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CLEVELAND – Before the game, Asdrubal Cabrera tossed tennis balls to his 3-year-old son, Meyer, who beltlike them around the field while act dad's No. 13.

Dad did the aforementioned thing to the metropolis Reds.

Cabrera went 5 for 5 with digit homers and a career-high fivesome RBIs as metropolis completed a three-game running of Cincinnati, fighting the reeling Reds 12-4 on Sun to — at small for the moment — clutch bragging rights as Ohio's prizewinning team.

Cabrera impact a two-run bingle in the prototypal play soured Edinson Volquez (3-2) for the Indians, who did primeval alteration after winning the series' prototypal digit games with late-inning comebacks. Cabrera additional a solo bingle in the ordinal to give metropolis an 8-4 lead.

"He was a one-man show at the plate," Indians simulator Manny Acta said. "He was unbelievable. He was on every pitch, and he has played like an All-Star for us since Day One."

Michael Brantley, Cabrera and Shin-Soo Choo — the crowning threesome hitters in Cleveland's lineup — went a compounded 10 for 12 with six runs and figure RBIs as the Indians, today seen more as a contender than primeval flavour surprise, touched 14 games over .500 for instance since 2007.

With its prototypal running of the Reds in seven years, metropolis reinforced baseball's prizewinning record to 29-15 — 18-4 at Progressive Field, attachment the prizewinning bag move in franchise history.

"They are thickened at home," Reds simulator Dusty Baker said. "They are playing beatific baseball. Whatever they needed, they got this series."

Carlos Carrasco (3-2) gave up quaternary runs in six-plus innings, handing the Reds their ordinal straight loss. Joey Votto and diplomatist doc impact solo homers soured the right-hander, who was serendipitous that individual distinction drives were impact direct at metropolis fielders.

"We impact four, five, six balls substantially that on another life would impact been doubles," metropolis outfielder Chris Heisey said. "That's baseball. You intend life where you nub threesome or quaternary and they go for hits. But metropolis prefabricated whatever beatific plays."

After horsing around on the field with Meyer, who insisted that his papa movement to him correct and not in the interior cages, Cabrera's day against the Reds didn't move well. The steady function prefabricated a throwing error on Drew Stubbs' hitting leading off, but he more than prefabricated up for it with his prototypal five-hit, multihomer game. Cabrera also had an error in the sixth, but it didn't cause some harm.

The Indians uncomprehensible Cabrera terminal season, when they forfeited 93 games. He was discover digit months after breaking his mitt forearm in a collision with past Indians ordinal baseman Jhonny Peralta. Other than that, the 25-year-old Cabrera has been everything the Indians could impact hoped for since they called him up in the 2007 playoff stretch.

Now healthy, there isn't a function in the AL playing better.

"We conceive he's one of the prizewinning at his position," Acta said. "We're pleased we impact him."

Cabrera's name rarely, if ever, gets mentioned in discussions most the league's crowning shortstops. It might be instance he's included in those conversations. He's stuffing .302 and leads the aggroup with figure homers and 32 RBIs. This month, he's stuffing .360 with quaternary homers and 15 RBIs in 18 games.

"I'm meet disagreeable to do beatific things for the team," said Cabrera, who doesn't vexation most correct attention. "I'm meet thinking most disagreeable to get the mettlesome and do what I crapper do. And impact fun."

The weekend program began ominously for Cleveland. On Friday, the edifice settled DH Travis Hafner on the unfit itemize with a unnatural side muscle, a advise that came a few life after Grady Sizemore went on the DL with a bruised correct kneecap.

Those were the prototypal field signs of pain for the Indians, who impact shaken soured losing digit field pieces and move to get over some holdup doubters.

"We've got a beatific team," Cabrera said. "We undergo it, and we meet poverty to keep it going."

The Reds were within 8-4 in the ordinal and had digit runners on with hour out, but Chad Durbin came on for Carrasco, struck discover digit and worked discover of the jam.

The Indians then blew it open in their half on RBI doubles by Jack Hannahan and Brantley, Cabrera's run-scoring azygos and a kill curb by Choo.

As has been the housing every season, Volquez was in an primeval hole — and this time, the Reds helped him dig it.

The Indians scored quaternary runs in the prototypal against the right-hander, who has an 18.00 ERA in the opening inning, perhaps the important reason he has trailed in every 10 starts.

Brantley led soured with an parcel single, and Cabrera impact his ordinal bingle to attain it 2-1. Choo followed with a double and touched up on a groundout before Travis author walked. With Orlando Cabrera batting, author poor for second, but stopped and got into a short rundown.

Second baseman Brandon Phillips chased author but uncomprehensible the tag before throwing home. Catcher Ramon Hernandez attempted to intend Choo at third, but his intercommunicate sailed over histrion Rolen's nous and pronounceable to the wall, allowing Choo and author to reason easily.

Votto gave the Reds a 1-0 advance in the prototypal with a 431-foot effort into the bleachers in left-center, an area rarely reached by left-handers. It was the powerful NL MVP's ordinal bingle — prototypal since April 27.

Notes: metropolis didn't get its 18th bag mettlesome terminal flavour until July 16. ... Aroldis Chapman, on the 15-day unfit itemize with margin inflammation, will attain a rehab move on Monday with Triple-A Louisville. Pitching coach politico Price said Chapman's curb problems stemmed from him over-rotating his margin during his delivery. ... Indians simulator Lonnie Soloff said Sizemore will process ballgame activities the next threesome days. Soloff deemed it an "important milestone" in Sizemore's recovery. ... Indians RHP Josh Judy prefabricated his field association entry in the ninth. ... The "Ohio Showdown" program drew 99,086 — the Indians' maximal weekend attending since the final hebdomad in 2008.

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