Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

MLB: Minnesota 6, Cleveland 4

(Boxscore)
|
|
 
  
Published: June 6, 2011 at 10:03 PM

CLEVELAND, June 6 (UPI) -- Drew Butera bunted in a run and scored on a wild pitch Monday and the Minnesota Twins registered a 6-4 victory over Cleveland, their fifth straight.

With the score tied 2-2, the Twins scored three times in the fifth to take control in the first of three games with the American League Central leaders.

After Luke Hughes doubled and Matt Tolbert (two RBI) reached on a bunt single, Butera laid down another bunt on a squeeze play that scored Hughes from third.

After Ben Revere singled, Tolbert scored on Alexi Casilla's double-play grounder as Butera went to third, then came home when Indians starter Josh Tomlin (7-3) uncorked a wild pitch.

Scott Baker (3-4) earned his first win in a month, holding Cleveland to four runs (three earned) on nine hits over seven innings, and Matt Capps notched his eighth save with a scoreless ninth.

Tomlin was lit up for six runs on nine hits in a six-inning start as the struggling Indians lost for the seventh time in nine games.

Asdrubal Cabrera went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer and Michael Brantley added a solo shot for Cleveland.

Topics: Josh Tomlin, Matt Tolbert
Recommended Stories
© 2011 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Linsanity The Daytona 500 Cheerleaders of 2012
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
Texas gun range to host kids' birthday party packages. What could possibly go wrong?
Dum-dums raid snack shop, cheez-it before the cops come, but leave mounds of wrappers behind, allowing...
Baby in runaway stroller swerving through traffic saved by alert garbage man. "The baby seemed to...
You know how sometimes you're at the lake in your spacesuit and you start craving pizza and a Pegasus...
Who's been installing cameras with license plate readers on utility poles in Upstate New York? Nothing...
LA police officer sets Ferris wheel ride record. 'I'm used to sitting on my ass all day'