-3-4-5) .......0 (0-13-14-31) Largest 1st-place Lead..................... N/A Largest 1st-place Deficit -9.5G(last 5/20) Most G Above .500........+1G (2-1 on 4/9) Most G Below .500 ......-9G (4x, last 5/18) Times at .500 ............2 (last, 2-2 on 4/10) Current Streak .................................. W3 Road Trip.......................................... 4-1 Following a Win ............................ 10-14 Following a Loss ...........................15-11 Last 5 games.................................... 4-1 Last 10 games.................................. 7-3 Last 15 games.................................11-4 Last 20 games................................ 14-6 Longest ‘W’ Streak ............. 6G (5/19-24) Longest ‘L’ Streak.... 4G (2x, last 4/25-28) Come-from-Behind Wins ....................12 Losses After Holding Lead .................10 Team Saves .............. 13-for-18 (72.2%) Record Before All-Star Break ....... 25-26 Record After All-Star Break .............. 0-0 Home Record ............................... 10-14 Road Record ................................ 15-12 Day Games .................................... 8-13 Night Games ................................ 17-13 vs. RH starters ............................. 15-15 vs. LH starters ...............................10-11 vs. Opp. At-or-Above .500 ............ 13-15 vs. Opp. Below .500 ......................12-11 CLE scores first .............................. 16-6 Opp. scores first ............................. 9-20 CLE out-hits Opp............................ 20-3 Opp. out-hits CLE........................... 4-21 CLE/Opp. hits even .......................... 1-2 CLE 3-or-fewer runs ....................... 5-17 CLE 4-or-more runs ....................... 20-9 CLE 5-or-more runs ....................... 16-5 CLE 5 hits-or-fewer .......................... 1-8 CLE 6-9 hits ..................................11-14 CLE 10-or-more hits ....................... 13-4 CLE hits home run(s) ................... 20-13 CLE does not homer ...................... 5-13 CLE allows home run(s) ............... 17-20 No HR by Opp. ................................. 8-6 CLE charged with error(s) ............ 10-15 CLE no error(s) .............................15-11 CLE starter goes 6.0+IP............... 19-13 Players Used (Pitchers) ............. 34 (17) Avg. Time-of-Game (Overall) ..........3:03 ...................................... 9,315 min/51 G Avg. Time-of-Game (9.0IP) .............3:01 ...................................... 8,668 min/48 G CLE challenges overturned .........5 of 10 indians at a glance tribe by the numbers Mon............... 0-5 Tues.............. 3-5 Wed .............. 7-1 Thurs ............ 3-3 Fri ................. 4-4 Sat ................ 4-4 Sun ............... 4-4 April................. 7-14 May ............... 17-12 June .................. 1-0 July ................... 0-0 August............... 0-0 Sept .................. 0-0
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  • CLEVELAND INDIANS (25-26) at KANSAS CITY ROYALS (29-20)RHP Corey Kluber (3-5, 3.52) vs. LHP Jason Vargas (3-2, 5.16)

    Game #52/Road #28 » Wednesday, June 3, 2015 » Kauffman Stadium » 8:10 p.m. (ET) » SportsTime Ohio, WTAM/WMMS/IRN

    LEVELAND INDIANS2015 OFFICIAL GAME INFORMATION

    Document Solutions Provider to the Cleveland Indians4577 Hinckley Industrial Parkway | Cleveland, OH 44109

    PHONE: 216.459.8333 | FAX: 216.459.0909Visit us online! WWW.MERITECHINC.COMEvolving Technology. Powerful Results.

    “TAKE CARE, TCB” » The Indians edged the Royals by a score of 2-1 last night to take the opener of a 3-game series here in Kansas City. » Cleveland won in come-from-behind fashion for a second consecutive game (also Sunday’s 12-inn., 6-3 win at SEA), as Kansas City got on the board first following Eric Hosmer’s two-out, RBI-single in the 3rd...Tribe tied the game at 1-1 in the 4th, as BRANDON MOSS connected for his 100th career HR, a two-out shot off former Indian Jeremy Guthrie. » MICHAEL BRANTLEY delivered the game-winning with a two-out RBI-single to CF, scoring JASON KIPNIS (FC/stole 2B)...was the first run scored against KC reliever Wade Davis in 2015, snapping a streak of 22.0 scoreless frames by the RH to begin the year...was also just the 4th loss charged to Kansas City’s bullpen this season (10-4).

    SEARCH & DESTROY » The Indians are 4-1 on this 7-game, 8-day road trip through Se-attle (3-1) & Kansas City (1-0, two-to-play)...the club is coming off a 4-2 homestand against Cincinnati (3-0) & Texas (1-2), which followed up a 5-2 road trip from May 15-21 thru Texas (2-1) & Chicago-AL (3-1). » Cleveland has won 3 straight, 5 of 6, 11 of 14, 14 of 20 and 15 of the club’s last 22 games...Tribe’s 19-13 (.594) record since April 29 is 4th-best in A.L. & T7th-best in Majors.

    WINS & LOSSES » At 25-26 (.490) and one game below the .500 mark, Cleveland is 2 wins shy of club’s high-water mark for 2015 (+1G, 2-1 on April 9) & sits 8 losses ahead of club’s low-water mark (-9G, 4x, last 14-23, May 18)...the Indians .490 winning pct. is now 9th-best in the A.L...8 of 15 A.L. teams have records of .500-or-better...Indians have a chance to get back to .500 mark with a win tonight for first time since being 2-2 on April 10. » The Indians finished with a May record of 17-12 in May (3rd-best in A.L., 6th-best in MLB) after going 7-14 in April...second time in 3 years with 17+ wins in May (18-12 in May 2013...Cleveland has not experi-enced consecutive losing months since 2012 when club had sub-.500 records from June-October...Tribe’s 18-12 record since May 1 is 3rd-best in the A.L. and 6th-best in the Majors.

    BEST RECORDS IN MAJORS SINCE MAY 1 Team Win pct. W-L Minnesota .714 20-8 San Francisco .656 21-11 Washington .655 19-9 Texas .645 20-11 St. Louis .613 19-12 Cleveland .600 18-12

    » Cleveland has allowed just 65 runs in the club’s 25 wins (2.6RPG) - pitching staff has posted a 2.45 ERA (228.0IP, 164H, 65R-62ER, 64BB, 280SO, 24HR) in those 25 wins, but has a 5.50 ERA (226.0IP, 272H, 157R-138ER, 86BB, 216SO, 27HR) in club’s 26 losses (6.0RPG). » The Indians longest winning streak is 6 games (May 19-24), while the club’s longest losing streak is 4 games, done twice (April 10-14 & April 25-38)...club is 10-14 following a win; 15-11 bouncing back from a loss...the Indians are 16-6 when scoring first, but 9-20 when opponent draws first blood.

    A.L. CENTRAL STANDINGS » All 4 of Tribe’s AL Central rivals took losses Tuesday...Cleveland holds sole possession of 4th place in the A.L. Central standings, 5.5G behind 1st place Minnesota (30-20)...Kansas City (-0.5G, 29-20) is in 2nd place, Detroit (-3.5G, 28-25) is in 3rd place and Chicago-AL (-7.0G, 23-27) is in 5th place...Trible’s largest deficit of the season is 9.5G, sev-eral times...the Indians have spent 13 days of the season in 3rd place, 14 days in 4th place and 31 days in 5th place. » The Indians are 11-17 within the division this season after going 44-32 in 2013 and 39-37 in 2014...Tribe played 17 consecutive games within the division from April 10-29, going just 5-12 during that stretch.

    SERIES STUFF » Cleveland has gone 5-9-2 through the club’s first 16 series of 2015 (4-4-0 on the road)...club has won 4 of last 5 series, going 4-1-0 in that span (lone series loss May 25-27 vs. TEX)...4 of club’s 5 series wins have come on the road (April 6-8 at HOU, May 15-17 at TEX, May 18-21 at CWS, May 28-31 at SEA). » Cleveland has gone just 5-12 in series openers (4 of those wins on the road), although club has won 4 of last 6 lid-lifters...in 3-game series, Cleveland owns a 7-5 record in the middle contest...the Indians are 9-7 in series finales & 1-5 in rubber matches.

    CHOICE OF COLORS | KANSAS CITY SERIES » Kansas City holds a narrow 4-3 edge over Cleveland in the 2015 season series...making their second visit to KC this season, the Indians are 2-2 here at Kauffman Stadium (Tribe dropped 2 of 3 during first trip to “The K”, May 5-7). » The Indians won 6 of their last 8 games here at Kauffman Stadium - including each of the last 3 one-run decisions against the Royals...Cleveland went 4-5 last season here in KC. » Cleveland & Kansas City have had a fairly even, back-and-forth rela-tionship for much of the last 4 seasons, as the Royals have 32 wins to the Tribe’s 31 wins since the start of the 2012 campaign.

    LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY » JASON KIPNIS has been voted A.L. Player of the Month for May, as the Indians second baseman hit safely in 25 of 29 games at .429 (51-119) with 15 2B, 3 3B, 4 HR, 17 RBI, 30 runs and a 1.217OPS (.511OBP/.706SLG)...became just the 3rd player in MLB history with 50+ hits and 30+ runs in May, joining Ty Cobb for Detroit in 1921 (58H/40R) and Al Simmons for Philadelphia in 1925 (57H/32R). » Marks the second time in his career to take home A.L. Player of the Month Award honors, as his first came in June 2013...Kipnis becomes the 4th player in club history to win multiple POM Awards in an Indians uniform, joining Albert Belle (3: June ‘94, Aug. ‘95, Sept ‘95), Manny Ramirez (2: May ‘95, April ‘99) and Travis Hafner (2: June ‘05, Aug. ‘06)...Belle’s 7 all-time career POM Awards are 4th-most by any sin-gle player behind Barry Bonds (13), Alex Rodriguez (10) and Frank Thomas (8).

    SUPERFLY » Over his last 4 starts, COREY KLUBER has gone 3-0 with a 1.41 ERA (32.0IP, 22H, 5R-ER, 2HR, 2BB, 50SO), holding opponents to a .195 (22-113) avg...according to Elias, Kluber is the first pitcher in Indians history with 50 K’s over a 4-start span that occurred in the same sea-son - Bob Feller had 50 K’s over 4 starts, however that stretched from final start of ‘38 to his first 3 outings in ‘39...Kluber is the first pitcher in MLB with 50+ K’s over 4 starts since Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2004 (54K’s, Aug. 15-31). » Kluber enters tonight’s start, his 12th of the season, with an A.L.-best 96 strikeouts, 2nd-most in the Majors behind Tampa Bay’s Chris Archer (97 in 12 GS)...dating back to at least 1914, Kluber has an oppor-tunity to become just the 4th different Indians pitcher (2nd right-hander) to reach 100 K’s within his first 12 starts of a season...thanks to STATS for research assistance.

    FEWEST STARTS TO REACH 100 K’s,INDIANS HISTORY SINCE 1914

    Pitcher GS Date RHP Bob Feller 11 May 30, 1946 LHP Sam McDowell 11 June 10, 1965 LHP Sam McDowell 11 May 30, 1968 LHP Herb Score 12 June 9, 1955 LHP Herb Score 12 June 20, 1956 LHP Sam McDowell 12 May 29, 1970

    ROOTS » Over Cleveland’s last 15 games since May 18 (11-4 record), the Indians starting rotation has gone 10-1 with a 2.74 ERA (98.2IP, 78H, 30R-ER, 11HR, 29BB, 112SO)...that includes a 6-1 record and 2.23 ERA (60.2IP, 45H, 15R-ER) in 9 road games...Tribe starters are 3-1, 3.13 (31.2IP, 27H, 11R-ER) through 5 games of current road trip.

    RAW POWER » The Indians bullpen protected last night’s lead with 2.0 more score-less frames and have posted a 0.59 ERA (15.1IP, 7H, 1R-ER, 5BB, 17SO) through 5 games of current road trip...Cleveland’s 2.28 relief ERA (21ER/83.0IP) since May 1 is 2nd-lowest in the Majors behind Detroit (2.09).

    GYPSY WOMAN » Cleveland has gone 15-12 (.556) on the road this season, the 4th-best road record in the A.L. and 5th-best in the Majors behind Houston (.652, 15-8), Texas (.607, 17-11), Tampa Bay (.565, 13-10) and San Francisco (.560, 14-11)...Indians have won 3 straight, 7 of 8, 9 of 12 and 10 of their last 14 away from Cleveland...Cleveland has not finished a full season with a higher win pct. on the road than at home since 2005 (.531, 43-38 at home; .617, 50-31 on road)...Tribe is 10-14 at home this season.

    WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN | MISC. NOTES » The Indians have a 14-9 record outside the division, but have gone just 11-17 vs. A.L. Central opponents...White Sox (12-19) are only other A.L. Central team with a sub-.500 intradivision record (KC is 15-11). » Entering tonight’s game against Vargas, Cleveland is 10-11 in games started by left-handed pitchers, as the Indians have won 7 of last 9 games started by lefties. » MICHAEL BRANTLEY collected his 4th game-winning RBI of the season last night, trailing only Kipnis (5, T7th in A.L.) for the team lead...Brantley leads the team with 10 go-ahead RBI, T6th-most in the A.L. (Kipnis 2nd on team with 9). » Including 2014 A.L. Wild Card Game, BRANDON MOSS has hom-ered in 3 of his last 5 games here at Kauffman Stadium (4 total HR).

