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Chris Perez insisted it was no big deal that his 20th consecutive save came
against his old team. The body language begged to differ. The Cleveland Indians
closer finished off a 4-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday while
battling an upset stomach that left him spitting up fluid between pitches. After
getting Adron Chambers on a pop-up with a man on first for the final out, Perez
went down to one knee. “I drank some warm water and I ran out there and it just
didnt settle well,” Perez said. “What am I going to do, call timeout and run
into the dugout? “If you remember, a couple years ago in spring training it was
the same situation. So I need to stay away from warm water.” Clevelands
Jason Kipnis hit a tiebreaking three-run homer off closer Jason Motte in the
ninth after the Cardinals left the bases loaded in the eighth. Vinnie Pestano
(3-0) walked three straight batters with one out in the eighth but recovered to
strike out No. 3 hitter Yadier Molina and cleanup man Allen Craig. “Thats the
game right there,” Kipnis said. “I thought both starting pitchers did a great
job and it just came down to who can execute late.” Carlos Beltran homered for
the second straight day to increase his National League-leading total to 18, and
Joe Kelly allowed one run in five-plus innings in his major league debut for the
Cardinals. St. Louis is the only major league team that has not won a series
over the Indians, who are 14-6 overall and 8-4 on the road against the
Cardinals. “Its a little bit of everything right now,” Beltran said. “Weve been
battling injuries and things like that, but at the same time we just need to
find a way to play better. Theres no excuses.” The Cardinals have lost eight of
12 and totalled just five runs in the series. They went the last two without
cleanup hitter Matt Holliday, who could return from mid-back spasms on Tuesday
after the teams off day Monday. “Guys are grinding. Theyre fighting, and Im
going to continue to stay optimistic because thats what I believe,” manager
Mike Matheny said. “Its not a facade—its only a matter of time before we take
off. “When we take off, its going to be a good run.” Michael Brantley extended
his hitting streak to 18 games and Ubaldo Jimenez had a season-best seven
strikeouts in seven strong innings for Cleveland. The Indians had scored just
one run in 19 innings before the ninth, when pinch hitter Johnny Damon hit a
leadoff single and Asdrubal Cabrera walked with one out. Kipnis hit his 10th
homer on a 2-2 fastball from Motte (3-3). On Saturday, Motte got Kipnis to fly
out to right on a pitch that he thought had a slightly better location. “Its
just one of those things,” Motte said. “He got the barrel on it. It happens.”
The Indians won despite going 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position and 2 for
18 with men on base. Perez, who once competed with Motte for the St. Louis
closer spot, has been flawless since blowing a save on opening day. “I enjoyed
pitching out there today, beating my former team, but at the end of the day I
was just trying to get the save,” Perez said. “If I go out there too amped up
and trying to do too much, I wouldnt have had a good outing.” Jimenez had his
first walk-free game of the season, after coming in with 43 walks in 62 2-3
innings. The right-hander has walked just one in his last two starts covering 13
2-3 innings and faced only three three-ball counts against the Cardinals. The
first came in the first inning against Beltran, who belted a 3-1 pitch an
estimated 428 feet to right-centre. Jimenez then retired 13 in a row, including
five strikeouts in a span of eight at-bats. Kelly, who replaced the injured
Jaime Garcia in the rotation, left to a standing ovation after Brantley singled
to start the sixth and kept his hit streak alive. “It felt like another start,”
said Kelly, who began last season at the Class A level. “I didnt think I was
going to sleep last night and I got great sleep. “I was relaxed. It was good to
go.” Brantley is batting .357 (25 for 70) during his hit streak, the longest
current run in the majors and two shy of the seasons longest by Adam Jones of
Baltimore that ended May 30. Brantley can match his career best, set in 2010, at
Cincinnati on Tuesday. NOTES: Cardinals utilityman Matt Carpenter (right side)
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pitching coach Dave Duncans family had an impromptu reunion and watched
Shelley Duncan start in LF for Cleveland. Shelley Duncan was 2 for 4. ...
Matheny and former manager Tony La Russa both have charity golf events Monday.
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. The White Sox are only 1 1/2 games ahead of the Detroit Tigers for the
American League Central lead and dropped a 6-2 decision in Fridays series
opener. Jake Peavy had an outing he would like to forget and gave up five runs
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game that had some of the intensity of a key regular-season game. It was a
rematch of last seasons first-round playoff series, which the Bulls won 4-1.
Thirty-seven days. Thats how much time remains for the NHL and its players
association to bridge a wide gap in collective bargaining negotiations or face
another lockout. Commissioner Gary Bettman made it clear during Thursdays
bargaining session in New York that the league is prepared to lock out its
players when the current agreement expires Sept. 15. “I re-confirmed something
that the union has been told multiple times over the last nine to 12 months,”
Bettman told reporters after a two-hour meeting. “Namely, that time is getting
short and the owners are not prepared to operate under this collective
bargaining agreement for another season, so we need to get to making a deal and
doing it soon. And we believe theres ample time for the parties to get together
and make a deal and thats what were going to be working towards.” The clock is
ticking. It makes next weeks meetings in Toronto particularly important, with
NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr expected to deliver the unions first
official proposal on Tuesday. It wont look anything like the one the NHL handed
over July 13. The union found very little, if anything, it liked in that
document, which called for a lowering of the players share in revenue,
introduced new contract restrictions and called for an extended entry-level
system. One change the players will seek is a broadening of the revenue- sharing
system between teams. Fehr raised that issue Thursday during the talks at NHL
headquarters as a way to illustrate why the NHLPA wasnt in favour of the leagues
proposal. “We made a presentation directly related to the owners proposal—a
revenue-sharing system as it would be combined with the player compensaation
system that they had proposed,” said Fehr. NaVorro Bowman Super bowl Jersey. . “In the
course of doing that, (we) indicated to them that for a couple of different
reasons it didnt look to us like it was the way to go. “In particular, the
biggest reason was that it seems to us, both overall and on a club-by-club
basis, all of the revenue-sharing payments—both the new ones and the existing
ones—would be paid for by player salary reductions.” That was by design.
Bettman indicated that “fundamental economics” are more of a key element to the
negotiations than revenue sharing. “The fundamental proposal, our initial
proposal, relates to the fact that we need to be paying out less in player
costs,” he said. The NHL lost its entire 2004-05 season to a lockout and seems
to be facing the growing possibility of another one. It would be the third on
Bettmans watch. Fehr has floated the idea of continuing negotiations while
players report to training camp if a new deal wasnt in place by Sept. 15. “Under
the law, if an agreement expires, that may give someone the legal ability to go
on strike or in this case to impose a lockout,” he said. “Theres no requirement
that they do so and if nobody does anything you (can) continue to work under the
old conditions.” However, with the NHL unwilling to do that, negotiations will
need to pick up pace. Even though the sides have been meeting regularly since
the end of June, very little progress has been made on what they refer to as the
“core economic issues”—how revenues should be divided. “Theres a meaningful
gulf there,” said Fehr. “Ill leave it at that for now.” ’ ’ ’
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