Indians snap 4-game skid

Associated Press

HOUSTON

Corey Kluber struck out a career-high 14 in seven innings and the Cleveland Indians halted their four-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.

Kluber (16-9) allowed one run and seven hits to earn his third straight win. His previous high for strikeouts was 13 against the Chicago White Sox on May 4.

Yan Gomes’ two-run homer off Darin Downs in the sixth increased Cleveland’s lead to 4-1.

Cody Allen got the last out in the eighth and pitched the ninth for his 21st save.

Michael Bourn scored on Carlos Santana’s groundout in the first, and the Indians went up 2-1 in the fourth when Lonnie Chisenhall scored on an error by Robbie Grossman after Gomes singled to left field.

Houston’s Jose Altuve broke Craig Biggio’s club record for hits in a season with his 211th of the year, a single up the middle in the seventh. Altuve tied the record with a double down the left-field line in the fifth.

The 18,381 in attendance gave Altuve a standing ovation for about a minute before he tipped his helmet in both instances. Fireworks went off in the seventh after the record-breaking hit.

After the fifth inning, Altuve went over to Biggio, who was sitting with Nolan Ryan to the right of home plate, and shook his hand.

Marwin Gonzalez tied it at 1 in the first with an RBI single to score Altuve, who reached on a fielder’s choice. Alex Presley’s RBI single in the eighth cut the Cleveland lead to 4-2.

Nick Tropeano (1-1) gave up two runs — one earned — and four hits with four strikeouts in five innings.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Indians: INF Zach Walters (right intercostal) had an MRI and “structurally he’s good,” manager Terry Francona said. “They checked his ribs, things like that, so he’s OK there. So we know it’s soft tissue; now they’ve just got to see how he responds and I think the trainers think this might be pretty quick.” . OF Ryan Raburn (left knee) flew back to Cleveland to have an MRI.

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