AMHERST, Ohio -- Saying Christine Bohan is one of a kind might be an understatement. "My college coach thinks I might be the only one in the country, but I'm not sure about that," said the senior from Avon Lake.

AMHERST, Ohio -- Saying Christine Bohan is one of a kind might be an understatement.

"My college coach thinks I might be the only one in the country, but I'm not sure about that," said the senior from Avon Lake.

What makes Bohan unique is the events in which she competes in track meets, demonstrating an unusual blend of talent that was on display Friday in the rain-soaked Division I regional meet at Amherst.

Battling two rain delays and a steady light rain for most of the meet, the teams from St. Edward and Amherst won the team titles. The Eagles had a major dose of adversity Wednesday when their top-ranked 4x100-meter relay failed to finish the race. However, St. Edward still dominated the meet with 96 points, well ahead of St. Ignatius, which was second with 57.

The girls from Amherst won their first track regional crown in school history, scoring 75 points to easily outdistance Medina (47). The top-four finishers in each event qualified to compete next week in the state meet at Ohio State.

But while the winning teams were going about their business in a conventional way, Bohan was attempting to make it to the state meet in four field events, the shot put, discus, high jump and pole vault. It's a combination of events that, quite frankly, is never seen.

"It's rare, really rare," said Avon Lake coach Yvonne Saul-Craigo. "I don't think we'll see another one anytime soon. She's a unique athlete."

Bohan, who signed with Virginia to primarily compete in the throws, just missed making it to Columbus in her four events, taking third in the shot put and pole vault and fourth in the high jump. She struggled in the discus Friday, throwing 17 feet less than her season's best to place fifth, missing a state berth by 13 inches.

"The discus just wasn't working for me today," Bohan said. "I couldn't get my footwork right and my releases were not what I wanted. The weather affected me a little bit, but I think it was more me than the weather."

Though somewhat disappointed by the results of the discus, Bohan is excited about her prospects in the state meet. Last year she qualified in the same three events, finishing seventh in the high jump, ninth in the pole vault and 14th in the shot put.

"I've been holding back in the three events because I want to peak at the state meet," Bohan said. "Last year I was a little worn out at the state meet but I think this year will be different."

Not much was different for the boys from St. Edward, as the defending state champions won six events and placed second in four others. The winners were Steele Wasik in both hurdles, Aaron Zedella in both throws, Shaun Crawford in the 100 and Anthony Young in the 200. The seconds came from Young in the 100, Crawford in the 200, Michael Navratil in the 800 and the 4x400 relay of Frank Schenkelberg, Wasik, Soloman Warfield and Young.

The Eagles were able to get past the dropped baton in the 4x100 relay and appear primed to make a run at another state title.

"You know that something always goes wrong at a track meet," Wasik said. "We just had to forget about it and pull together. Track doesn't look like a team sport, but it really is. We just pulled everybody together and did our jobs."

Amherst's girls showed great depth, winning five events and qualifying in two others. The first places came from senior Sara Moore in both hurdles, junior Sher Champe in the 400 and the teams of Brianna Shagovac, Lindsey Sands, Becki Stuckart and Champe in the 4x200 relay and Sands, Alexis Szivan, Shagovac and Champe in the 4x400. Cassie Vince placed second in the 3,200, and Szivan was third in the 800.

"Every one of them performed extremely well," Amherst coach Rob Glatz said. "We've been working all season to peak at the right time. From Day One, we've talked about how we want to give 100 percent in everything, and that translates into giving 100 percent in every event. It created an environment for success and it just kept perpetuating throughout the season."

Midpark's boys had two regional champions, with Lou Styles winning the 1,600 and Aaron Owens taking the pole vault in a meet record 15 feet, 8 inches. Local teams also won both 4x100 relays, with Lorain's Jocelynn Rogers, Lamia Scott, Tierra Goodman and Andresja Dearmas taking the girls crown and Enzo Cannata, Pat Jeffries, Dan Way and James Norris winning for St. Ignatius.

Berea's Dan Zupan won the 800. Brunswick's Tyler Menear defended his regional crown in the 3,200, while Bay's Maddie Britton won the same race among the girls. Other area winners were North Olmsted's Becky Szabo in the long jump and Strongsville's Cassie Martin in the high jump.

Joe Magill is a freelance writer in Auburn Township.