    CLEVELAND ROCKS | THIS DAY IN MUSIC... » 1953: Elvis Presley graduated from J.C. Hulmes H.S. in Memphis, becoming first member of his family to earn H.S. diploma...1967: Aretha Franklin had a No. 1 single with release of her version of “Respect,” originally recorded by Otis Redding...1968: Andy Warhol survived gun-shot wounds after being fired upon in his New York City art studio. » BORN ON THIS DAY: (1926) Allen Ginsberg; (1942) Curtis May-field; (1946) Ian Hunter, Mott The Hoople lead singer; wrote “Cleveland Rocks” & was given key to the city by Mayor Kucinich in ‘79; (1947) Dave Alexander, bassist, Iggy & the Stooges; (1951) Deniece Williams, “Wonderlove” back-up singer for Stevie Wonder; (1952) Billy Powell, keyboards, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

    UPCOMING PROBABLES & BROADCAST INFORMATIONDate Opponent Probable Pitchers - Cleveland vs. Opponent First Pitch Radio/TVThurs., June 4 at Kansas City RHP Trevor Bauer (4-2, 2.97) vs. RHP Chris Young (4-1, 1.55) 8:10PM ET WMMS/IRN, SportsTime OhioFri., June 5 BALTIMORE RHP Shaun Marcum (2-0, 5.49) vs. RHP Chris Tillman (2-7, 5.94) 7:10PM ET WTAM/WMMS/IRN, SportsTime OhioSat., June 6 BALTIMORE RHP Danny Salazar (5-1, 3.79) vs. RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (3-3, 3.12) 4:10PM ET WTAM/WMMS/IRN, SportsTime OhioSun., June 7 BALTIMORE RHP Carlos Carrasco (7-4, 3.92) vs. TBA 1:10PM ET WMMS/IRN, SportsTime Ohio

    vs. AL: Central West East 21-24 11-17 8-5 2-2 vs. NL: Central West East 4-2 4-2 0-0 0-0 In Series: Home Road Total Overall 1-5-2 4-4-0 5-9-2 Openers 1-7 4-5 5-12 Finales 6-2 3-5 9-7 Rubber 0-1 1-4 1-5 Lead after: Home Road Total 6 inn. 9-4 11-1 20-5 7 inn. 9-1 12-1 21-2 8 inn. 10-0 13-1 23-1 Trail after: Home Road Total 6 inn. 0-9 2-9 2-18 7 inn. 0-12 1-9 1-21 8 inn. 0-13 1-9 1-22 Tied after: Home Road Total 6 inn. 1-1 2-2 3-3 7 inn. 1-1 2-2 3-3 8 inn. 0-1 1-2 1-3 Decided... Home Road Total 7th-or-later 1-5 4-3 5-8 Final AB 1-1 2-3 3-4 Extra-Innings 0-0 1-2 1-2 One-run G’s 1-2 3-4 4-6 Walk-offs 0 3 0-3 vs. RH starter 8-8 7-7 15-15 vs. LH starter 2-6 8-5 10-11

    Overall Record ............................. 25-26 Standing in AL Central ...........4th, -5.5G Days in 1st (2-3-4-5) .......0 (0-13-14-31) Largest 1st-place Lead.....................N/A Largest1st-placeDeficit -9.5G(last 5/20) Most G Above .500........+1G (2-1 on 4/9) Most G Below .500 ......-9G (4x, last 5/18) Times at .500 ............2 (last, 2-2 on 4/10) Current Streak .................................. W3 Road Trip.......................................... 4-1 Following a Win ............................ 10-14 Following a Loss ...........................15-11 Last 5 games.................................... 4-1 Last 10 games.................................. 7-3 Last 15 games.................................11-4 Last 20 games................................ 14-6 Longest ‘W’ Streak ............. 6G (5/19-24) Longest ‘L’ Streak ....4G (2x, last 4/25-28) Come-from-Behind Wins ....................12 Losses After Holding Lead .................10 Team Saves .............. 13-for-18 (72.2%) Record Before All-Star Break ....... 25-26 Record After All-Star Break .............. 0-0 Home Record ............................... 10-14 Road Record ................................ 15-12 Day Games .................................... 8-13 Night Games ................................ 17-13 vs. RH starters ............................. 15-15 vs. LH starters ...............................10-11 vs. Opp. At-or-Above .500 ............ 13-15 vs. Opp. Below .500 ......................12-11 CLEscoresfirst .............................. 16-6 Opp.scoresfirst ............................. 9-20 CLE out-hits Opp............................ 20-3 Opp. out-hits CLE........................... 4-21 CLE/Opp. hits even .......................... 1-2 CLE 3-or-fewer runs ....................... 5-17 CLE 4-or-more runs ....................... 20-9 CLE 5-or-more runs ....................... 16-5 CLE 5 hits-or-fewer .......................... 1-8 CLE 6-9 hits ..................................11-14 CLE 10-or-more hits ....................... 13-4 CLE hits home run(s) ................... 20-13 CLE does not homer ...................... 5-13 CLE allows home run(s) ............... 17-20 No HR by Opp. ................................. 8-6 CLE charged with error(s) ............ 10-15 CLE no error(s) .............................15-11 CLE starter goes 6.0+IP ............... 19-13 Players Used (Pitchers) ............. 34 (17) Avg. Time-of-Game (Overall) ..........3:03 ......................................9,315 min/51 G Avg. Time-of-Game (9.0IP) .............3:01 ......................................8,668 min/48 G CLE challenges overturned .........5 of 10

    indians at a glance

    tribe by the numbers

    Mon...............0-5 Tues ..............3-5 Wed ..............7-1 Thurs ............3-3 Fri .................4-4 Sat ................4-4 Sun ...............4-4

    April.................7-14 May ...............17-12 June ..................1-0 July ...................0-0 August...............0-0 Sept ..................0-0

  • PAGE 2 CLEVELAND INDIANS GAME NOTES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015

    Innings: 9.0, May 18 at CWS Innings: 9.0, 5x, last May 18, 2015 at CWS Hits: 13, April 22 at CWS Hits: 13, April 22, 2015 at CWS Runs: 6, 2x, last April 27 vs. KC Runs: 8, May 10, 2013 at DET ER: 6, April 22 at CWS ER: 8, May 10, 2013 at DET SO’s: 18, May 13 vs. StL SO’s: 18, May 13, 2015 vs. StL Walks: 2, 4x, last May 7 at KC Walks: 4, 4x, last Aug. 21, 2014 at MIN HR: 2, May 28 at SEA HR: 3, Sept. 1, 2014 vs. DET Pitches: 113, May 13 vs. StL Pitches: 120, Sept. 21, 2014 at MIN CG’s: NA CG’s: 3, last Sept. 6, 2014 vs. CWS Low-Hit CG: NA Low-Hit CG: 3, July 30, 2014 vs. SEA CG SHO’s: NA CG SHO’s: 1, July 30, 2014 vs. SEA Win Streak: 3, May 13-Present Win Streak: 6, July 6-Aug. 9, 2014

    TONIGHT’S START » The 29-year-old right-hander & 2014 A.L. Cy Young Award winner is scheduled to make his 12th start of the 2015 campaign tonight in the middle contest of this 3-game series at Kansas City, also the 87th game and 82nd start of his career. » Will be pitching on 5 days’ rest after earning the win in a 5-3 victory at Seattle on May 28...logged 7.0 innings, striking out 13 (7.0IP, 7H, 3R/ER, 2HR, 1BB, 13SO, 112 pitches/82 strikes). » Is 0-2 with a 6.75 ERA (9ER/12.0IP) over 2 games/starts against Kansas City this sea-son...suffered the loss in his last start against the Royals, yielding 5 runs (earned) in a 7-4 Indians loss on May 7 (5.2IP, 7H, 1HR, 5R/ER, 2BB, 7SO). » Will be making his eighth appearance at Kauffman Stadium, his second appearance here in 2015...is 1-2 with a 5.05 ERA (23ER/41.0IP) in 8 career starts at Kansas City. » Has gone 3-0 with a 1.41 ERA (5ER/32.0IP) and 50 K’s against just 2 walks over his last 4 outings...is currently 2nd in MLB with 96 strikeouts and is 5th in the Majors with a 11.27 strikeouts per 9.0IP ratio. » Kluber is currently 4 strikeouts away from 100 on the season...would be the first MLB pitcher to 100 K’s this season...also would be the quickest Indians pitcher to 100 punchouts since SAM McDOWELL reached 100 K’s in 12 starts in 1970.

    LAST START » Pushed his win streak to 3 games in a 5-3 Tribe win over Seattle on May 28 at Safeco Field...Kluber continued his dominant stretch of starts, fanning 13 batters in 7.0 innings pitched (7.0IP, 7H, 3R/ER, 2HR, 1BB, 13SO, 112 pitches/82 strikes). » The right-hander is now 10-0 when recording 10-or-more punchouts in a game and has tallied double-digit strikeout performances in 3 of his last 4 starts.

    MONSTEROUS MAY » The 2014 Cy-Young winner has gone 3-0 with a 1.41 ERA (5ER/32.0IP) and 50 K’s against just 2 walks over his last 4 outings - logging 7.0+ IP in all 4 outings, while hold-ing opponents to a .195 clip (22-for-113)...according to ELIAS, Kluber is the first pitcher in Indians history with 50 K’s over a 4-start span that occured in the same season...first MLB pitcher to pull the trick since Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2004 (54 K’s, Aug. 15-31). » Has recorded 60 K’s in a single month for the second time in his career (also May 2014)...now joins Bob Feller & Sam McDowell (8x each) as one of only 3 Indian players to pull the deed multiple times. » Dating back to at least 1914, Kluber becomes just the 7th different MLB pitcher to record 60+ K’s and no more than 6BB’s in a single calendar month, joining Juan Marichal (1963), Pedro Martinez (1999), Curt Schilling (twice in 2002) and Clayton Kershaw (2014)...credit MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian.

    VS. KANSAS CITY » Comes into his 12th career start/appearance against Kansas City with a 4-3 record and 3.48 ERA (28ER/72.1IP) when facing the A.L Central opponent...the Indians are 6-5 all time in games started by Kluber against the Royals. » Kluber is 0-2 with a 6.75 ERA (9ER/12.0IP) in 2 games/starts against KC this season...in his most recent outing against the Royals on May 7, the 2014 Cy-Young winner allowed 5 runs (earned) on 7 hits, logging 5.2 innings of work (5.2IP, 7H, 1HR, 5R/ER, 2BB, 7SO) in a 7-4 Indians loss...the defending American League Champs are hitting a .333 clip (17-for-51) against the right-hander this season. » The 2014 A.L. Cy Young Award winner went 2-1 with a 1.15 ERA (4ER/31.1IP) last sea-son in 4 starts against Kansas City...his 1.15 ERA and 36 K’s led all Major League pitchers against the Royals last season, while the .147 (16-for-109) batting average against came in 2nd behind Seattle’s Chris Young (.125, 6-for-48).

    KAUFFMAN STADIUM | ON THE ROAD » Kluber is set to make his eighth start/appearance at Kauffman Stadium - second in 2015...suffered the loss in his lone 2015 start at Kansas City, allowing 5 runs (earned) in a 7-4 Tribe loss on May 7 (5.2IP, 7H, 5R/ER, 2BB, 7SO)...has posted a lifetime 1-2 record with a 5.05 ERA (23ER/41.0IP) and 37 strikeouts against 10 walks in 8 career starts. » Led all of MLB with a 1.93 ERA (3ER/14.0IP) at Kauffman Stadium in 2014 and recorded 14 strikeouts, the most of any pitcher that did not play for the Royals. » Earned his first road win of the season in his last start on May 28 in a 5-3 Indians win at Seattle (7.0IP, 7H, 2HR, 3R/ER, 1BB, 13SO), snapping a 3-game road losing streak...now carries a 1-3 road record with a 3.98 ERA (19ER/43.0IP) over 6 games/starts this season.

    ‘K’LUBER » Kluber (76.2IP) is currently 2nd in MLB with 96 strikeouts...also 5th in the Majors with an 11.27 SO per 9.0IP ratio and 5th with a 7.38 SO/BB ratio (96SO/13BB)...the right-hander is carrying the highest swing and miss % of his career (31.2%), 4th-highest in MLB. » Since the start of the 2014 season, Kluber sits on top of MLB with 365 strikeouts, 23 strikeouts ahead of Washington’s Max Scherzer...also sits 3rd in the Majors with a 10.52 SO per 9.0IP ratio since the start of 2014, behind Los Angeles-NL’s Clayton Kershaw (10.94) and Chicago-AL’s Chris Sale (10.58)...over the past 2 seasons, his 15 double-digit strikeout efforts are most in the Majors ahead of David Price (12), Max Scherzer & Chris Sale (11 each).

    RUN SUPPORT » Kluber currently has the 4th-lowest lowest run support average (RSA) in the Majors (2.58, 76.2IP), trailing Oakland’s Jesse Chavez (1.36, 59.2IP), San Francisco’s Tim Hud-son (2.31, 62.1) and Milwaukee’s Matt Garza (2.32, 62.0IP) as he has received 22 runs of support over his first 11 starts and has had 3-runs-or-fewer of support in all but one contest.

