| Breaking News |  | Tuesday, September 1st, 2020: Cleveland Loses Julio Gallo
The Cleveland Indians will have to make do without Julio Gallo for 1-2 weeks. He suffered a finger blister while throwing a pitch in the game today against the Seattle Mariners. His teammates, understandably, were upset about losing the reliever. "That's a tough break for him," one of them said. "But this team is resilient. We will just fill in until he gets back." Gallo will miss 1-2 weeks.
Gallo has taken the mound for 47 relief appearances this season, nailing down 14 saves while notching a 5-4 record with a 4.52 ERA. The Cleveland reliever has limited opposing batters to a .257 batting average. |
 | Saturday, August 22nd, 2020: Soprano Raps 300-th Roundtripper
The Tampa Bay 7-2 victory over Cleveland was highlighted by Anthony Soprano's 300th career home run. His teammates congratulated him at home plate after he circled the bases.
"I didn't see all of them out there," Soprano laughed, "until I rounded third base." He added sheepishly: "It was only a home run. It's not like I won us a World Series!"
In 3 at-bats the Devil Rays first baseman collected 2 hits in his historic game, scored 2 runs and had 2 runs batted in.
In his career Soprano has played in 1898 games with a .274 batting average. Among his 1731 hits are 259 doubles, 13 triples and 300 home runs. He also has scored 971 runs and driven in 1112 runs.
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 | Monday, August 10th, 2020: American League Winner is Bruce
The #1 hitter in the American League was Cleveland center fielder Jay Bruce. He was selected the Player of the Week.
During the week Bruce banged out a .522 batting average (12-23), 2 home runs, 6 runs batted in and scored 9 runs.
This season Bruce is hitting at a .319 pace with 8 home runs, 16 RBIs and has scored 25 times.
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| Team Information | | Record overall | 51-88, .367 PCT | | Position in Division | 5th, 32.5 GB | | Record at home | 25-42, .373 PCT | | Record on the road | 26-46, .361 PCT | | Record in X-inning games | 6-7, .462 PCT | | Record in one-run games | 13-21, .382 PCT | | Record versus LHP | 20-23, .465 PCT | | Record versus RHP | 31-65, .323 PCT | | Record last 10 games | 3-7, .300 PCT | | Record in April | 10-17, .370 PCT | | Record in May | 11-17, .393 PCT | | Record in June | 12-15, .444 PCT | | Record in July | 9-17, .346 PCT | | Record in August | 7-20, .259 PCT | | Record in September | 2-2, .500 PCT |
| Team Batting Stats & Rankings | | Batting Average | .283 - 5th in AL | | On-Base Percentage | .347 - 6th in AL | | Slugging Percentage | .459 - 5th in AL | | On-Base + Slugging | .806 - 5th in AL | | Runs Scored | 775 - 6th in AL | | Hits | 1412 - tied for 5th in AL | | Extra-Base Hits | 475 - 5th in AL | | Home Runs | 188 - 4th in AL | | Bases-On-Balls | 475 - 6th in AL | | Strikeouts | 967 - 8th in AL | | Stolen Bases | 96 - 12th in AL |
| Team Pitching Stats & Rankings | | Earned Run Average | 6.01 - 14th in AL | | Starters' ERA | 6.86 - 14th in AL | | Bullpen ERA | 4.97 - 4th in AL | | Runs allowed | 924 - 14th in AL | | Hits allowed | 1438 - 8th in AL | | Opponents AVG | .293 - 10th in AL | | BABIP | .315 - 4th in AL | | Home Runs allowed | 220 - 13th in AL | | Bases-On-Balls | 660 - 14th in AL | | Strikeouts | 831 - 11th in AL |
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