Class AAA: Indianapolis 11, Columbus 0 Clippers starter Joe Martinez was blistered for 16 hits and 10 runs in 51/3 innings in the loss to the Indians. Class AA: Akron 7, Reading 5 The Aeros scored four runs in the eighth to top the Phils. Tyler Holt and Ronnie Rodriguez had three RBI apiece. Class A Advanced: Winston-Salem 8,...

Class AAA: Indianapolis 11, Columbus 0 Clippers starter Joe Martinez was blistered for 16 hits and 10 runs in 51/3 innings in the loss to the Indians.

Class AA: Akron 7, Reading 5 The Aeros scored four runs in the eighth to top the Phils. Tyler Holt and Ronnie Rodriguez had three RBI apiece.

Class A Advanced: Winston-Salem 8, Carolina 3 Mudcats reliever Francisco Jimenez gave up three hits and two runs in 21/3 innings to absorb the loss.

Class A: Lake County 1, Dayton 0 Dorssys Paulino's RBI in the sixth inning lifted the Captains. Starter Mason Radeke went five innings, giving up one hit, striking out seven and walking one.

Highlights include Indians' afternoon home game against Tampa Bay, third-round golf at the Memorial Tournament, two NHL playoff games, and Miami at Indiana in Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference championship round.

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ARENA FOOTBALL

8 p.m. CLEVELAND GLADIATORS at New Orleans, FM/92.3

10 p.m. San Jose at Spokane, CBSSN

AUTO RACING

10 a.m. FedEx 400 practice, Speed Channel

11 a.m. 5-Hour Energy 200 qualifying, ESPN2

1 p.m. FedEx 400 "Happy Hour Series," Speed Channel

2:30 p.m. 5-Hour Energy 200, ESPN

3:30 p.m. Dual in Detroit, race 1, WEWS

5 p.m. Summernationals qualifying, part I (tape), ESPN

5 p.m. GRAND-AM 200 (tape), Speed Channel

1 a.m. (Sun.) Summernationals qualifying, part II (tape), ESPN2

BASEBALL

1:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at CLEVELAND INDIANS, SportsTime Ohio; AM/1100, FM/100.7

4 p.m. Detroit at Baltimore, MLB Network

6:35 p.m. AKRON AEROS at Reading, AM/1350

7 p.m. LAKE COUNTY CAPTAINS at Dayton, AM/1330

7 p.m. Boston at N.Y. Yankees, WJW

BOXING

10 p.m. Braulio Santos vs. Derrick Wilson, Fox Sports Ohio

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Noon Teams to be determined, ESPNU

3 p.m. Teams to be determined, ESPNU

5 p.m. Teams to be determined, ESPN2

8 p.m. Teams to be determined, ESPN2

8 p.m. Teams to be determined, ESPNU

11 p.m. Teams to be determined, ESPNU

COLLEGE RUGBY

3 p.m. Collegiate Championship, pool play, WKYC

COLLEGE SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES

Noon Florida vs. Nebraska, ESPN2

2 p.m. Michigan vs. Arizona State, ESPN2

7 p.m. Teams to be determined, ESPN

9 p.m. Teams to be determined, ESPN

GOLF

8 a.m. Nordea Masters, Golf Channel

12:30 p.m. Memorial Tournament, Golf Channel

2:30 ShopRite Classic, Golf Channel

3 p.m. Memorial Tournament, Golf Channel

6:30 p.m. Principal Charity Classic (tape), Golf Channel

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS RUGBY

11:30 p.m. State final, St. Edward vs. Cin. Moeller (tape), TWCS

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS LACROSSE

7 p.m. Division I state final (tape), TWCS

8:30 p.m. Division II state final (tape), TWCS

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS RUGBY

10 p.m. State final, St. Joseph vs. Parma (tape), TWCS

MAJOR LEAGUE LACROSSE

7:30 p.m. Hamilton at Chesapeake, CBSSN

NBA CONFERENCE FINALS

8:30 p.m. East, Game 6, Miami at Indiana, TNT

NHL CONFERENCE FINALS

5 p.m. West, Game 1, L.A. at Chicago, NBCSN

8 p.m. East, Game 1, Boston at Pittsburgh, WKYC

SOCCER

7:30 p.m. MLS, Houston at COLUMBUS CREW, Fox Sports Ohio

TENNIS

6 a.m. French Open, third round, Tennis Channel

Noon French Open, third round, WKYC

TRACK AND FIELD

4:30 p.m. Prefontaine Classic, WKYC

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DUBLIN, Ohio – It's Moving Day at the Memorial golf tournament. Saturday features not only the third round but also the conclusion of the second round due to numerous weather delays Friday.