    2015 HIGHLIGHT REEL » Kluber recorded 5 K’s in his start on April 27 against Kansas City, reaching 500 career strikeouts in his 80th career game...is the 39th Indians pitcher to reach 500 punchouts in franchise history, all while wearing the Cleveland uniform...became the second-fastest Tribe pitcher to do so in franchise history behind Herb score (68 games) and 5th-fastest among active pitchers (STATS). » With a victory on May 13 in a 2-0 Tribe victory vs. StL, Kluber and the Indians snapped an 0-7 skid to start the season in games started by the reigning A.L. Cy Young winner...ac-coring to STATS, he was just the second reigning Cy Young winner whose team went 0-7 to begin the following season, as the Minnesota Twins dropped each of LHP Frank Viola’s first 7 starts in 1989...Kluber had a potential no-hitter broken up with a 2-out single (8.0IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 113 pitches/74 strikes)...the 18 K’s matched the franchise record for a 9.0-inning game, originally set by Bob Feller in Game 1 of a DH on Oct. 2, 1938 vs. DET...were the most by any MLB pitcher in a game since Milwaukee’s Ben Sheets struck out 18 on May 16, 2004 against ATL and the most in an A.L. game since Toronto’s Roger Clemens struck out 18 on Aug. 25, 1998 against KC. » Became one of 5 different pitchers in Major League history to strike out 18-or-more bat-ters without allowing a walk, joining Luis Tiant (1X), Roger Clemens (3x), Randy Johnson (2x) and Kerry Wood (1x)...first Indians pitcher since Luis Tiant did so on July 3, 1968 against MIN (19SO, 0BB, 10.0IP)...according to Elias, only one other pitcher in MLB his-tory has recorded 18+ K’s in an outing of no more than 8.0 innings: Seattle’s Randy John-son on Sept. 27, 1992 at Texas (8.0IP, 6H, 2R-ER, 4BB, 18SO). » On May 18 at Chicago-AL, Kluber joined Houston’s DALLAS KEUCHEL (April 24 at OAK) as the only other pitcher this season to allow one-or-zero runs in an outing of 9.0 innings and not earn a win...over the past 7 seasons (2009-15), Kluber owns the only two instaces in which an Indians pitcher recorded a start of 9.0+ innings and one-or-zero runs allowed without earning a win (also July 24, 2014 at KC)...last Tribe pitcher before Kluber to endure those circumstances was CLIFF LEE in Game 2 of a doubleheader on May 12, 2008 vs. TOR (9.0IP, 0R/ER).

    KLUBER’S CAREER RECORD W-L ERA G GS IP H R ER BB SO 2015 3-5 3.52 11 11 76.2 73 33 30 13 96 Career 34-24 3.36 86 81 527.0 515 220 197 118 560

    KLUBER vs. KANSAS CITY W-L ERA G GS IP H R ER BB SO 2015 0-2 6.75 2 2 12.0 17 11 9 4 12 Career 4-3 3.48 11 11 72.1 62 35 28 16 71

    KLUBER at KAUFFMAN STADIUM W-L ERA G GS IP H R ER BB SO 2015 0-1 7.94 1 1 5.2 7 5 5 2 7 Career 1-2 5.05 7 7 41.0 41 27 23 10 37

    W L ERA G/S IP ER HOME 2 2 2.94 5/5 33.2 11 ROAD 1 3 3.98 6/6 43.0 19 DAY 1 3 5.23 5/5 31.0 18 NIGHT 2 2 2.36 6/6 45.2 12 GRASS 3 5 3.52 11/11 76.2 30 TURF 0 0 - 0/0 0.0 0

    28KLUBERCOREY

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    Kluber vs. Kansas City PLAYER AVG H AB HR RBI BB SO Cain .182 4 22 0 1 0 4 Colon .000 0 5 0 0 0 2 Dyson .259 7 27 0 1 1 5 Escobar .172 5 29 0 0 0 12 Gordon .200 6 30 2 6 1 12 Hosmer .207 6 29 3 11 3 7 Infante .304 7 23 0 1 1 2 Morales .222 2 9 0 0 0 1 Moustakas .481 13 27 1 3 3 5 Perez .190 4 21 0 2 2 7 Rios .300 3 10 0 2 0 2

    Vargas vs. Cleveland PLAYER AVG H AB HR RBI BB SO Aviles .250 4 16 1 3 2 2 Bourn .286 4 14 0 2 0 3 Brantley .273 6 22 1 2 3 0 Chisenhall .200 2 10 0 0 0 1 Gomes .400 4 10 1 3 1 1 Kipnis .333 6 18 0 4 0 3 Moss .250 2 8 0 1 0 1 Murphy .083 2 24 0 0 2 5 Perez .200 1 5 0 0 1 3 Raburn .120 3 25 0 0 0 5 Ramirez .143 1 7 0 1 0 0 Santana .238 5 21 0 1 4 5 Swisher .278 5 18 2 3 3 1

    AVG H AB HR RBI BB SO vs. LEFT .283 43 152 3 11 9 45 vs. RIGHT .219 30 137 3 11 4 51 TOTALS .253 73 289 6 22 13 96

    W L ERA G/S IP ER HOME 17 11 2.95 44/41 271.2 89 ROAD 17 13 3.81 42/40 255.1 108 DAY 13 10 3.59 32/31 198.0 79 NIGHT 21 14 3.23 54/50 329.0 118 GRASS 32 24 3.38 84/79 513.1 193 TURF 2 0 2.63 2/2 13.2 4

    AVG H AB HR RBI BB SO vs. LEFT .269 290 1080 26 113 83 299 vs. RIGHT .240 225 938 18 78 35 261 TOTALS .255 515 2018 44 191 118 560

    2015 mlb splits Career mlb splits

    2015 HIGHS CAREER HIGHS

    BATTER-PITCHER MATCH-UPs

    CAREER SNAPSHOT » Right-hander is in his 6th season with Cleveland after being acquired from the San Diego Padres on July 31, 2010 in a 3-team trade that sent RHP Jake Westbrook (from Cleveland) and LHP Nicholas Greenwood (from San Diego) to the St. Louis Cardinals and moved OF Ryan Ludwick from St. Louis to San Diego. » Signed 5-year contract extension w/ Indians thru 2019 on April 5, 2015; deal includes club options for 2020 & 2021 and could cover up to first 3 years of free agency. » Made MLB debut w/ 3 relief appearances as a Sept. call-up with Cleveland in 2011...also made 12 starts down the stretch in 2012 from Aug.-Oct...has been a mainstay in Tribe rotation since late April 2013...has 5 career relief appearances, last on April 20, 2013 at HOU.

    STEAL RATES WHILE PITCHING Year(s) CS SBA CS% 2008-14 15 44 34.1 2015 4 11 36.36 TOTAL 19 55 34.55%

    Date Opp. Score Dec. ERA IP H R ER HR BB-I SO Left Game P/S 4/6 at HOU 0-2 L 2.45 7.1 3 2 2 0 2-0 7 Trailing 0-1 102/67 4/11 vs. DET 6-9 - 2.63 6.1 7 2 2 1 1-0 10 Leading 3-2 107/70 4/17 at MIN 2-3 - 2.49 8.0 3 2 2 0 1-1 8 Tied, 2-2 96/67 4/22 at CWS 0-6 L 3.90 6.0 13 6 6 1 1-0 6 Trailing 0-6 102/68 4/27 vs KC 2-6 L 4.24 6.1 10 6 4 0 2-1 5 Trailing 2-4 101/64 April Totals 0-3 4.24 34.0 36 18 16 2 7-2 36 5/2 vs TOR 4-11 L 4.62 5.0 8 5 4 1 2-0 3 Trailing 2-4 91/59 5/7 at KC 4-7 L 5.04 5.2 7 5 5 1 2-0 7 Trailing 3-5 104/69 5/13 vs. StL 2-0 W 4.27 8.0 1 0 0 0 0-0 18 Leading 2-0 113/74 5/18 at CWS 1-2 - 3.79 9.0 5 1 1 0 1-0 12 Tied 1-1 108/80 5/23 vs. CIN 2-1 W 3.49 8.0 9 1 1 0 0-0 7 Leading 2-1 102/77 5/28 at SEA 5-3 W 3.52 7.0 7 3 3 2 1-0 13 Leading 5-3 112/82 May Totals 3-2 2.95 42.2 37 15 14 4 6-0 60 Season Totals 3-5 3.52 76.2 73 33 30 6 13-2 96

    KLUBER’S 2015 DAY-BY-DAY

    THURSDAY’S probable starterRHP TREVOR BAUER (4-2, 2.97 ERA) » The 24-year-old is scheduled to make his 11th start of the 2015 campaign in the finale of this 3-game series against the Kansas City Royals. » Will be pitching on 5 days’ rest, following the Tribe’s 2-1 loss at Seattle on May 29...Bauer was charged with his second loss of the year, despite allowing just two runs (earned) in 7.0 innings of work (7.0IP, 6H, 1HR, 2R/ER, 3BB, 10SO)...Bauer has logged 7.0-or-more innings of work in 4 consecutive starts and is 2-1 with a 1.53 ERA (5ER/29.1IP) over that span. » Is making his second start against Kansas City this year, first at Kauffman Stadium...did not receive a decision in an 11-5 Tribe defeat on April 28, striking out just 2 in 6.0 innings pitched (6.0IP, 7H, 3R/ER, 1HR, 2BB, 3SO)...carries an 0-1 record with a 4.22 ERA (10ER/21.1IP) over 4 games/starts against the division foes.

  • PAGE 3 CLEVELAND INDIANS GAME NOTES wednesDAY, june 3, 2015

    HITTERS NOTES:

    vs.LHP:.255(168-659) 15HR,96RBI vs.RHP:.251(268-1069) 33HR,125RBI Home:.263(212-806) 20HR,114RBI Road:.243(224-922) 28HR,107RBI KC Series: 6-33,2 2B,3BB,2RBI,2R,1HR Trip:43-179,8 2B,1 3B,17BB,18RBI,18R,4HR RISP:.233(101-433) 11HR,169RBI

    MIKE AVILES

    #4

    vs.LHP:.246(14-57) 2HR,6RBI vs.RHP:.333(10-30) 1HR,1RBI Home:.200(8-40) 1HR,2RBI Road:.340(16-47) 2HR,5RBI KC Series: 0-0 Trip:1-11,1RBI,1R Streak:0G (0-5), 0HR, 0RBI RISP:.100(1-10) 0HR,3RBI

    Was on the Family Medical Emergency/Restricted List, 5/8-17 (missed 8 games) 3GS/7G @LF, 1GS/2G@CF,8GS/9G@SS,10GS/12G@3B(23-79, .291, 15r, 3hr, 7rbi , 22gs)

    6-33 w/runners on (0-4 PH)…Is 18-for-54 (.333) w/bases empty…has a .855 OPS vRHP …last 19 G since 4/26: 17-59, .288, 11R, 3 2B, 2HR, 5RBI (7th career 4-hit gm, 5/21@CWS)

    MICHAEL BOURN

    #24

    vs.LHP:.212(11-52) 0HR,4RBI vs.RHP:.260(27-104) 0HR,10RBI Home:.324(24-74) 0HR,9RBI Road:.171(14-82) 0HR,5RBI KC Series: 0-3,1BB Trip:3-15,2BB,1RBI,1R Streak:0G (0-5), 0HR, 0RBI RISP:.222(8-36) 0HR,14RBI

    41GS/46G in CF (hit safely in 26GS)… 15-for-62(.242) w/runners on …National League steals leader, 2009-11…last 22G since May 8: 21-65, .323, 3 2B, 3B, 8R, 8RBI, .392ob

    Leads all MLB players in steals (294) since ‘08 (next closest is R Davis/293)… Batting 7th: 10-27 (.370), 2 RS, 2 2B, 3B, 4RBI, 9 G…Since being taken out of lead-off

    on 4/26: 27-95 (.284) w/12 runs, 5 2B, 1 3B, 13 RBI in 32 games (.361OB/.719OPS)

    Has 37 steals in 58 attempts in his two seasons with Cleveland (3 DL trips). Is 4th hardest batters in the A.L. to double up (0GIDP in 156 at bats) Was tied for the A.L. lead in triples w/10 in ‘14 (1st Tribe batter to share or AL lead since ’95)

    MICHAEL BRANTLEY

    #23

    vs.LHP:.320(24-75) 2HR,18RBI vs.RHP:.289(28-97) 2HR,13RBI Home:.297(22-74) 3HR,13RBI Road:.306(30-98) 1HR,18RBI KC Series: 1-3,1BB,1RBI Trip:5-22,2BB,3RBI Streak:3G (3-13), 0HR, 2RBI RISP:.321(17-53) 1HR,24RBI

    ’14 AL All-Star (1st time)…Finished 3rd in the 2014 A.L. MVP voting/won Silver Slugger Became the first Indians player to amass 200 hits, 45+ 2B, 20+ HR, 20+SB in club hist 1 error in last 432 games played (T3rd in May RBI w/23) A.L. leaders: 2B (T1st, 17), PA/SO (1st, 15.3), AVG (.302, 13th), OB% ( 8th, .382), OPS (12th,

    .853), Ext base hits (T13th, 21),walks (T12th, 24), RBI (T13th, 31), OF assists (T4th, 5) Has reached base via hit or walk in 38 of 44 starts (hit safely in 34GS)

    32GS/37G in LF, 9G/8GS in CF, 4GS @DH (missed 6 G 4/8-15 w/lower back stiffness)…last 36G: 45-141 (.319), 19 R, 15 2B, 4HR, 27RBI…career-high 4 H on 4/26@DET(9th X)…Has hit in 25 of last 30 G since 4/30: 35-117(.299), 15 runs, 12 2B, 4HR, 25RBI, 8 multi-hit G

    Hitting .376 (32-85) w/runners on base, 4th in AL(career w/Men on base: .324,360-1111) Holds active /MLB successful SB streak at 19 (last CS 7/19/14)…Since May 18 he is 12-

    for-57 (.211) with 4 2B, 9 RBI over last 14 games LONNIE

    CHISENHALL #8

    vs.LHP:.250(10-40) 0HR,6RBI vs.RHP:.203(24-118) 4HR,13RBI Home:.193(16-83) 2HR,12RBI Road:.240(18-75) 2HR,7RBI KC Series: 1-4,1 2B Trip:2-10,1 2B,1BB,2R Streak:2G (2-6), 0HR, 0RBI RISP:.171(7-41) 2HR,17RBI

    45G/40GS at 3B this year (hit safely in 24GS)….3E/126TC(3rd in A.L. in range factor per 9.0IP /3.04)…13RBI in 26 May G…has a . 611 OPS vLHP /.617 OPS vRHP

    15-for-75 (.200) w/runners on… Hit safely in 18 of last 27 starts (25-for-106, .236, 16RS, 9 2B, 3B, 4HR, 15RBI)

    His 2014 .770 OPS was higher than other third base regulars from around MLB (Ar Ramirez, T Plouffe, M Carpenter, P Sandoval, E Longoria, C McGehee, C Headley, D Wright).

