This is a 10* on CLEVELAND

Cleveland is now just one game back of Minnesota following Thursday's 7-5 wn. Winning tonight would obviously pull them into a first place tie. The Twins once led the Indians by as many as 11.5 games and were ahead by 7.5 games as recently as July 13th. But the Indians have caught fire by going 40-16 their last 56 games. Perhaps this young Minnesota team is now feeling the heat as they have lost three in a row for just the second time all year. Their other three-game losing streak came right after the All Star Break and was snapped with a 6-3 win over Oakland. But expect a different result this time as Cleveland's Shane Bieber has been virtually untouchable of late with two complete games in his last three starts, one of them a shutout. The Indians are 16-7 in Bieber starts this year and he has a 0.75 WHIP on the road. Twins starter Smeltzer has only started three games. In two of them, he didn't allow a run. But the third was against Cleveland and he gave up all five runs in a 5-2 loss. Bieber has beaten the Twins both times he faced them this year. Play on CLEVELAND

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