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The Tampa Bay Rays crack three homers and hold the Indians to one hit in a 9-2 victory. The game ended at 2:53 a.m.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Indians figured to have caught a break when rain delays Friday night forced the Tampa Bay Rays to shelve lefty Matt Moore after one inning. Moore entered at 8-0 with a 2.21 ERA.

The Indians failed to capitalize, though, because they brought virtually nothing to the plate against the Rays bullpen. Three Tampa Bay relievers combined with Moore on a one-hitter in a 9-2 victory at Progressive Field.

Nick Swisher grounded to third at 2:53 a.m. for the final out. Bad weather accounted for three delays totaling 4 hours, 49 minutes.

The Tribe (29-25) had won two in a row.

James Loney hit two homers as the Rays (30-24) improved to 3-1 against the Tribe.

"It's just another game and you move on,'' Indians third baseman Mark Reynolds said. "It's weird, but it's part of baseball. I'd rather play tonight than have a doubleheader sometime later in the year. The worst thing about it is, we need to play in about nine hours.''

The middle game of the series is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. today. Weather could be a factor again; it is why both clubs and the umpires went to extraordinary lengths to finish the opener.

Indians manager Terry Francona said he was not sure how close the umpires came to calling for a postponement.

"I thought they handled it very well,'' Francona said. "There was a ton of cooperation on their part trying to ensure that, if we played, we played nine, which I think is good. They took a lot of things into consideration.''

After a 2-hour, 39-minute delay, the game resumed at the start of the bottom of the second inning. There was no score.

The Tribe went quietly in the second against former Indian Jamey Wright, who had replaced Moore. Wright delivered his first pitch to Swisher at 12:13.

The Rays made plenty of noise in the third against lefty Scott Barnes, who had replaced Indians starter Corey Kluber. They scored five runs -- all with two outs. Matt Joyce hammered a two-run homer to right-center at 12:26, Kelly Johnson walked, Evan Longoria had an RBI double to left-center and Loney hit a two-run homer to right.

Tribe fans remaining in the stands let Barnes know of their displeasure, booing lustily. They had not stuck around to watch the home nine get routed.

Joyce, Johnson and Loney are left-handed batters. Lefties entered at 1-for-12 with one homer against Barnes.

"I felt fine,'' Barnes said. "I tried to be aggressive and stay in the zone, but, unfortunately, I left a few balls up and paid for it.''

Barnes struck out Luke Scott to end the half-inning. Matt Albers replaced him to begin the fourth. Barnes allowed the five runs on four hits, walked one and struck out two.

"The inning was set up nice, with all the lefties,'' Francona said. "We were hoping for some length with him, to get us to the middle of the game where we could keep the bullpen in order. It didn't work that way. Tough night.''

Francona, as politely as possible, pinned some of his club's offensive struggles on Tampa Bay's outburst.

"After a long layoff, all of a sudden we're down five,'' he said. "The inning kind of took the starch out of us.''

Francona said "we need to go in and visit a little bit'' about available arms for today. Translation: A roster move is almost certain. Barnes seemingly would be on the move.

The combination of Moore and Wright, a non-roster invitee to spring training, was perfect through four innings. Wright needed a total of 17 pitches to get through the second and third.

The Tribe finally solved Wright in the fifth. Swisher led off with a five-pitch walk and advanced to second when Rays third baseman Longoria failed to handle Reynolds' grounder. The tough chance for Longoria was scored an error.

Josh Lueke relieved Wright. After Carlos Santana flied out, the runners moved up on Lueke's wild pitch. Yan Gomes delivered a sacrifice fly.

Ryan Raburn notched the Tribe's first hit, an RBI double to right. He struck the ball well but got a break when right fielder Joyce misjudged the trajectory as he headed to the wall.

Raburn, who has been bothered by leg cramps, hobbled into second. Head trainer Lonnie Soloff checked on him. Raburn remained in the game. Drew Stubbs grounded out.