    Enjoyed a career game on June 9 at Texas (4th-player w/5H, 3HR, 9RBI in single game) Currently A.L.’s 2nd-hardest to double up with 0 GIDP in 158 at bats

    YAN GOMES

    #10

    vs.LHP:.125(2-16) 0HR,1RBI vs.RHP:.148(4-27) 0HR,0RBI Home:.143(2-14) 0HR,1RBI Road:.138(4-29) 0HR,0RBI KC Series: 0-4 Trip:2-17,1BB Streak:0G (0-6), 0HR, 0RBI RISP:.000(0-9) 0HR,1RBI

    Hit .273 (12-44) this spring with 5 R, 2 HR and 7 RBI in 18G In 2014 joined Carlos Santana, Victor Martinez, Sandy Alomar & John Romano as

    only Tribe catchers (at least 60% games at C) w/20+ HR, 60+ R and 70+ RBI in a season. After the season he earned his first career A.L. Silver Slugger Award, becoming the first

    catcher in club history to win the award outright (Victor Martinez shared the award in 2004).

    Was on the 15-day DL, 4/12-5/23, w/a sprained MCL in his right knee after being injured while catching at a play at HP the day before vDET (since return 3-23, RS, RBI, 2BB, 6G)

    He appeared in 4 games on a rehab assignment wAAA Columbus beginning on May 18 and was 4-for-12 (.333) with 2 runs scored and 1 RBI during his stint

    10GS at catcher, 1GS at DH this year (hit safely in 5GS)…3-for-9 in CS/SB this yearJASON KIPNIS

    #22 vs.LHP:.253(22-87) 2HR,9RBI vs.RHP:.390(48-123) 3HR,16RBI Home:.398(39-98) 4HR,16RBI Road:.277(31-112) 1HR,9RBI KC Series: 0-4,1R Trip:5-20,2 2B,2BB,3RBI,3R Streak:0G (0-7), 0HR, 0RBI RISP:.316(12-38) 2HR,19RBI

    AL leaders: WAR(2nd, 3.4) hits( 2nd, 70), Avg (2nd.333),runs created(2nd, 47), times on(1st, 97), OB%(5th,.404), 2B(T3rd, 16),R( 3rd, 38),TB( 4th,109), 1B(3rd, 45), OPS( 7th, .923), 3B( 2nd, 4), EB hits (T4th, 25), slg%( 9th, .519), multi-hit games (2nd, 22)

    Hitting .338(22-65)w/men on…batting 1st: 36GS, 54-147(.367), 33RS,16 2B, 5HR, 21RBI, 19BB, 1.076 OPS, Indians are 19-17 when he bats lead-off…2nd in AL in batting avg vs. RHP(.390)

    Hit .429(51-119) in May w/30R,15 2B, 3 3B, 4HR, 17RBI in 29 G to win AL POTM (.511/.706/ 1.217) - led AL in AVG/OB/SLG/OPS, R, H, doubles (19H over 7 G, 5/9-16, equaled club record)

    Had 52-game errorless streak dating back to last year snapped on 4/27…errorless in 84 of the last 86 G (2 errors in 215 chances /.991, 5th-best fielding pct in the AL this year)

    Has played all 454.0IP this year (16 multi-hit games in May)…2 lead-off HR this year 51GS at 2B (hit safely in 38 of 51GS)…has 1.042OPS vRHP…(last 37 G since 4/24 has

    scored 35 runs)…Since May 9 hit in 19 of 23 games: 39-94, .415, 24R,12 2B, 2HR, 13RBIMost extra base hits (22) in a single-month by an Indians 2B…51H in May most in club hist. 16th player w/50+H, 30R, 1.200OPS in MLB history…season-high4 RBI on 4/29(=CH)

    BRANDON MOSS

    #44

    vs.LHP:.293(17-58) 2HR,10RBI vs.RHP:.229(25-109) 7HR,19RBI Home:.229(16-70) 2HR,12RBI Road:.268(26-97) 7HR,17RBI KC Series: 3-4,1RBI,1R,1HR Trip:10-21,2 2B,1BB,2RBI,5R,2HR Streak:3G (8-14), 1HR, 1RBI RISP:.211(12-57) 2HR,21RBI

    Acquired from Oakland on Dec. 8 for INF Joey Wendle…Has 7 multi-RBI games 34GS/35G in RF, 8GS at 1B, 2 GS @DH in ‘15…last 35 G since 4/22: 37-for-132, .280, 9

    2B, 8HR, 27RBI…19-for-85, .224 w/runners on…since 5/13: 21-69, .304, 4 2B, 4HR, 8rbi, 18g Among A.L. leaders: SF (T6th, 3), HR (T16th, 9)…last 5 G since 5/28:10-21, 2 2b, 2hr, 2rbi 4/24@DET: 3-5, 2B, 2HR, 7RBI; 2nd player in CLE history w/2HR+7RBI G in 1st 20G w/ club

    5th career four-hit game on 5/31 at SEA…100th career HR 6/2 @KC(Guthrie) 2014 AS break rankings: HR (T5th, 21), RBI (6th, 66), extra-base hits (T6th, 40), SLG(8th, .530) Right hip surgery (torn labrum/impingement) on October 23 in Nashville, TN (Dr. Tom Byrd) Hit 2 HR w/ 5 RBI in the 2014 A.L. Wild Card game at Kansas City

    DAVID MURPHY

    #7

    vs.LHP:.000(0-2) 0HR,0RBI vs.RHP:.327(34-104) 3HR,14RBI Home:.333(17-51) 1HR,6RBI Road:.309(17-55) 2HR,8RBI KC Series: 0-1 Trip:3-9,2BB,3RBI Streak:0G (0-1), 0HR, 0RBI RISP:.321(9-28) 1HR,12RBI

    13GS at DH, 8GS in LF, 11G/5GS in RF(has reached safely in 20/26GS)…6-for-17 as PH Hit in 5 straight G 4/21-26…has 4 plate apps vs. LHP…is 13-44 (.295) w/runners on

    base this year (21-62/.339 w/bases empty)…12th career 4-hit game, 5/10vMIN Second career PH HR on 4/26 at DET (Soria); 3rd career 5/9 vs MIN(Hughes)

    Last 21 games since May 9: 22-54, .407, 6R, 3 2B, HR, 10RBI. Career .308 (101-328) hitter in Progressive Field (10HR, 52RBI, 104G)

    ROBERTO PEREZ

    #55

    vs.LHP:.083(2-24) 0HR,1RBI vs.RHP:.219(14-64) 4HR,10RBI Home:.171(7-41) 2HR,8RBI Road:.191(9-47) 2HR,3RBI SEA Series/Trip: 0-2 Streak:0G (0-4), 0HR, 0RBI RISP:.211(4-19) 1HR,8RBI

    Is T1st among MLB catchers with 21 walks in 2015(T3rd on the team) Has hit in just 11 of 32 starts but has 3 multi-hit games (career-high 3 walks, 5/10 vs MIN)

    Has 34G/32GS at C this year…9-for-29 CS/SB as C… Is 5-for-33(.152) w/ runners on base…equaled CH 3H on 4/18@MIN & 4/29 vKC (3RS is CH)....791OPS vRHP

    RYAN RABURN

    #9

    vs.LHP:.338(23-68) 3HR,14RBI vs.RHP:.100(1-10) 0HR,1RBI Home:.371(13-35) 1HR,8RBI Road:.256(11-43) 2HR,7RBI SEA Series/Trip: 3-10,1 3B,1BB,2RBI,1R,1HR Streak:1G (1-3), 1HR, 1RBI RISP:.292(7-24) 0HR,11RBI

    Battled a variety of ailments in 2014 (R wrist, L knee) and was never right physically 5-17w/RISP2outs… 2nd in A.L. in RBI as a PH (6)…

    Has 10GS at DH, 10G/7GS in RF, 8G/4GS in LF (4-for-12 w/6 RBI as a PH)… 23-70 (.329), 7 RS, 10 2B, 3HR, 13RBI last 32G (10PA vs.RHP in ‘15)…Is 13-for-44 (.295) w/men on base

    JOSE RAMIREZ

    #11

    vs.LHP:.180(9-50) 0HR,4RBI vs.RHP:.186(18-97) 1HR,4RBI Home:.136(8-59) 0HR,2RBI Road:.216(19-88) 1HR,6RBI KC Series: 0-3 Trip:4-20,2 2B,3R Streak:0G (0-3), 0HR, 0RBI RISP:.130(3-23) 0HR,6RBI

    42GS/43G at SS in 2015…8E in 150 TC…14-for-55 (.255) w/ runners on base. T1st in AL w/4sac hits,T10th in AL w/8SB…last 16G:11-54(.204), 10r, 3 2b, 5rbi, 8bb, 5sb

    Stole 10 bags om 2014(11att/4th among A.L. rookies) & was tied for the A.L. w/13 sac bunts …career-high 3 runs on 5/16 @TEX

    CARLOS SANTANA

    #41

    vs.LHP:.224(13-58) 0HR,6RBI vs.RHP:.232(23-99) 6HR,21RBI Home:.259(22-85) 2HR,16RBI Road:.194(14-72) 4HR,11RBI KC Series: 1-3,1 2B,1BB Trip:3-8,1 2B,3BB Streak:3G (4-11), 1HR, 3RBI RISP:.250(13-52) 1HR,19RBI

    Current A.L. leaders: Walks (1st, 40), on-base pct (7th, .383)…24GS in #4spot/20GS in #2) 43GS @1B, 1GS@DH (hit in 28GS, reached via H/BB in 38GS)16-for-83 (.193) w/ men on base, but 13-52 (.250) w/ RISP (4-18w/RISP & 2 outs). T1st in club history (Baerga) w/104HR by a switch-hitter (career #100 on 4/19 @MIN) Second career 4-BB game May 13 vs. STL ( 2nd in MLB in walks to B Harper-45)

    1st among all MLB hitters in walks 2011-15 (434, Votto second w/414)…reached all five times on May 3 vs. TOR (2-2, 3BB)…has 8RBI last 10 games & extra base hits in 6 of 8G

    Batting in two-hole: 20GS, 16-75, 14RS, 5 2B, 3HR, 14RBI, 18BB (.213/.361/.400/.761)

    NICK SWISHER

    #33

    vs.LHP:.281(9-32) 1HR,5RBI vs.RHP:.176(9-51) 1HR,2RBI Home:.243(9-37) 1HR,2RBI Road:.196(9-46) 1HR,5RBI KC Series: 0-4 Trip:1-13,1BB,1RBI,1R Streak:0G (0-8), 0HR, 1RBI RISP:.120(3-25) 0HR,5RBI

    Activated from 15-day DL on 5/3…Spent the first month of 2015 rehabbing from bilateral knee surgery last Aug. (20GS @DH, 1GS @RF, 18-83, 6RS, 4 2B, 2HR, 7BB, 7RBI)

    Began rehab @AAA Columbus, 4/24 & hit .375 (9-24) w/2 2B, 1HR & 5RBI in 6 G for the Clips…is 3-for-33 w/runners on base for Cleveland this year (1-for-last-13 over 4 G)

    6th in MLB (726) in walks since 2006…5th-career four-hit game, 5/9 vs MIN Appeared in just 97 games in 2014, his first season not playing in at least 145 G since 2005 His best month was July, hitting .257 (26-101) with 6 2B, 3 HR and 16 RBI (T11th in July RBI) Last 16 games since May 15: 12-53, .226, 3 2B, 2HR, 7RBI, 4RS, 6BB, .300OB/.696 OPS

  • PAGE 4 CLEVELAND INDIANS GAME NOTES wednesday, june 3, 2015 BULLPEN INFORMATION

    W L ERA G SV/OPP IR/S 1st Bat/Retired IP H R ER BB SO HR 4 8 3.22 51 13/18 101/35 166/115 156.2 141 71 56 61 157 17

    PITCHING NOTES:

    vs.ALL:.251(436-1739)51HR vs.LH:.228(179-786)20HR vs.RH:.270(257-953)31HR Home:10-14-4, 4.71ERA (216.0IP,113ER) Road:15-12-9, 3.37ERA (238.0IP,89ER)

    ADAMS AUSTIN

    #49 vs.ALL:.095(2-21)1HR vs.LH:.000(0-4)0HR vs.RH:.118(2-17)1HR Home:0-0-0, 1.93ERA (4.2IP,1ER)2G Road:0-0-1, 0.00ERA (2.0IP,0ER)2G Last Save:5/31/2015 @SEA

    Opened season with MLB club; optioned to AAA on 4/10; recalled on 4/12 (Gomes DL) and back again on 4/18…In his 4th stint with the big league club after 5/28 recall…2015 debut 4/12 vDET (career-high 2.2IP, 2H, 1R/ER, 1BB, 1K)…Has worked at least 2.0IP in 3 of 4 outings for CLE… With Columbus: 1-2-3SV w/a 5.40 ERA in 10 games (8.1IP, 9H, 5R/ER, 7BB, 13K).

