A.L. CENTRAL Blake finishes 5-for-5 for Tribe

His five hits included two home runs and seven RBIs in a rout of the Twins.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Casey Blake went 5-for-5 with two homers and seven RBIs against his former team, leading the Cleveland Indians past the struggling Minnesota Twins 13-2 Saturday night.
Matt Lawton -- another former Twin -- and Milton Bradley homered for the Indians, who got seven solid innings from starter Brian Anderson (6-6).
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.
Career highs
Blake set career highs for hits and RBIs. He hit a two-run double off Joe 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.
In what might have been a last chance to save his spot in the rotation, Mays lasted only 50 pitches and three innings. Allowing six hits, five runs and a walk, his ERA climbed to 6.57.
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.
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.
Johan Santana, the obvious replacement if Mays is indeed removed from the rotation, gave up a two-out RBI single in the fourth to Lawton that tipped off the top of a leaping Cristian Guzman's glove at shortstop.
A two-run homer by Bradley, the next batter, put Cleveland ahead 8-1, and 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.
Roster moves
The Indians purchased the contracts of left-hander Jason Stanford and right-hander Jose Santiago from Triple-A Buffalo on Saturday and designated left-hander Nick Bierbrodt for assignment.
Stanford, who was 8-3 with a 3.18 ERA for Buffalo, will make his major league debut Sunday against Minnesota. He took the roster spot of right-hander Ricardo Rodriguez, who was optioned to Buffalo on Wednesday after posting a 5.73 ERA in 15 starts.
Santiago was 0-1 with a 3.94 ERA in 16 relief appearances during an earlier stint this year with the Indians before being sent to the International League club May 4.
Bierbrodt gave up five earned runs over eight innings in five appearances.
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).
IPHRERBBSO
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.