Lindor Homers Twice as Indians Beat MLB-Best Twins, 5-2

Minnesota Twins v Cleveland Indians

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Cleveland -- The Indians hit 4 homers, two coming from Francisco Lindor, as they power past the Twins 5-2 on Tuesday night.

After the Twins hit a home run, to take an early 1-0 lead, Francisco came up in the third and drove one to the bleachers in left to tie the game at one. Then in the 5th, he hit a 2-run homer to almost the exact same spot in left to break the one-one tie to put the Tribe up 3-1. The other two Tribe homers came from Roberto Perez, who hit a long home run to dead center field over the 19-foot high wall, right after that Jake Bauers followed up with a laser down the right field line, to make it 5-2 and that is all the Indians needed offensively tonight.

Shane Bieber pitched another gem for the Indians this season, as he pitched 7 strong innings, only allowing 2 runs and striking out 7, to improve his record on the year to 5-2. Oliver Perez entered the game in the 8th inning with a runner on and preceded to strike out the side to end the eighth.

Brad Hand pitched a perfect ninth inning to go 17 for 17 in save situations on the season.

Prior to the game, the team placed SP Jefry Rodriguez on the 10-day IL with a strained shoulder and will be shut down for two to three weeks and to replace him on the roster they activated OF Tyler Naquin from the IL.

Reinforcements for the starting rotation are on the horizon as Mike Clevinger will begin his rehab assignment on Thursday at Triple-A Columbus.

The series continues tomorrow at 7:10 as the Indians send Carlos Carrasco (4-6, 4.98 ERA) to the mound as he looks to bounce back from recent struggles and Twins will throw Martin Perez (7-2, 3.71 ERA) who has pitched brilliantly this year but as struggled in his career against the Tribe, with a 1-2 record and a 9.13 ERA in six appearances.


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