    Recalled for 4th time on 5/28 and has appeared in 1 game, recording his first career save in 6-3, 12.0IP at Seattle (1.0IP, 1K) CODY ALLEN

    #37

    vs.ALL:.247(22-89)1HR vs.LH:.159(7-44)0HR vs.RH:.333(15-45)1HR Home:0-1-4, 6.75ERA (9.1IP,7ER)10G Road:0-1-8, 3.86ERA (14.0IP,6ER)14G Last Win:8/31/2014 @KC Last Save:6/2/2015 @KC

    Is 12-for-13 (92.3%) in save chances in 2015 ( 9th in A.L. w/12SV’s)…Career-high 4ER all’d on 4/11 vs DET & 4/20 @CWS …Allowed ER in 6 of 24 games (T11th in apps in AL) Lefties are 7-44 (.159) w/18K’s (batters 13-41 (.317) w/runners on; 12-33 (.364) w/RISP)…Last 17 games: 17.1IP, 11H, 5R/4ER, 6BB, 24K…Is 4th in the AL in relief K’s (34) Last 12 games since May 13: 12.1IP, 6H, 2R/ER, 4BB, 17K, batters are 6-for-42 (.143) against him…last 5 games: 5.0IP, 3H, 0R, 0BB, 7K

    NICK HAGADONE

    #50

    vs.ALL:.260(20-77)3HR vs.LH:.211(8-38)1HR vs.RH:.308(12-39)2HR Home:0-1-0, 3.48ERA (10.1IP,4ER)11G Road:0-0-0, 4.15ERA (8.2IP,4ER)13G Last Win:6/3/2014 vBOS Last Save:5/7/2012 vCWS

    Season debut 4/8 @HOU (all’d runs in 7 of 24GP)…Lefties are 8-for-38 off him with 2BB and 11K’s…Over his last 10 games: 8.2IP, 8H, 2R/ER, 0BB, 6 K…Batters are 9-for-40 off him w/bases empty (11-for-37, .297 w/runners on)…Has 5 holds on year…last 8 games: 7.1IP, 4H, 1ER, 5K…T11th in the AL in games pitched (24)…last 4 games: 2.1IP, 1H, 0R, 0BB, 1K

    Settled into role last year, his 4th straight splitting between Cleveland and Columbus…ERA from June 25 thru end of the was 2.14 (21.0IP, 14H, 5R/ER, 4BB, 23K, .192AVG) ZACH

    McALLISTER #34

    vs.ALL:.295(36-122)2HR vs.LH:.269(14-52)0HR vs.RH:.314(22-70)2HR Home:0-1-0, 3.50ERA (18.0IP,7ER)11G Road:1-1-0, 3.18ERA (11.1IP,4ER)9G Last Win:5/31/2015 @SEA

    Made first start of the season on April 10 vs. Detroit in home opening game (4.0+IP, career-high 13H allowed, 5R/ER, 5K, HR)…Has 11.2IP scoreless IP streak, 4/27-5/15 (2015 relief-best) Worked a career-high 3.2IP in relief on 4/14 vs. CWS (3.2IP, 4H, 1R/ER) in relief of Carrasco (Jaw)…Relief 2015: 2.13 ERA (25.1IP, 23H, 6R/ER, 9BB, 29K)…RH batters hitting .314 / LH

    batters hitting .269 and batters are hitting .345 (20-58) with runners on base…last 15G: 17.0IP, 12H, 3R/ER, 5BB,23K (T8th in relief IP at 25.1IP, has 3 holds)…T9th in AL relief SO (29) MARC

    RZEPCZYNSKI #35

    vs.ALL:.260(13-50)1HR vs.LH:.243(9-37)1HR vs.RH:.308(4-13)0HR Home:1-2-0, 7.50ERA (6.0IP,5ER)13G Road:0-0-0, 0.00ERA (7.1IP,0ER)13G Last Win:5/3/2015 vTOR Last Save:9/20/2014 @MIN

    1 pitch/0.2IP in debut of 4/8 at HOU (all’d R in 6 of 26 GP in ’15)… In his 3 years w/CLE only 21 of 98 (21.4%) of his inherited runners have scored…last 16 games: 8.0IP, 8H, 3R/1ER, 7K Lefties are 9-for-37 w/2BB-10K (has 8 holds-T9th in AL; two blown saves; last 5/25 vTEX)…Batters are 10-for-28 w/runners on; 5-for-21 with RISP....Last 23G (12.1IP, 11H, 5R/3ER,

    4BB, 14K)…T1st in A.L. in games(26)…Allowed first HR as an Indian to a left-handed batter (159 at bats w/CLE), his first since 6/12/12, on 5/15 vs. STL (Carpenter) BRYAN SHAW

    #27

    vs.ALL:.243(17-70)3HR vs.LH:.158(3-19)1HR vs.RH:.275(14-51)2HR Home:0-0-0, 2.25ERA (8.0IP,2ER)11G Road:0-1-0, 2.89ERA (9.1IP,3ER)14G Last Win:8/26/2014 @CWS Last Save:5/11/2014 @TB

    Has 6 holds ( T5th in A.L. w/25 app’s) in 2015 and has allowed runs in 6 of 25 G this year (blown save on 4/11 vs. DET; 0.1IP, 3H, 1R/ER)…6 of 20 inherited runners have scored…Last 20G: 15.0IP, 10H, 3ER, 14K…Batters are 11-for-34 (.324) w/ men on(.167, 6-36 w/bases empty)…walk-off HR to Plouffe on 4/17 @MIN…equaled career-high w/4K on 4/30vTOR

    Last 15G in 2015: 1.54ERA, 12.0IP, 7H, 5R-2ER, 4BB, 12K…Has just 2 holds since 4/22…Led AL in relief games in 2014. RYAN WEBB

    #54

    vs.ALL:.120(6-50)1HR vs.LH:.000(0-21)0HR vs.RH:.207(6-29)1HR Home:0-0-0, 1.93ERA (9.1IP,2ER)6G Road:1-0-0, 0.00ERA (6.0IP,0ER)5G Last Win:5/15/2015 @TEX

    Signed with Cleveland as a free agent on 4/13 after electing free agency after outright that day by the LA Dodgers, who acquired him from Baltimore four days earlier. Ryan appeared in 5 games for AAA Columbus, posting a record of 1-1 w/a 1.13 ERA (8.0IP, 4H, 1R/ER, 5K, .148AVG) while limiting right-handed hitters to an .056 (1-18) average against. Promoted to Cleveland on 4/29…3.0IP in Indians debut was T-2nd-longest out of his MLB career (first 3 games/6.0 scoreless IP to begin year; batters are 3-36 (.083) w/bases empty;

    3-14 (.214)w/men on, 2-10(.200) w/RISP…Worked at least 1.0IP in 10 of 11G(1.2 or more IP in 4/10G)…Scoreless outings in 9 of 11G (LHH 0-21, 3BB, 4K)…last 6G: 7.1IP, 1H, 0R, 8K

    PITCHING BY MONTH PITCHER APRIL MAY JUNE JULY Adams, A. 0-0-0, 1.93 ERA (4.2IP, 1ER) 0-0-1, 0.00 ERA (2IP, 0ER) - - Allen, C. 0-2-4, 11.57 ERA (7IP, 9ER) 0-0-7, 2.35 ERA (15.1IP, 4ER) 0-0-1, 0.00 ERA (1IP, 0ER) - Atchison, S. 0-1-0, 5.63 ERA (8IP, 5ER) 1-0-0, 5.87 ERA (7.2IP, 5ER) - - Bauer, T. 2-0-0, 1.80 ERA (25IP, 5ER) 2-2-0, 3.72 ERA (38.2IP, 16ER) - - Hagadone, N. 0-0-0, 2.16 ERA (8.1IP, 2ER) 0-1-0, 5.23 ERA (10.1IP, 6ER) 0-0-0, 0.00 ERA (0.1IP, 0ER) - Kluber, C. 0-3-0, 4.24 ERA (34IP, 16ER) 3-2-0, 2.95 ERA (42.2IP, 14ER) - - McAllister, Z. 0-1-0, 4.60 ERA (15.2IP, 8ER) 1-1-0, 1.98 ERA (13.2IP, 3ER) - - Rzepczynski, M. 0-0-0, 6.75 ERA (5.1IP, 4ER) 1-2-0, 1.17 ERA (7.2IP, 1ER) 0-0-0, 0.00 ERA (0.1IP, 0ER) - Shaw, B. 0-1-0, 3.68 ERA (7.1IP, 3ER) 0-0-0, 1.86 ERA (9.2IP, 2ER) 0-0-0, 0.00 ERA (0.1IP, 0ER) - Webb, R. 0-0-0, 0.00 ERA (3IP, 0ER) 1-0-0, 1.46 ERA (12.1IP, 2ER) - -

    2015 vs. KC Royals Career vs. KC Royals W-L-S ERA G IP H R/ER BB SO W-L-S ERA IP/ER Adams, Austin 0-0-0 0.00 - 0.0 - 0/0 - - 0-0-0 0.00 1.2/0 Allen, Cody 0-0-2 0.00 3 3.0 2 1/0 1 4 4-1-5 3.15 20.0/7 Bauer, Trevor 0-0-0 4.50 1 6.0 7 3/3 2 2 0-1-0 4.22 21.1/10 Hagadone, Nicholas 0-0-0 20.25 4 1.1 4 3/3 1 1 0-0-0 8.18 11.0/10 Kluber, Corey 0-2-0 6.75 2 12.0 17 11/9 4 12 4-3-0 3.48 72.1/28 McAllister, Zachary 0-0-0 0.00 3 4.1 1 0/0 - 6 3-3-0 4.58 35.1/18 Rzepczynski, Marc 0-0-0 6.75 5 2.2 4 2/2 1 4 0-2-0 5.60 17.2/11 Salazar, Danny 1-1-0 5.54 2 13.0 11 8/8 - 16 3-4-0 5.40 40.0/24 Shaw, Bryan 0-0-0 6.75 4 1.1 1 1/1 - 1 1-2-0 3.18 17.0/6 Webb, Ryan 0-0-0 0.00 1 1.0 - 0/0 1 - 0-0-0 3.18 5.2/2 INDIANS 3-4-2 5.16 7 61.0 68 38/35 15 61 - - -

    RELIEF EFFECTIVENESS ----------------------------------------Last Appearance------------------- ----First Batter---- -------Saves------- Inherited Runners Pitcher Date OPP(score) IP H R/ER BB SO HR DEC Faced Retired SV Chances IR Scored Adams, A. 5/31 @SEA(6-3) 1.0 - 0/0 - 1 - SV 4 3 1 1 4 - Allen, C. 6/2 @KC(2-1) 1.0 - 0/0 - 2 - SV 24 19 12 13 5 - Atchison, S. 5/27 vs.TEX(12-3) 1.0 3 2/2 - 1 1 ND 19 14 - 1 13 5 Hagadone, N. 6/2 @KC(2-1) 0.1 - 0/0 - - - ND 24 16 - - 16 4 Marcum, S. 4/12 vs.DET(5-8) 5.0 3 1/1 3 4 1 ND 1 1 - - 1 - McAllister, Z. 5/31 @SEA(6-3) 1.0 - 0/0 2 - - W 19 14 - - 10 6 Rzepczynski, M. 6/2 @KC(2-1) 0.1 - 0/0 - 1 - ND 26 17 - 2 21 7 Shaw, B. 6/2 @KC(2-1) 0.1 - 0/0 - 1 - ND 25 17 - 1 20 6 Webb, R. 5/31 @SEA(6-3) 1.0 - 0/0 - 1 - ND 11 7 - - 4 3 TEAM 6/2 @KC(2-1) 2.0 - 0/0 - 4 - SV 166 115 13 18 101 35

  • PAGE 5 CLEVELAND INDIANS GAME NOTES wednesdaY, june 3, 2015

    GAMES STARTED PLAYER C 1B 2B 3B SS LF RF CF DH M. Aviles - - - 10 8 3 - 1 - M. Bourn - - - - - - - 41 - M. Brantley - - - - - 32 - 8 4 L. Chisenhall - - - 40 - - - - - Y. Gomes 10 - - - - - - - 1 B. Hayes 9 - - - - - - - - T. Holt - - - - - - - 1 - J. Kipnis - - 51 - - - - - - B. Moss - 8 - - - - 34 - 2 D. Murphy - - - - - 8 5 - 13 R. Perez 32 - - - - - - - - R. Raburn - - - - - 5 6 - 10 J. Ramirez - - - - 42 - - - - G. Sands - - - - - 2 5 - - C. Santana - 43 - - - - - - 1 N. Swisher - - - - - - 1 - 20 Z. Walters - - - 1 1 1 - - - LINE-UPS USED: 43 in 51 games

    STARTS IN THE ORDER

    PLAYER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 M. Aviles - 11 - - - 4 4 1 2 M. Bourn 15 - - - - - 8 5 13 M. Brantley - - 44 - - - - - - L. Chisenhall - - - 2 4 7 18 9 - Y. Gomes - - - - 2 7 2 - - B. Hayes - - - - - - - 8 1 T. Holt - - - - - - - - 1 J. Kipnis 36 9 6 - - - - - - B. Moss - - - 12 21 5 6 - - D. Murphy - 1 1 2 6 13 3 - - R. Perez - - - - - - 1 25 6 R. Raburn - - - 11 3 4 3 - - J. Ramirez - 10 - - - - 4 1 27 G. Sands - - - - 3 2 1 1 - C. Santana - 20 - 24 - - - - - N. Swisher - - - - 12 9 - - - Z. Walters - - - - - - 1 1 1 Pitchers - - - - - - - - -

