A.L. CENTRAL Tribe breaks scoreless tie with 5 runs in 14th inning

The Indians beat Minnesota with some solid and timely pitching.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire aptly summed up a disappointing defeat.
"Well, uh, we didn't score for 14 innings," Gardenhire said after Cleveland scored five times in the 14th with only two balls out of the infield to beat the Twins 5-0 on Wednesday night.
"You're not going to win a baseball game if you don't score."
The longest scoreless game in the majors since May 31 -- when the Chicago Cubs beat Houston 1-0 in 16 innings at Wrigley Field -- ended after 4 hours, 25 minutes.
"Something had to happen," Cleveland's Ryan Ludwick said in an upbeat clubhouse after his RBI single spurred the five-run inning. "It was a matter of waiting and waiting. It kind of got to the point where it was almost ridiculous."
The Twins dropped 3 1/2 games behind Kansas City, which beat the Yankees 11-0, in the AL Central.
Frustrating
"To go 14 innings and then lose is probably more frustrating than getting spanked early on," Minnesota's Michael Restovich said. "They got that big inning, and it was kind of end of story."
David Riske worked the 14th after Terry Mulholland (2-2) pitched four scoreless innings for the win. Mulholland gave up two of the Twins' eight hits.
Casey Blake led off the final inning with an infield single and took third on Jody Gerut's single to center off Juan Rincon (3-5), who gave up Ludwick's hit -- one of 10 by Cleveland.
J.C. Romero gave up a sacrifice to Ben Broussard, intentionally walked Tim Laker and grazed Travis Hafner with a pitch to force in the second run. Jhonny Peralta drove in a run on a single when Romero fielded his chopper and threw low to first base -- allowing another run to score.
John McDonald drove in the final run with a groundout.
"We were out of bullets, basically," Gardenhire said, lamenting an excellent start by Johan Santana that went for nothing. Santana shut out Cleveland for eight innings, and LaTroy Hawkins and Eddie Guardado each followed with two scoreless innings.
Jason Davis countered with six shutout innings for the Indians, whose starters have a 3.00 ERA in their last 10 games.
Minnesota wasted several opportunities to win. Two runners reached in the 10th, but Doug Mientkiewicz grounded into an inning-ending double play.
Jacque Jones was stranded after a leadoff single in the ninth by Rafael Bettancourt -- who also bailed the Indians out of an eighth-inning jam.
Threat
Pinch-hitter Mike Ryan, called up the day before from Triple-A Rochester, doubled to begin the inning against former Twin Jack Cressend -- who misplayed Cristian Guzman's bunt for an error and was replaced by Bettancourt.
But Shannon Stewart grounded out, Ryan was tagged out trying to score on a fielder's choice by Luis Rivas and Corey Koskie ended the inning with a fielder's choice.
Davis was ejected in the third inning of the Indians' 9-2 loss at the Metrodome on July 4 for throwing inside to Torii Hunter, but he was a lot better this time.
Despite stretching his winless streak to eight starts, Davis allowed just two hits and two walks in six innings while striking out six. He didn't give up a run for the first time this year.