, and the AL West-leading Rangers won for the ninth time in their last 11 games. Lewis has won his last three starts and has pitched at least six innings in 10 of 11 outings this season. The 36-year-old right-hander gave up singles to Lonnie Chisenhall and Rajai Davis in the third. He is 3-0 and has allowed five earned runs over 26 innings in five road starts. Sam Dyson got two outs for his sixth save in seven chances. Holaday's two-run homer put Texas ahead in the third, and Profar hit a solo homer in the fifth. Kluber was removed after the first three hitters in the eighth reached base. He allowed six runs and eight hits in seven innings. Cleveland has lost three straight after briefly moving into the AL Central lead on Saturday. Chisenhall had three RBIs, including a two-run homer in the seventh. Ian Desmond's two-run double in the eighth extended his hitting streak to nine games. Elvis Andrus was 1 for 4 and has hit safely in 29 of 30 career games at Progressive Field. Jared Hoying, a native of northwest Ohio, got his major league RBI with a ninth-inning single and had two hits. TRAINER'S ROOMRangers: RHP Shawn Tolleson (family medical emergency list) is to throw a bullpen session Wednesday. Indians: RHP Joba Chamberlain (left intercostal strain) will throw a simulated game Saturday. He's been on the 15-day disabled list since May 23. UP NEXTLHP Cole Hamels, scheduled to start for Texas on Wednesday, had won a career-best 12 consecutive decsions before losing 9-1 to Pittsburgh last Friday. Cleveland is to start RHP Trevor Bauer, 2-2 with a 4.19 ERA in six starts after opening the season with six bullpen appearances.
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Time: 06:10 P.M. EST Venue: Progressive Field
Even Colby Lewis' worst start of the season couldn't slow him down to the point of a loss, and he's now in position for the first 5-0 start of his career. The right-hander takes the mound seeking to win a third straight start Tuesday night as the visiting Texas Rangers try to take the first two of a three-game series against the Cleveland Indians. Lewis (4-0, 3.38 ERA) had pitched at least six innings in every start and completed seven in five straight prior to giving up six runs and eight hits in five innings of Wednesday's 15-9 home win over the Los Angeles Angels. The veteran had been coming off his best start - seven scoreless innings at Houston - before giving up more than four runs for the first time this year. He still had it together enough to walk just one and has issued three in 40 innings over his last six starts. Lewis' career in Cleveland has been a disaster, going 1-2 with an 11.74 ERA in three starts and one relief appearance. The losses have come in the last two starts there, and Lewis gave up 10 runs and 11 hits with two home runs in 2 2/3 innings of a 12-3 defeat on May 27, 2015. Carlos Santana (5 for 12 with a home run) and Rajai Davis (8 for 22) have hit him well, but Marlon Byrd is 1 for 7. Lewis is up against Corey Kluber (4-5, 3.78), who has also won consecutive starts after erratic results early in the season." We have some other guys pitching pretty well, but he certainly anchors (the rotation)," manager Terry Francona told MLB's official website. "We have that one guy that has the responsibility of maybe going up against the other team's best pitcher, and he's earned that." Five days after throwing seven innings of two-run ball at Boston, Kluber gave up two runs ??? one earned ??? and struck out nine in 7 1/3 innings of Wednesday's 4-3 road victory over the Chicago White Sox." I've been asking the few hitters that have gotten to second base today and in Boston," second baseman Jason Kipnis said. "They say his stuff, he might have found it again. He's been looking real sharp." The former Cy Young Award winner is 1-3 with a 4.67 ERA in four home starts, but he's 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA in two starts against the Rangers. Prince Fielder is 2 for 15 with six strikeouts and a home run against Kluber. The Rangers (30-21) jumped on the Indians (26-23) early in Monday's 9-2 series-opening victory, scoring nine runs by the fourth inning for their eighth win in 10 games. Nomar Mazara homered for the fifth time in his last 11 games, and Elvis Andrus collected three hits after going 0 for 8 over the weekend at home against Pittsburgh. Ian Desmond was 2 for 5 with a home run and is batting .432 on an eight-game hitting streak.'' I'm trying to do my job and produce runs,'' Desmond said. ''When we score, we win.'' Cleveland has lost three of four while giving up 25 runs.
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