Blake finishes 5-for-5 for Tribe

Two of his hits were homers, and he had seven RBIs in a rout of the Twins.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Cleveland's Casey Blake had a career night against his former team, and Minnesota starter Joe Mays was knocked out of the rotation.
Blake went 5-for-5 with two homers and seven RBIs, leading the Indians past the struggling Twins 13-2 Saturday night.
"Somebody would be lying if they said that doing it against your old team doesn't feel good," he said.
Matt Lawton -- another former Twin -- and Milton Bradley homered for the Indians, who got seven solid innings from starter Brian Anderson (6-6).
Third win in row
The left-hander won his third straight decision, allowing two runs and six hits, four for extra bases. He walked two and struck out four.
Matthew LeCroy and Corey Koskie hit solo homers for the Twins, who have lost 15 of 21 and again failed to build momentum from an emotional win -- a 9-2 victory over Cleveland on Friday that featured a bench-clearing scuffle and five ejections.
The Twins beat Kansas City 16-2 on June 19, then lost the next two to Milwaukee. An 11th-inning comeback victory over the Chicago White Sox 6-5 on June 25 was followed by two straight defeats. And a 10th-inning rally past the Brewers last Sunday preceded four consecutive losses.
"Another pretty tough night," manager Ron Gardenhire said.
Blake set career highs for hits and RBIs. He hit a two-run double off Mays (8-6) in the first inning, an RBI single in the third and a double in the fifth. Blake added a solo homer off Grant Balfour in the seventh and a three-run shot off J.C. Romero in the ninth.
"I think I've reached the point where I'm mad if I'm not in the lineup," Blake said. "I just want to matter, and I want to contribute."
Staring third baseman
Blake, a journeyman who got 58 at-bats with the Twins from 2000-02, has 10 homers and 35 RBIs as the Indians' starting third baseman this year. He made the team as a non-roster invitee to spring training.
"He's been outstanding for us defensively throughout the course of the season and has done nothing but ramp up offensively," manager Eric Wedge said. "Continues to get better."
Mays lasted only 50 pitches and three innings, allowing six hits, five runs and a walk as his ERA climbed to 6.57.
Johan Santana, who's 4-1 with a 2.86 ERA in 30 appearances (three starts), will replace him in the rotation Friday at Anaheim.
"Maybe we can get Jo-Jo straightened out and go from there," said Gardenhire, whose starters have a 7.44 ERA and just four wins in their last 20 games. "We've had a lot of problems right now with our starting staff. Everyone knows it. They know it."
Not available
Neither Mays nor Santana were available afterward in a near-deserted clubhouse.
"It's not stuff -- it's confidence," said pitching coach Rick Anderson, who dismissed any lingering elbow problems as a factor in Mays' struggles. "That's not even an issue now."
Lawton hit an opposite-field homer with one out in the first, Blake doubled in two runs and Tim Laker drove in another with a groundout to put the Indians up 4-0 after one.
With two outs and one on in the third, Mays gave up a single to Blake that left fielder Dustan Mohr scooped on one hop. The throw home, up the line, bounced in front of catcher A.J. Pierzynski and skidded away for an error on Mohr as Ben Broussard scored from second to make it 5-0.
Not a lot of quality starts
Mays, who signed a $20 million, four-year contract in January 2002 and spent half of last season on the disabled list with an elbow injury, has made quality starts (six innings or more, three runs or fewer) in just seven of 18 outings this year.
He's given up 18 runs over his last three starts, lasting a total of 8 2-3 innings.
Santana gave up a two-out RBI single to Lawton and a two-run homer to Bradley in the fourth that put Cleveland up 8-1. Brandon Phillips drove in a run in the fifth with a single.
Santana gave up six hits and four runs in three innings, though he struck out six.
"We were hoping he could come in and get some confidence, but he couldn't do it either," Gardenhire said.
CLEVELANDMINNESOTA
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Crisp lf5110Kielty rf3000
Lawton rf5222Mntkw 1b3010
Brdley cf4342Mrneau 1b1000
Spncer dh5110Koskie 3b3111
Brssrd 1b4320Gomez 3b1000
Blake 3b5357THnter cf3000
Laker c5001Hcking cf0000
BPhllps 2b4011LeCroy dh4111
Srensen 2b0000Mohr lf3010
Peralta ss5000Przyns c3010
CGzmn ss4000
Rivas 2b3010
Totals42131613Totals31262
Cleveland401310103--13
Minnesota010100000--2
E--Mohr (4). DP--Cleveland 2, Minnesota 1. LOB--Cleveland 5, Minnesota 6. 2B--Spencer (9), Broussard (8), Blake 2 (18), Mientkiewicz (22). 3B--Rivas (6). HR--Lawton (13), Bradley (7), Blake 2 (10), Koskie (14), LeCroy (9). SB--Crisp (6).
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Cleveland
BriAnderson W,6-6762214
Boyd100011
Riske100010
Minnesota
Mays L,8-6365510
Santana364406
Balfour211104
Romero133311
HBP--by Riske (Pierzynski), by Mays (Broussard). Umpires--Home, Bill Hohn; First, Tim Timmons; Second, Eric Cooper; Third, Matt Hollowell. T--2:33. A--20,273.