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Indians 11-0 vs. Detroit

Tribe cruises to 12-1 victory

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Indians show no sign of letting up their dominance of the Detroit Tigers.

Cleveland remained perfect in 11 games against Detroit this season with a 12-1 victory Tuesday night.

The Indians have outscored the Tigers 77-24 in the season series. Cleveland leads Detroit by 7 1/2 games in the AL Central.

Indians manager Terry Francona hasn't spent much time analyzing his team's eye-popping numbers against the Tigers.

“Once we process yesterday we move on, let alone a month ago or week ago,” he said. “You play the next game and try to win. If you do it good enough people start asking those kind of questions.”

Lonnie Chisenhall was 4 for 5 with three RBIs while Carlos Santana and Tyler Naquin homered. Carlos Carrasco (5-2) allowed one run in six innings for Cleveland, which has won 13 straight at home.

Francisco Lindor, named as a reserve to the AL All-Star team, had an RBI double and turned in two outstanding defensive plays for Cleveland.

“We've been focused against everybody, we've just had a little more success against them,” he said.

Detroit manager Brad Ausmus believes there's a simple reason for his team's problems against Cleveland.

“There's nothing baffling,” he said. “It's not like we haven't played good baseball. They've just played better.”

Anibal Sanchez (5-9), who replaced the injured Jordan Zimmermann, allowed seven runs in 4 1/3 innings.

Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was ejected in the sixth after grounding out.

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