    SCORING BY INNING 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th EXTRA TOTAL RUNS Indians 26 24 34 26 30 31 23 20 10 3 227 Opponent 35 17 23 23 23 34 27 14 24 2 222

    Multi-hit Game Multi-RBI GM HR TYPE/LAST HOME RUN PLAYER 2 3 4 5+ ‘15 High Last MH 2 3 4 5+ ’15 High solo 2run 3run GS Last HR M. Aviles 3 1 1 - 4, 5/21 @CWS 5/21 @CWS 1 - - - 2, 4/27 vKC 2 1 - - 5/21/15 @CWS(Danks) M. Bourn 11 1 - - 3, 5/27 vTEX 5/31 @SEA 3 - - -2,3x, 5/27 vTEX - - - - 7/5/14 vKC(Guthrie) M. Brantley 9 3 1 - 4, 4/25 @DET 5/28 @SEA 5 - - -2,5x, 5/20 @CWS 2 2 - - 5/14/15 vSTL(Wacha) L. Chisenhall 5 2 - -3,2x, 5/27 vTEX 5/27 vTEX 2 2 - -3,2x, 5/27 vTEX 2 1 1 - 5/27/15 vTEX(Bass) Y. Gomes 1 - - - 2, 5/31 @SEA 5/31 @SEA - - - - 1, 5/26 vTEX - - - - 9/24/14 vKC(Vargas) B. Hayes - - - -1,5x, 5/15 @TEX - - 1 - - 3, 5/1 vTOR 2 - 1 - 5/15/15 @TEX(Fujikawa) J. Kipnis 14 6 2 -4,2x, 5/15 @TEX5/31 @SEA 5 - 1 - 4, 4/29 vKC 3 1 1 - 5/26/15 vTEX(Rodriguez) B. Moss 7 3 1 - 4, 5/31 @SEA 6/2 @KC 3 3 - 1 7, 4/24 @DET 6 1 2 - 6/2/15 @KC(Guthrie) D. Murphy 7 - 1 - 4, 5/10 vMIN 5/31 @SEA 3 - - -2,3x, 5/31 @SEA 2 1 - - 5/9/15 vMIN(Hughes) R. Perez 1 2 - - 3,2x, 4/29 vKC 4/29 vKC 2 1 - - 3, 5/25 vTEX 3 - 1 - 5/25/15 vTEX(Klein) R. Raburn 6 1 - - 3, 4/30 vTOR 5/26 vTEX 3 - - - 2,3x, 5/3 vTOR 3 - - - 5/31/15 @SEA(Happ) J. Ramirez 7 - - -2,7x, 5/28 @SEA5/28 @SEA - - - -1,8x, 5/25 vTEX 1 - - - 4/9/15 @HOU(Wojciechowski) G. Sands 1 1 - - 3, 4/11 vDET 4/15 vCWS 1 - 1 - 4, 4/11 vDET - 1 - - 5/30/15 @SEA(Elias) C. Santana 8 - - -2,8x, 5/31 @SEA5/31 @SEA 2 2 - -3,2x, 5/27 vTEX 5 - 1 - 5/27/15 vTEX(Lewis) N. Swisher 2 1 1 - 4, 5/9 vMIN 5/27 vTEX - 1 - - 3, 5/15 @TEX 2 - - - 5/27/15 vTEX(Lewis)

    INDIANS BATTING BY MONTH HITTER APRIL MAY JUNE JULY M. Aviles .250 (10-40) 2HR, 3RBI, 15G .298 (14-47) HR, 4RBI, 15G .000 (0-0), G - M. Bourn .200 (16-80), 5RBI, 20G .301 (22-73), 9RBI, 26G .000 (0-3), G - M. Brantley .339 (20-59), 7RBI, 15G .282 (31-110) 4HR, 23RBI, 28G .333 (1-3), RBI, G - L. Chisenhall .221 (15-68) HR, 6RBI, 20G .209 (18-86) 3HR, 13RBI, 26G .250 (1-4), G - Y. Gomes .150 (3-20), 5G .158 (3-19), RBI, 5G .000 (0-4), G - B. Hayes .091 (1-11) HR, RBI, 4G .190 (4-21) 2HR, 5RBI, 10G - - T. Holt - .000 (0-3), 2G - - J. Kipnis .218 (19-87) HR, 8RBI, 21G .429 (51-119) 4HR, 17RBI, 29G .000 (0-4), G - B. Moss .238 (15-63) 4HR, 14RBI, 19G .240 (24-100) 4HR, 14RBI, 26G .750 (3-4) HR, RBI, G - D. Murphy .256 (11-43) 2HR, 2RBI, 17G .371 (23-62) HR, 12RBI, 25G .000 (0-1), G - R. Perez .209 (9-43) 3HR, 6RBI, 16G .156 (7-45) HR, 5RBI, 18G - - R. Raburn .371 (13-35) HR, 8RBI, 15G .256 (11-43) 2HR, 7RBI, 21G - - J. Ramirez .175 (11-63) HR, 2RBI, 18G .198 (16-81), 6RBI, 24G .000 (0-3), G - G. Sands .348 (8-23), 4RBI, 9G 1.000 (1-1) HR, 2RBI, G - - C. Santana .239 (17-71) 3HR, 11RBI, 21G .217 (18-83) 3HR, 16RBI, 22G .333 (1-3), G - N. Swisher - .228 (18-79) 2HR, 7RBI, 23G .000 (0-4), G - Z. Walters - .059 (1-17), RBI, 7G - -

    2015 vs. KC Royals G. AB R H HR RBI AVG M. Aviles 4 9 3 4 1 3 .444 M. Bourn 7 18 3 4 - 4 .222 M. Brantley 7 25 4 6 1 3 .240 L. Chisenhall 7 23 5 8 1 2 .348 Y. Gomes 1 4 - - - - .000 B. Hayes 3 7 - 1 - 1 .143 J. Kipnis 7 28 3 6 1 5 .214 B. Moss 7 27 5 8 3 7 .296 D. Murphy 6 10 - 1 - 2 .100 R. Perez 4 9 3 3 1 2 .333 R. Raburn 6 12 - 1 - 1 .083 J. Ramirez 5 19 - 1 - - .053 G. Sands 1 2 - - - - .000 C. Santana 7 19 6 4 1 2 .211 N. Swisher 4 15 1 1 - - .067 INDIANS 7 227 33 48 9 32 .211

    Career vs. KC Royals AVG AB H HR RBI M. Aviles .263 118 31 3 17 M. Bourn .247 150 37 2 19 M. Brantley .335 334 112 6 45 L. Chisenhall .265 162 43 4 14 Y. Gomes .252 107 27 4 11 B. Hayes .143 7 1 - 1 J. Kipnis .245 233 57 7 36 B. Moss .271 85 23 3 13 D. Murphy .236 220 52 6 34 R. Perez .238 21 5 1 2 R. Raburn .227 216 49 12 25 J. Ramirez .203 64 13 - 2 G. Sands .000 2 - - - C. Santana .316 263 83 16 53 N. Swisher .230 335 77 13 46

  • PAGE 6 CLEVELAND INDIANS GAME NOTES wednesday, june 3, 20152015 HIGHS & LOWS

    CLEVELAND TEAM BATTINGRuns, Game ................................. 13 April 24 at DETRuns, Inning ................................. 8 May 27 vs. TEX (3rd inning)Most Hits, Game (9 inn.) ............... 17 May 27 vs. TEXMost Hits, Game (Extras) ............. 18 May 31 at SEA (12.0IP)Fewest Hits, Game ....................... 3 three times, last May 29 at SEAHits, Inning .................................... 7 May 27 vs. TEX (3rd inning)Doubles ........................................ 5 two times, May 24 vs. CINTriples ........................................... 1 8 times, last May 29 at SEAHome Runs ................................... 3 three times, last May 27 vs. TEXHome Runs, Both Clubs ............... 5 two times, last May 27 vs. TEXConsecutive Games w/HR ........... 7 May 3-10Consecutive Games 0HR ............. 5 April 10-15 Consecutive Scoreless Innings .... 12.0 April 6-8 at HOUExtra-Base Hits ............................. 7 two times, last May 27 vs. TEXTotal Bases ................................... 31 May 27 vs. TEXStolen Bases ................................ 3 May 20 at CWSWalks (9 inn.) ................................ 8 May 22 vs. CINWalks (Extras) .............................. 7 May 31 at SEA (12.0IP)Strikeouts (9 inn.) ......................... 14 two times, last May 12 vs. STLStrikeouts (Extras) ........................ 10 April 17 at MIN (11IP)Left On Base (9 inn.) .................... 13 two times, May 24 vs. CINLeft On Base (Extras) ................... 17 May 31 at SEA (12.0IP)

    CLEVELAND INDIVIDUAL BATTINGHits ............................................... 4 seven times, last Moss, May 31@SEA (12)Runs ............................................. 3 ve times, last Ramirez, May 16 at TEXDoubles ........................................ 2 7 times, last Kipnis, May 31@SEA (12)Triples ........................................... 1 8 times, last Raburn, May 29 at SEAHome Runs ................................... 2 Moss, April 24 at DETConsecutive Games w/HR ........... 1 severalExtra-Base Hits ............................. 3 Moss, April 24 at DETTotal Bases ................................... 10 Moss, April 24 at DETRBI ................................................ 7 Moss, April 24 at DETStolen Bases ................................ 2 ve times, last Ramirez, May 20 at CWSWalks ............................................ 4 Santana, May 13 vs. STLStrikeouts ...................................... 4 Moss, 4/14 vs CWS & Swisher, 5/14 vsSTLHit Streak ...................................... 11 Brantley, 4/30-5/12 Errors ............................................ 2 Walters (3B), May 15 at TEX

    CLEVELAND TEAM PITCHINGStrikeouts, 9.0 IP .......................... 19 May 13 vs. STL(club record for 9.0IP)Strikeouts, Extra IP ....................... 11 May 31 at SEA (12.0IP)Walks, 9.0IP .................................. 7 three times, April 25 at DETWalks, Extra IP ............................. 6 May 31 at SEA (12.0IP)Fewest Walks ............................... 0 four times, last May 23 vs. CINMost Runs Allowed, Game ........... 11 April 28 vs. KC & May 2 vs. TORMost Runs Allowed, Inning ........... 6 3 times, last 4th inn, May 3 vs. TORFewest Hits Allowed, Game .......... 1 April 9 at HOU & May 13 vs. STLMost Hits Allowed, 9.0IP Game ....18 two times, April 28 vs. KCMost Hits Allowed, Extras ............. 7 May 18 at CWSMost Hits Allowed, Inning ............. 6 9th inning, April 20 at CWSStolen Bases Allowed ................... 5 April 25 at DETHome Runs ................................... 3 three times, last May 25 vs. TEXConsec. Scoreless IP (team) ........ 17.0 two times, last 5/12-14

    CLEVELAND INDIVIDUAL PITCHINGInnings, Starter ............................. 9.0 Kluber, May 18 at CWSFewest Innings, Starter ................. 0.0 Carrasco, April 14 vs. CWS (injury)Innings, Reliever ........................... 5.0 Marcum, April 12 vs. DETConsec. Scoreless IP(starter) ....... 13.0 Kluber, 5/7-18Consec. Scoreless IP (relief) ........ 11.2 McAllister, 4/25-5/18 Consec. Scoreless Apps (relief) ...9 McAllister, 4/27-5/15 Winning Streak, Starter ................ 3 3X, Kluber, 5/13-28 & Carrasco, 5/21-6/2(current)Winning Streak, Reliever .............. 1 four times Losing Streak ................................ 5 Kluber, 4/6-5/7 Strikeouts, Starter ......................... 18 Kluber, May 13 vs. STLStrikeouts, Reliever ...................... 4 Marcum, 4/12 vs. DET; Shaw, 4/30 vs TORWalks, Starter ............................... 5 Bauer, April 9 at HOUWalks, Reliever ............................. 3 two times, Marcum, April 12 vs. DETRuns Allowed, Starter ................... 7 two times, last Marcum, May 25 vs. TEXEarned Runs Allowed, Starter ......7 Marcum, May 25 vs. TEXHits Allowed, Starter ..................... 13 two times, last Kluber, April 22 at CWSHome Runs Allowed, Starter ........ 2 ve times, last Kluber, May 28 at SEAPitches .......................................... 115 two times, Salazar, 4/24 @DET; 5/5@KCConsec. Save Conversions ..........9 Allen, 4/29-6/2 (current)

    CLEVELAND MISCELLANEOUSWinning Streak ............................. 6 May 19-24 Losing Streak ................................ 4 two times, 4/10-14 & April 25-28Longest Game, Innings ................ 12.0 May 31 at SEA Longest Game, Time, 9 IP ............ 4:16 April 11 vs. DETLongest Game, Time, Xtra............ 4:36 May 31 at SEA (12.0IP)Shortest Game, Time.................... 2:24 May 29 at SEALargest Crowd, Home ................... 35,789 April 10 vs. DETLargest Crowd, Road .................... 43,753 April 6 at HOUWinning Margin ............................. 12 April 24 at DET (13-1)Losing Margin ............................... 7 May 2 vs. TOR (4-11)Largest De cit Overcome in Win ....... 5 May 3 vs. TOR (1-6)Largest Lead Blown in Loss ......... 3 two times, last May 26 vs. TEX (3-0)Team Errors .................................. 3 April 27 vs. KCDouble Plays Turned (team), 9IP .....2 severalDouble Plays Turned (team), extra ...2 May 18 at CWS Double Plays Hit Into (team), 9IP .3 May 3 vs. TORDouble Plays Hit Into (team),extra 3 May 31 at SEA (12.0IP)