Wright's line fit the occasion: three innings, zero hits, two runs, zero earned runs, one walk, four strikeouts.

Michael Bourn led off the Tribe sixth with a four-pitch walk. On a full-count pitch to Mike Aviles, Bourn took off. Aviles swung and missed and the Rays caught Bourn in a rundown.

Bourn proved elusive and thought he had avoided the tag on the way back to first. Multiple umpires disagreed. Bourn and Francona argued at 1:45. The umpires huddled, then upheld the call. Replays, not applicable in this case, appeared to support Bourn.

Loney homered off Brian Shaw in the eighth. The Rays scored three off Rich Hill in the ninth.

Indians batters finished zero singles, three walks and eight strikeouts. Wright earned the victory and Cesar Ramos the save.

"(Tampa Bay relievers) were good,'' Reynolds said, "but I think we swung at a lot of their pitches instead of waiting them out. We needed to do a better job of putting good at-bats together.''

Rain delayed first pitch by almost two hours. Kluber threw a strike to Ben Zobrist at 9:02. Kluber worked a 1-2-3 first that included two strikeouts.

Rain returned by the end of the inning. Kluber retired the first two in the second before play was halted at 9:18.

Play resumed at 9:31, but the rain kept coming. Kluber struggled with his grip as he walked Scott, then got Desmond Jennings to line to second. The umpires called for the tarp again at 9:34. Yes, it's true: The teams competed for three minutes.

"I had all my pitches working and felt comfortable,'' Kluber said, "You try your best to stay loose, but the delay just got too long.''

Dollar-dog-fueled fans were able to counter boredom by watching the Tigers-Orioles game from Baltimore on the scoreboard big screen. The Tigers squandered a two-run lead in the ninth inning and lost, 7-5. Cheers followed Chris Dickerson's game-winning homer, which dropped Detroit into a first-place tie with Cleveland at 29-24 for the time being.

As of 11:00, fans could purchase two hot dogs for $1 while supplies lasted.

At 11:25, in an interesting snapshot, Francona, Rays manager Joe Maddon, two umpires and Indians General Manager Chris Antonetti chatted in left field for five minutes. They were checking field conditions.

No surprise that ballpark operations postponed the postgame fireworks show.

Kluber entered at 3-3 with a 4.57 ERA. He was coming off a terrific performance in Boston last Sunday, when he allowed one run on three hits in 6 2/3 innings and struck out 10 in a no-decision. The Red Sox rallied in the ninth inning to win, 6-5.

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Lonnie Chisenhall homers and hits two doubles for Class AAA Columbus in a 10-9 loss to Indianapolis.

Class AAA:

Indianapolis 10, Columbus 9 (10)

Columbus 3B Lonnie Chisenhall (.371) homered and doubled twice in a loss to the visiting Indians. Clippers starting pitcher Carlos Carrasco (3.21) got shelled for nine runs (eight earned) on nine hits in four innings.

Class AA: Akron 5, Reading 3 Aeros 3B Nate Spears (.200) doubled and drove in three runs in a win over the host Fightin' Phils. Akron starting pitcher Brett Brach (2-2, 4.67) allowed two runs on three hits in 51/3 innings.

Class A Advanced: Winston-Salem 3, Carolina 2 Mudcats CF Tyler Naquin (.312) had three hits, including two doubles as visiting Carolina lost to the Dash.

Class A: Lake County 7, Dayton 3 Jake Sisco (2-4, 3.27) allowed one run over 51/3 innings and CF Logan Vick (.270) had two RBI and scored two runs to lead the Captains past the host Dragons.

Independent: Joliet 3, Lake Erie 1 (10) The visiting Jammers scored two runs on five walks in the 10th inning to beat the Crushers.

The Cleveland Glatiators fall behind, 35-13, on the way to dropping to 2-8 on the season.

Garrett Galuszka

Special to The Plain Dealer

New Orleans -- The Cleveland Gladiators lost to the New Orleans VooDoo, 69-40, Saturday night at Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The VooDoo caught fire early behind the quarterback-receiver duo of Kurt Rocco and Donovan Morgan, which connected on four scoring drives in the first half.

Cleveland struggled as the defense allowed the VooDoo (2-8) to score on six offensive drives in the opening half, while the New Orleans' defense troubled Chris Dieker in the pocket, sacking the newly appointed starter three times before the half.

