Rays 5, Indians 0
David Price struck out a career-high 12 in seven innings while Casey Kotchman and Sam Fuld belted two-run homers in the second, leading the Tampa Bay Rays to a 5-0 win over the Cleveland Indians on Friday night.
Price (6-4) continued his dominance of the visiting Indians, who have lost three in a row. The lefthander is 4-0 lifetime against Cleveland and has held the club to two runs in 15 innings in two starts this season.
Price allowed four hits and walked two.
Coming off a 2-5 road trip, the Rays jumped on Josh Tomlin (6-2) in the second. Matt Joyce, who had three hits, led off with a double and scored on Kotchman's one-out homer to right. Following a single by Sean Rodriguez, Fuld lined a homer down the right-field line.
Tomlin gave up four runs and 10 hits in six innings.
Joyce, who raised his American League-leading batting average to .377, had an RBI single in the seventh.
Carlos Santana, who was dropped to seventh in the lineup by Indians manager Manny Acta, broke an 0-for-19 slump with a second-inning double. Grady Sizemore, who had been out since May 10 with a knee injury, returned to the lineup but was hitless in four at-bats.