Colon wins fifth straight, leads Indians past Brewers 7-2
Posted: Friday July 03, 1998 12:55 AM
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Colon surrendered 10 hits and two walks, but only one run in six innings of work (AP) |
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Bartolo Colon
didn't need his best stuff to beat the Milwaukee Brewers.
Colon won his fifth straight start and had his first major league hit and
RBI in the Cleveland
Indians' 7-2 victory over Milwaukee on Thursday night.
Colon (9-4), selected to the AL All-Star team Wednesday, gave up 10 hits
and one run in six innings, tying his shortest outing and most hits allowed
this season. He struck out four and walked two.
"I don't know that he struggled," Milwaukee manager Phil Garner said.
"When I look at the pitches, we hit good pitches. He made good pitches on
us. We did a good job of getting men on base but did a horrible job of
hitting when we got them in scoring position."
Colon got his first hit in the majors in the fourth inning when he
singled in David
Bell to make it 4-1. The 23-year-old right-hander was selected AL
pitcher of the month for June on Wednesday.
"His two-seamer was just not working at all for him," Cleveland manager
Mike Hargrove said. "It looked like those were the pitches he was giving up
the opposite-field hits on. He was up in the strike zone, it wasn't
sinking."
Although the Brewers had 13 hits, they left 15 men on base and had seven
strikeouts, many in key situations.
"We had chances but we didn't do it. We struck out a lot and didn't put
the ball in play," Garner said.
Jim Thome's
22nd home run of the season, a two-run shot to left, put Cleveland ahead
3-1 in the third inning. The All-Star first baseman walked four times to
push his AL-leading total to 61.
Shawon
Dunston, who pinch hit for Colon to begin the seventh, hit a solo home
run, his third, to push Cleveland's advantage to 5-1. Manny Ramirez
added his 16th homer, a two-out shot that chased Brewers starter Brad Woodall.
Ramirez had an RBI double in the ninth.
Woodall (4-3) gave up eight hits and six runs in 6 2-3 innings.
"They hit them out of the ballpark and got some runs, I have to overcome
that,' Woodall said. "I don't think I made many more mistakes than I have
in the past, they just took advantage of them."
Milwaukee added a run in the ninth on pinch-hitter Mark Loretta's
RBI off Paul
Assenmacher.
Cleveland tied it at 1 in the second on Travis
Fryman's RBI single. Milwaukee's Marquis
Grissom had an RBI single in the first.
Notes: Colon has five complete games, one more than Cleveland's
staff had last season ... Despite giving up a run, Cleveland has outscored
its opponents 43-35 in the first inning this season.
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