"Their strength is their defensive line and we just didn't protect real well," Gladiators coach Steve Thonn said. "We tried to mix it up the best we could with short throws and deep throws, but they did a good job of getting to him [Dieker]."

The Gladiators found themselves down, 7-0, after New Orleans' opening kickoff took an awkward bounce off the goal post, return man Carlese Franklin looked slow getting to the ball and the VooDoo recovered. Rocco, a Mount Union alum who threw 72 TD passes for the Gladiators in 2011, then connected with Morgan on the first offensive play for a touchdown.

"In this game, you have to score almost every possession," Dieker said. "When you give the other team more possessions than you have, it makes it tough on you. The kick off the bar was unfortunate. Sometimes, it just bounces the other team's way."

Cleveland answered with a 25-yard touchdown strike by Dieker to Thyron Lewis to tie the game at 7, but New Orleans quickly regained the lead less than two minutes later as Rocco found Morgan for the VooDoo's second touchdown of the game.

Franklin redeemed himself by pulling in a 26-yard touchdown reception which should have tied the game at 14, had it not been for a missed extra point by former Ohio State kicker Aaron Pettrey.

At the end of the first quarter, the Gladiators were trailing, 21-13, and they wouldn't score again until the final minute of the first half.

The VooDoo scored two second-quarter touchdowns to go up, 35-13, before Cleveland was able to get on the board again, with Dieker connecting with Dominick Goodman on a 4-yard touchdown reception.

"It was really not one play that changed any kind of momentum, it wasn't a one play thing," Thonn said. "They came out and took it to us."

The Gladiators went into the locker room down, 42-20, after VooDoo quarterback Rocco hit his sixth touchdown pass of the game with nine seconds left in the half.

Cleveland would score first in the second half on a 9-yard touchdown run by fullback Derik Steiner, but the VooDoo quickly shut down any hopes of a comeback with two consecutive touchdowns to put the game out of reach, 56-26, with less than two minutes left in the third quarter.

Roy Hibbert has 24 points and 11 rebounds as the Pacers beat the Heat, 91-77.

View full sizeRoy Hibbert of Indiana scored 24 points Saturday as the Pacers beat Miami to send the Eastern Conference finals to a deciding Game 7.Michael Conroy, Associated Press 

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana staggered Miami with one more big punch Saturday night.

Now the Pacers have a fighting chance to pull off a stunning playoff upset.

Roy Hibbert did everything but pull out the boxing gloves in Game 6, finishing with 24 points and 11 rebounds, and continually contesting Miami's shots to help Indiana stave off elimination with an emphatic 91-77 victory over the defending champs.

Paul George scored 28 points, had eight rebounds and five assists, and the Pacers held Miami to 36.1 percent shooting as they booked a trip back to Miami for Game 7 on Monday night.

"Myself and David (West), we throw ourselves in the fray, in the paint. We like to muck it up," Hibbert said. "Paul and myself, we wanted to make sure we got this for him as well. We didn't want this to be our last game."

It wasn't.

Instead, after winning their first division crown since 2004, the Pacers are one win away from advancing to the NBA Finals for only the second time in franchise history. They lost to the Lakers 4-2 in 2000. They haven't played a decisive seventh game in the conference finals since losing to Chicago in 1998.

And amazingly, they've done it this time against the defending champions who many considered virtually invincible after winning 27 straight during the regular season, finishing with a franchise-record 66 wins and having won 23 of their last 24 road games before losing Games 4 and 6 in Indianapolis.

But the Pacers have pushed four-time MVP LeBron James and his high-scoring, high-profile teammates to the brink of elimination by punching back, and Game 6 followed a familiar story line. The Pacers had a 53-33 rebounding advantage, outscored Miami 44-22 in the paint and limited Miami's shooters to 16 of 54, 29.6 percent, from inside the arc.

James led the Heat with 29 points on 10-of-21 shooting. Nobody else scored more than 10.

How have the Pacers done it? With Hibbert controlling the inside after adding MMA training to his offseason regiment.

"Roy Hibbert is making extraordinary plays in the pocket, poise in the pocket we call it," coach Frank Vogel said. "He's getting paint catches and just having great poise, great reads. He's not plowing over guys. He had a charge in Game 5, but has been under control."

