BASEBALL TWINS 4, INDIANS 0 Santana finishes sweep for Twins

Cleveland shut out for the second time during home series.

Ervin Santana CLEVELAND — and Minnesota made themselves at home in Cleveland. The Twins and Indians have been gracious hosts so far this year.

Santana struck out seven in six innings, Jason Castro drove in three runs and Minnesota swept Cleveland with a 4-0 victory on Sunday.

Santana (10-4) allowed nine hits, but Cleveland’s lineup struggled again. The Indians were shut out twice, went 1 for 23 with runners in scoring position and stranded 30 baserunners in the weekend series.

It was one sweet stay on Lake Erie for the Twins, who were swept in a four-game

set against the Indians at Target Field last weekend. Minnesota moved a half-game ahead of Cleveland for the division lead.

“We talked about how we got embarrassed at home,” said second baseman Brian Dozier, who hit agame-win- ning homer in Saturday’s 4-2 victory. “So we wanted to stick it to them here. We

didn’t just want to win the series, we wanted to sweep. We wanted to stomp on their throats.”

The Twins hadn’t swept a three-game series in Cleveland since 1991.

Josh Tomlin (4-9) allowed four runs in 5⅔ innings for Cleveland, which was coming off a 7-1 road trip.

“It’s disappointing,” Tomlin said. “We had a chance to kind of take a step forward and spread it out a little bit and we didn’t take advantage of that at all.”

Both teams have dominated on the road in the season series. The Twins have won five of six at Progressive Field while the Indians have won all seven games in Minnesota. Minnesota is 23-9 on the road while Cleveland is 15-20 at home.

“We couldn’t keep a line moving,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “We were certainly able to get our hits, but we never strung anything together.” Cleveland’s hit with a run

ner in scoring position came in the fourth, but didn’t produce a run. Dozier knocked down Jackson’s one-out grounder behind second

base and Lonnie Chisenhall moved to third.

“The key is you can’t try to do too much,” Santana said.