    CLEVELAND TEAM BATTING/PITCHING/FIELDINGShutout, Offensive (2 in 2015) ..............April 22, 2015 at Chicago-ALConsecutive Team Shutouts .................June 29 (@SEA) & June 30, 2014 (@LAD)Triple Play Turned ................................July 1, 2014 at Los Angeles-NL (LF-C-2B, 32nd all-time)Hit Into Triple Play ................................Sept 1, 2000 vs. Baltimore (Alomar, 26th all-time)Twenty Hits, One Game .......................May 14, 2014 at Toronto (22)Twenty Runs, One Game .....................April 18, 2009 at New York-ALFive (or more) Runs, One IP (4 in ‘15) .....May 27, 2015 vs. Texas (3rd inning/8 runs)Ten Runs, One Inning ...........................Sept 30, 2012 vs. KC (5th inning)Ten Runs Allowed, One Inning .............August 6, 2012 vs. Minnesota (2nd inning)Ten Hits, One Inning .............................April 8, 2011 at Seattle (4th)Seven Home Runs, One Game ............April 30, 2013 vs. PhiladelphiaNo-Hitter, Against ..................................Ervin Santana, July 27, 2011 vs. LA AngelsPerfect Game, Against ..........................NeverOne Hitter Against, Team ......................June 30, 2014 at LA Dodgers CG/SHO One Hitter, Against ................Dan Haren, April 12, 2011 at LA AngelsComplete Game/SHO, Against .............Andrew Albers, August 12, 2013 at Minnesota

    CLEVELAND INDIVIDUAL BATTINGSix Hits, One Game ..............................Omar Vizquel, August 31, 2004 at New York-ALNine RBI, One Game ............................Lonnie Chisenhall, June 9, 2014 at TexasFive Runs, One Game ..........................Michael Brantley, June 9, 2014 at TexasLast Cycle .............................................Travis Hafner, August 14, 2003 at MinnesotaLast Cycle, Opponent ...........................Mark Teixeira, August 17, 2004 at TexasThree Home Runs ................................Lonnie Chisenhall, June 9, 2014 at TexasThree Home Runs, Opponent ..............Dan Johnson, Oct 3, 2012 vs. Chicago-AL Grand Slam Home Run (0 in 2015) ......Nick Swisher, June 19, 2014 vs. LA Angels Lead-off Home Run (2 in 2015) ............Jason Kipnis, May 26, 2015 vs. Texas (Rodriguez)Walk-off Home Run (0 in 2015) ............Mike Aviles, August 15, 2014 vs. BaltimorePinch-Hit Home Run (2 in 2015) ...........David Murphy, May 9, 2015 vs. Minnesota Inside-the-Park HR ...............................Carlos Santana, August 31, 2013 at DetroitHome Run, both sides of plate .............Carlos Santana, July 27, 2014 at Kansas CityFour Doubles, One Game ....................Sandy Alomar, June 6, 1997 at Boston Steal of Home .......................................David Dellucci, May 27, 2008 vs. Chicago-AL

    CLEVELAND TEAM PITCHINGShutout, Defensive (2 in 2015) .............May 13, 2015 vs. St. LouisConsecutive Shutouts, Team ................July 27-28, 2013 vs. Texas19 strikeouts, Team (9.0IP) ...................May 13, 2015 vs. St. Louis (club record, 9.0IP)Six Home Runs Allowed, game ............August 1, 2003 at Texas (7 allowed)Inside-the-Park HR, allowed .................Jeff Baker, June 17, 2008 at ColoradoGrand Slam, allowed (1 in 2015) ..........Devon Travis, May 3, 2015 vs. Toronto (Bauer)Walk-off HR, allowed (1 in 2015) ..........Trevor Plouffe, April 17, 2015 at Minnesota (Shaw)Lead-off HR, allowed (2 in 2015) ..........Brian Dozer, May 10, 2015 vs. Minnesota (Salazar)20 runs, allowed ...................................June 4, 2002 at Minnesota (23 runs)20 hits, allowed .....................................September 1, 2014 vs. Detroit

    CLEVELAND INDIVIDUAL PITCHINGNo-Hitter/Perfect Game ........................Len Barker, May 15, 1981 vs. TorontoComplete Game ...................................Carlos Carrasco, May 17, 2015 at TexasCG, Shutout ..........................................Carlos Carrasco, September 17, 2014 at Houston(2H)CG, One-Hitter ......................................Josh Tomlin, June 28, 2014 at Seattle18 Strikeouts, One Game .....................Corey Kluber, May 13, 2015 vs. St. LouisFour Strikeouts, One Inning ..................Justin Masterson, August 4, 2011 at BostonConsecutive Ind. Shutouts ....................Jeremy Sowers, July 22-28, 2006Two Consecutive Complete Gms .........Roberto Hernandez, Sept 3-10, 2010Consecutive Indiv CGs, Team Games ..April 15-16, 2010 (David Huff/Mitch Talbot)Position Player Pitching ........................Ryan Raburn, August 8, 2013 vs. Detroit Four Home Runs, Allowed ....................Brett Myers, April 4, 2013 at Toronto

    CLEVELAND MISCELLANEOUSTen-Game Winning Streak ...................Sept 19-29, 2013 (ended season)Ten-Game Losing Streak ......................July 27-August 7, 2012 (11 games)Sweep of Opponent in Series (1) .........May 22-24, 2015 vs. Cincinnati (3 games)Swept by Opponent in Series (1) ..........April 10-12, 2015 vs. Detroit (3 games)Victory when Trailing after 8.0IP (1)......May 16, 2015 at Texas Loss when Winning after 8.0IP (1) .......April 20, 2015 at Chicago-AL1-0 win/1-0 loss ....................................W-Sept. 26, 2014 vTB / L-August 13, 2014 vARI (G2)

    LAST TIME IT HAPPENDED

    G/GS Record cERA IP ER CS SBA CS% PBGOMES 10/10 6-4 3.24 91.2 33 3 9 33.3% -HAYES 14/9 5-4 4.96 85.1 47 1 8 12.5% -PEREZ 34/32 14-18 3.89 277.0 120 9 29 31.0% 2

    CATCHER PROFILES

    Aviles .........................1 Bourn ..................... 3Brantley .....................5 Raburn ................... 1Swisher ......................0 Moss ...................... 3Murphy .......................0

    OUTFIELD ASSISTS (13)

    Date/Opp Batter/Pitcher Inning INDIANS 2015 GRAND SLAMS (0)

    Date/Opp Batter/Pitcher Inning4/26 @DET Murphy/Soria 9th 5/9 vs. MIN Murphy/Hughes 7th

    INDIANS 2015 PINCH-HIT HR (2)

    Date/Opp Batter/Pitcher Inning INDIANS 2015 WALK-OFF HR (0)

    Date/Opp Batter/Situation InningINDIANS 2015 WALK-OFF WINS/NON-HR (0)

    Date/Opp Batters (career#)4/24@DET Brandon Moss (7)

    2015 MULTI-HR GAMES (1)

    Date/Opp Batter/Pitcher5/1 vs. TOR Kipnis (3rd)/Buehrle5/26 vs. TEX Kipnis (4th)/Rodriguez

    2015 LEAD-OFF HR (2)

    Date/Opp Batters/Inning5/21 at CWS Swisher/Aviles (1st)

    BACK-TO-BACK HR (1)

    Jesus Aguilar .........5G, 9/6/14 vs CWSMike Aviles .............1G, 5/31/15 at SEAMichael Bourn .... 95G, 6/22/14 vs. DETMichael Brantley .184G, 4/2/14 @OAK-nLonnie Chisenhall . 8G, 5/22/15 vs. CINYan Gomes ......... 15G, 9/18/14 at HOUBrett Hayes .......... 10G, 4/28/15 vs. KCTyler Holt ................................ 36G, n/aJason Kipnis ............ 24G, 5/7/15 at KCBrandon Moss .........21G, 5/7/15 at KCDavid Murphy ...... 42G, 8/1/14 vs. TEXRoberto Perez ....... 9G, 5/16/15 at TEXRyan Raburn ...23G, 8/13/14 vs ARI(2)Jose Ramirez ......10G, 5/22/15 at CWSJerry Sands ............................77G, n/aCarlos Santana ...12G, 5/12/15 vs. STLNick Swisher .......... 0G, 5/17/15 at TEXZach Walters.......... 1G, 5/15/15 at TEX

    CURRENT ERRORLESS GMS

    Michael Brantley 100 career steals (has 86)Jason Kipnis 500th career hit on 5/8 vs. MINJason Kipnis 100 career steals (has 94)Brandon Moss 100th career home run 6/2 at KCBrandon Moss 500th career hit on 5/25 vs. TEXDavid Murphy 100 career HR (has 97)Carlos Santana Hit 100th HR, 4/19 @MINNick Swisher 1500 career games (has 1475)Nick Swisher 250 career HR (has 241)Nick Swisher 300th career double 5/15 at TEX

    UPCOMING MILESTONES

    2015 DISABLED LISTPLAYER (2015) INJURY DATES(Days/Games)RHP Gavin Floyd(60D) Right elbow fracture April 4-RHP Josh Tomlin(60D) Right shoulder surgery March 29-INF Zach Walters Right oblique strain March 27-April 23 (27/14)OF Nick Swisher Rehab, knee surgeries April 2-May 4 (33/24)C Yan Gomes Right knee sprain April 12-May 23 (42/37)LHP TJ House Left shoulder in ammation May 1-20 (20/18)RHP Scott Atchison Left ankle sprain May 28-

  • W/L WINNING LOSING HOME HOME GAME DATE OPP. SCORE PITCHER PITCHER SAVE TOG W-L POS GB/A ATTEND DATE TOTAL 1 4/6 @HOU L, 0-2 Keuchel (1-0) Kluber (0-1) Gregorson (1) 2:30 0-1 T3rd -1.0 43,753 1 4/7 OFF DAY 0-1 T3rd -1.0 2 4/8 @HOU W, 2-0 Carrasco (1-0) Feldman (0-1) Allen (1) 2:40 1-1 3rd -1.0 23,078 3 4/9 @HOU W, 5-1 Bauer (1-0) Wojciechowski (0-1) 3:08 2-1 3rd -1.0 22,593 3 89,424 4 4/10 vDET L, 4-8 Simon (1-0) McAllister (0-1) Soria (1) 3:35 2-2 3rd -2.0 35,789 1 35,789 5 4/11 vDET L, 6-9 r-Krol (1-0) r-Allen (0-1) 4:16 2-3 3rd -3.0 23,161 2 58,950 6 4/12 vDET L, 5-8 Lobstein (1-0) House (0-1) Soria (2) 3:13 2-4 T3rd -4.0 19,555 3 78,505 6 4/13 OFF DAY 2-4 T3rd -4.5 7 4/14 vCWS L, 1-4 Quintana (1-0) Carrasco (1-1) Robertson (2) 3:01 2-5 4th -5.0 10,642 4 89,147 8 4/15 vCWS W, 4-2 Bauer (2-0) Danks (0-2) Allen (2) 2:58 3-5 T3rd -4.5 11,042 5 100,189 8 4/16 OFF DAY 3-5 T3rd -4.5 9 4/17 @MIN L, 2-3 (11) r-Boyer (1-1) r-Shaw (0-1) 3:38 3-6 T4th -5.5 21,307 10 4/18 @MIN W, 4-2 Salazar (1-0) Hughes (0-3) Allen (3) 2:33 4-6 T3rd -4.5 23,949 11 4/19 @MIN L, 2-7 May (1-1) House (0-2) 2:45 4-7 T4th -5.5 17,923 12 4/20 @CWS L, 3-4 r-Robertson (1-0) r-Allen (0-2) 2:53 4-8 5th -6.5 13,055 13 4/21 @CWS W, 6-2 Carrasco (2-1) Noesi (0-2) 3:07 5-8 T3rd -5.5 14,032 14 4/22 @CWS L, 0-6 Samardzija (1-1) Kluber (0-2) 2:56 5-9 5th -5.5 14,429 14 4/23 OFF DAY 5-9 5th -6.0 15 4/24 @DET W, 13-1 Salazar (2-0) Greene (3-1) 2:52 6-9 T3rd -5.5 28,192 16 4/25 @DET L, 1-4 Simon (4-0) House (0-3) Soria (6) 2:58 6-10 5th -6.0 35,473 17 4/26 @DET L, 6-8 Lobstein (2-1) Carrasco (2-2) Soria (7) 3:01 6-11 5th -6.0 30,698 12 288,482 18 4/27 vKC L, 2-6 Vargas (2-1) Kluber (0-3) 3:22 6-12 5th -7.0 9,668 6 109,857 19 4/28 vKC L, 5-11 r-Finnegan (1-0) r-Atchison (0-1) 3:13 6-13 5th -7.5 10,698 7 120.555 20 4/29 vKC W, 7-5 Salazar (3-0) Ventura (2-2) Allen (4) 2:41 7-13 5th -7.0 10,284 8 130,839 21 4/30 vTOR L, 1-5 r-Francis (1-0) House (0-4) 2:46 7-14 5th -7.5 9,798 9 140,637 APRIL: 7-14, 5th place, -7.5 games back .238 (168-706), .302 OB%, 79RS (3.8 RS/G) 4.54 ERA (184.1IP, 93ER) 22 5/1 vTOR W, 9-4 Carrasco (3-2) Buehrle (3-2) 2:37 8-14 5th -7.5 15,088 10 155,725 23 5/2 vTOR L, 4-11 Sanchez (2-2) Kluber (0-4) 3:23 8-15 5th -7.5 18,008 11 173,733 24 5/3 vTOR W, 10-7 r-Rzepczynski (1-0) r-Francis J (1-1) 3:06 9-15 4th -7.0 16,128 12 189,861 24 5/4 OFF DAY 9-15 4th -7.0 25 5/5 @KC L, 3-5 Vargas (3-1) Salazar (3-1) Davis (6) 2:26 9-16 5th -7.5 29,099 26 5/6 @KC W, 10-3 Carrasco (4-2) Duffy (2-1) 3:04 10-16 5th -6.5 23,316 27 5/7 @KC L, 4-7 r-Morales (3-0) Kluber (0-5) Holland (5) 3:13 10-17 5th -7.5 38,271 15 379,168 28 5/8 vMIN L, 3-9 Pelfrey (3-0) Bauer (2-1) 2:47 10-18 5th -8.0 19,102 13 208,963 29 5/9 vMIN L, 4-7 Hughes (2-4) Chen (0-1) Perkins (11) 3:02 10-19 5th -8.5 16,199 14 225,162 30 5/10 vMIN W, 8-2 Salazar (4-1) May (2-3) 2:37 11-19 5th -8.5 13,769 15 238,931 30 5/11 OFF DAY 11-19 5th -8.0 31 5/12 vSTL L, 3-8 Lynn (2-3) Carrasco (4-3) 3:31 11-20 5th -9.0 12,615 16 251,546 32 5/13 vSTL W, 2-0 Kluber (1-5) Lackey (2-2) Allen (5) 2:47 12-20 5th -8.0 12,313 17 263,859 33 5/14 vSTL L, 1-2 r-Siegrist (2-0) r-Rzepczynski(1-1) Rosenthal (12) 3:12 12-21 5th -9.0 15,865 18 279,724 34 5/15 @TEX W, 8-3 r-Webb (1-0) Rodriguez (1-2) 3:17 13-21 5th -9.0 29,524 35 5/16 @TEX W, 10-8 r-Atchison (1-1) r-Feliz (1-2) Allen (6) 3:37 14-21 5th -8.0 31,045 36 5/17 @TEX L, 1-5 Martinez (3-0) CARRASCO (4-4) 2:49 14-22 5th -9.0 32,189 37 5/18 @CWS L, 1-2 (10) r-Duke (2-2) r-McAllister (0-2) 2:34 14-23 5th -9.5 17,712 38 5/19 @CWS W, 3-1 Bauer (3-1) Quintana (2-4) Allen (7) 2:57 15-23 5th -9.5 15,681 39 5/20 @CWS W, 4-3 Marcum (1-0) r-Jennings (0-1) Allen (8) 2:56 16-23 5th -9.5 15,146 40 5/21 @CWS W, 5-2 Salazar (5-1) Danks (2-4) 3:04 17-23 5th -9.0 18,321 22 538,786 41 5/22 vCIN W, 7-3 Carrasco (5-4) Leake (2-3) 2:56 18-23 5th -9.0 23,617 19 303,341 42 5/23 vCIN W, 2-1 Kluber (2-5) r-Cingrani (0-1) Allen (9) 2:33 19-23 5th -9.0 27,315 20 330,656 43 5/24 vCIN W, 5-2 Bauer (4-1) Iglesias (1-1) 3:07 20-23 T4th -8.0 23,882 21 354,538 44 5/25 vTEX L, 8-10 r-Scheppers (1-0) r-Rzepczynski (1-2) Tolleson (4) 3:32 20-24 T4th -8.0 13,614 22 368,152 45 5/26 vTEX L, 3-4 r-Kela (4-1) r-Hagadone (0-1) Tolleson (5) 3:06 20-25 T4th -8.0 11,352 23 379,504 46 5/27 vTEX W, 12-3 Carrasco (6-4) Lewis (4-3) 2:47 21-25 T4th -7.0 15,956 24 395,460 47 5/28 @SEA W, 5-3 Kluber (3-5) Paxton (3-3) Allen (10) 2:50 22-25 4th -6.5 19,449 48 5/29 @SEA L, 1-2 Walker (2-5) Bauer (4-2) Rodney (14) 2:24 22-26 5th -7.5 32,454 49 5/30 @SEA W, 4-3 Marcum (2-0) Elias (2-2) Allen (11) 3:04 23-26 4th -7.0 32,287 50 5/31 @SEA W, 6-3 (12) r-McAllister (1-2) r-Leone (0-4) Adams (1) 4:36 24-26 4th -6.5 32,112 MAY: 17-12, 4th place, -6.5 game back .265 (262-989), .351 OB%, 146RS (5.0 RS/G) 3.66 ERA (260.2IP, 106ER) 50 6/1 OFF DAY 24-26 4th -6.5 51 6/2 @KC W, 2-1 Carrasco (7-4) r-Davis (2-1) Allen (12) 3:16 25-26 4th -5.5 30,361 27 685,449 52 6/3 @KC 8:10 pm 53 6/4 @KC 8:10 pm 54 6/5 vBAL 7:10 pm 55 6/6 vBAL 4:10 pm 56 6/7 vBAL 1:10 pm 56 6/8 OFF DAY 57 6/9 vSEA 7:10 pm 58 6/10 vSEA 7:10 pm 59 6/11 vSEA 12:10 pm 60 6/12 @DET 7:08 pm 61 6/13 @DET 4:08 pm 62 6/14 @DET 1:08 pm 63 6/15 @CHI 8:05 pm 64 6/16 @CHI 8:05 pm 65 6/17 vCHI 7:10 pm 66 6/18 vCHI 7:10 pm 67 6/19 vTB 7:10 pm 68 6/20 vTB 7:10 pm 69 6/21 vTB 1:10 pm 70 6/22 vDET 7:10 pm 71 6/23 vDET 7:10 pm 72 6/24 vDET 12:10 pm 72 6/25 OFF DAY 73 6/26 @BAL 7:05 pm 74 6/27 @BAL 7:15 pm 75 6/28 @BAL 1:35 pm 76 6/29 @TB 7:10 pm 77 6/30 @TB 7:10 pm JUNE: 1-0, 4th place, -5.5 games back .182 (6-33), .250 OB%, 2RS (2.0 RS/G) 1.00 ERA (9.0IP, 1ER) 1ST HALF: 25-26, 4th place, -5.5 games back .252 (436-1728), .330 OB%, 227RS (4.5 RS/G) 3.96 ERA (454.0IP, 200ER) 78 7/1 @TB 7:10 pm 79 7/2 @TB 12:10 pm 80 7/3 @PIT 7:05 pm 81 7/4 @PIT 4:05 pm 82 7/5 @PIT 1:35 pm JULY: 0-0, --- place, --- game back ---- (0-0), ---- OB%, 0RS (---RS/G) ----ERA (0.0IP, 0ER)

    (xx) - extra inning game r - relief decision PITCHER IN CAPS - complete game

    2015 INDIANS DAY-BY-DAY PAGE 7 CLEVELAND INDIANS GAME NOTES wednesday, june 3, 2015

    2015 TRANSACTIONSMARCH 17 Optioned RHP CODY ANDERSON, LHP RYAN MERRITT and C TONY WOLTERS to AA Akron...Optioned RHP SHAWN ARMSTRONG, RHP CHARLES BREWER, INF GIOVANNY URSHELA to AAA Columbus...Reassigned C JAKE LOWERY, OF TYLER NAQUIN, RHP WILL ROBERTS and OF JOR-DAN SMITH to Minor League camp. MARCH 20 Optioned INF ERIK GONZALEZ to AA Akron...Optioned OF CARLOS MONCRIEF to AAA Columbus...Reassigned LHP NICK MARONDEand OF JAMES RAMSEY to Minor League camp.MARCH 26 Optioned RHP C.C. LEE to AAA Co-lumbus...Re-assigned INF AUDY CIRIACO, OF DES-TIN HOOD, INF FRANCISCO LINDOR, RHP DUSTIN MOLLEKEN, C ADAM MOORE, RHP BRYAN PRICE and LHP MICHAEL ROTH to Minor League camp.MARCH 27 Optioned RHP DANNY SALAZAR to AAA Columbus.MARCH 29 Optioned RHP JOSH TOMLIN to AAA Columbus.MARCH 29 Optioned OF TYLER HOLT to AAA Columbus....Released LHP SCOTT DOWNS.APRIL 2 Optioned INF JESUS AGUILAR to AAA Columbus.

    APRIL 5 Purchased the contract of RHP ANTHONY SWARZAK from AAA Columbus ...Placed RHP JOSH TOMLIN (R shoulder surgery/retro 3/29) on 15-day DL/rescinded his 3/29 option to Colum-bus...Placed OF NICK SWISHER (rehab, bi-lateral knee surgery/retro 2-Apr) and INF ZACH WALTERS (R oblique strain/retro 3/27) on the 15-day DL...Placed RHP GAVIN FLOYD (R elbow fracture/sur-gery) on the 60-day DL...Reassigned LHP BRUCE CHEN, C BRETT HAYES, RHP JEFF MANSHIP, RHP SHAUN MARCUM, INF MICHAEL MARTINEZ, INF RYAN ROHLINGER and 1B/OF JERRY SANDS to the AAA Columbus roster... Signed RHP COREY KLUBER to a ve-year Major League contract thru the 2019 season with club options for 2020 and 2021.APRIL 7 Signed RHP CARLOS CARRASCO to a four-year Major League contract thru the 2018 season with club options for 2019 and 2020.APRIL 10 Purchased the contract of 1B/OF JERRY SANDS from AAA Columbus...Optioned RHP AUSTIN ADAMS to AAA Columbus...Transferred RHP JOSH TOMLIN from 15-day to the 60-day D.L.APRIL 12 Purchased the contract of RHP SHAUN MARCUM from AAA Columbus...Recalled RHP AUSTIN ADAMS from Columbus...Placed C YAN GOMES on the 15-day DL with a right knee sprain...Optioned LHP KYLE CROCKETT to AAA Columbus...Released RHP CHARLES BREWER.APRIL 13 Signed RHP RYAN WEBB to a Mi-nor League contract (assigned to AAA Columbus). APRIL 14 Purchased the contract of C BRETT HAYES from AAA Columbus...Designated RHP SHAUN MARCUM for assignment (outright to AAA on 4/15)... Signed RHP JHOULYS CHACIN to a Mi-nor League contract.APRIL 18 Recalled RHP DANNY SALAZAR from AAA Columbus...Optioned RHP AUSTIN ADAMS to AAA.APRIL 24 Activated INF/OF ZACH WALTERS from 15-day DL and optioned him to AAA Columbus.APRIL 29 Selected the contract of RHP RYAN WEBB from Columbus...Designated OF JERRY SANDS for assignment (outrighted on 5/3 to AAA). MAY 1 Placed LHP TJ HOUSE on the 15-day Disabled List with left shoulder in ammation...Recalled OF TYLER HOLT from AAA Columbus. MAY 5 Activated OF NICK SWISHER from the 15-day Disabled List...Optioned OF TYLER HOLT to AAA Columbus.MAY 8 Placed INF MIKE AVILES on the Family Medical Emergency List...Recalled INF/OF ZACH WALTERS from AAA Columbus.MAY 9 Purchased the contract of LHP BRUCE CHEN from AAA Columbus...Designated RHP ANTHONY SWARZAK for assignment (outrighted to AAA Columbus on May 14).MAY 16 Recalled RHP AUSTIN ADAMS from the AAA Columbus Clippers...Designated LHP BRUCE CHEN for assignment (retired on 5/18). MAY 18 Activated INF MIKE AVILES from the Restricted List...Optioned RHP AUSTIN ADAMS to AAA Columbus.MAY 20 Selected the contract of RHP SHAUN MARCUM from AAA Columbus...Optioned INF ZACH WALTERS to AAA Columbus. MAY 21 Activated LHP TJ HOUSE from the 15-day DL and optioned him to AAA Columbus.MAY 24 Activated C YAN GOMES from 15-day DL..Designated C BRETT HAYES for assignment. (outrighted to Columbus on 5/31). MAY 28 Selected the contract of OF JERRY SANDS and recalled RHP AUSTIN ADAMS from AAA Columbus...Placed INF CARLOS SANTANA on the Paternity List...Placed RHP SCOTT ATCHISON on the 15-day Disabled List with a left ankle sprain.MAY 31 Reinstated INF CARLOS SAN-TANA from the Paternity List...Designated OF JERRY SANDS for assignment.

    OPENING DAY ROSTERPitchers (13): Cody Allen, Scott Atchison, Trevor Bauer, Carlos Carrasco, Kyle Crockett, Nick Hagadone, TJ House, Corey Kluber, Zach McAl-lister , Marc Rzepczynski, Bryan Shaw, Anthony Swarzak, Austin Adams.In elders (5): Mike Aviles , Lonnie Chisenhall, Jason Kipnis, Jose Ramirez, Carlos SantanaOut elders (5): Michael Brantley, Michael Bourn, Brandon Moss, David Murphy, and Ryan RaburnCatchers (2): Yan Gomes and Roberto Perez.DL (4): Swisher, Tomlin, Floyd, Walters


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