It was everything an elimination game should be. The teams traded baskets and jabs, sometimes literally, and players ignored the bumps and bruises of yet another wrestling match that has made this tough-guy series compelling.

Both teams attacked the basket, sometimes with problematic results. Indiana missed about five dunk attempts in the first half and a series of short jumpers, too, costing them precious points.

The Heat struggled, meanwhile, starting the game just 3 of 22 from inside the 3-point line. Miami's Big Three -- James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh -- went just 14 of 40. Excluding James, Miami managed only 16 baskets -- eight 3s and eight 2s.

With Chris "Birdman" Andersen suspended for the game because of a shoving incident with Indiana forward Tyler Hansbrough on Thursday, the Heat couldn't keep up with Indiana's big rebounders inside. Even Lance Stephenson, who was not effective at Miami, finished with four points, 12 rebounds and four assists.

Indiana's loud crowd created a hostile atmosphere, too. Fans chanted "Heat Are Floppers!" sporadically throughout the second half, urging the Pacers to play harder, to defend better and to make another trip home. The only way to do that is to win Game 7 and avoid a second straight playoff elimination at the hands of the Heat.

For Miami, the stakes were so high that when James was called for an offensive foul midway through the fourth quarter, he lost his cool. James protested by running from one end of the court to the other, drawing a technical foul, and when Miami assistant coach David Fizdale showed his support for the league's four-time MVP, it drew another technical.

George Hill answered by making free throws and Hibbert followed that with a layup, ending any chance of Miami making a late comeback.

James said he was trying to avoid an ejection and would up spending the last 66 seconds sitting a few seats down from the Heat bench cheering on his teammates.

"Explain it? You seen it. It was total domination by the Pacers in the third," James said when asked what happened to the league's most dominant team on Saturday. "They made a lot of shots, we didn't get too many stops and we missed some very, very easy shots."

It was a complete reversal from Game 5, when Miami took control by outscoring the Pacers 30-13 in the third.

This time, against one of the league's top offensive teams, the Pacers gave up only six points in the first eight minutes of the quarter, using a 14-2 run to turn a 40-39 halftime deficit into a 66-49 lead with 1:15 left in the quarter. Hibbert scored nine in the quarter.

Miami did close to within 68-55 after three, but it was too big a deficit to overcome -- even with James running the show.

"They just flat-out beat us in every facet of the game. They just outclassed us in that (third) quarter," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said.

The Heat rallied early in the fourth, taking advantage of Indiana's 1 for 6 start from the field. When Mike Miller hit back-to-back 3s, the Pacers' lead was down to 70-64 and when James scored on a layup with 5:54 to play, the Heat were within 72-68.

But the run ended abruptly when George hit a 3, Miami's Joel Anthony was called for a loose ball foul on the offensive end and David West grabbed an offensive rebound and scored on a dunk to extend the lead to 77-68. Then came the technical flurry that finished it off.

West scored 11 points and had 14 rebounds despite playing with an upper respiratory infection that prompted Vogel to send him home early from the Pacers' morning shootaround.

He played with a fighter's mentality and gave the Pacers one more shot at the champs.

"We've come too far not to play," West said. "I'm not feeling good now although this win helps. I'm sure I'll be better tomorrow and I'll be ready for Monday."

Notes: Miami matched its season-low point total (77), which also occurred against the Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Jan. 8. ... Miami finished the season 1-4 at Indiana, losing twice in the regular season and twice in the playoffs. ... After the game, Hibbert criticized the media for not recognizing the Pacers as a good team -- using a foul two-word expletive that will almost certainly draw a fine from the league. ... Former Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine performed the National Anthem on a harmonica.

Highlights include Indians' home game against Tampa Bay, final round of Memorial Tournament golf, United States vs. Germany soccer and Los Angeles at Chicago NHL playoff game.

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The Indians and Rays wrap their series this afternoon at Progressive Field.

 

Game 56: Indians (30-25) vs. Rays (30-25)

First pitch: 1:05 p.m. at Progressive Field, Cleveland.

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In the last three Heat games, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh have come up short as LeBron James talks of feeling as if he were with the Cavaliers once again.

Several times in the last few playoffs games, broadcasters mentioned that LeBron James must feel like he's a Cavalier once again.

After leading Miami to a victory in Game 5 over Indiana, James said, " I kind of went back to my Cleveland days."

He didn't mean it as a compliment. He supposedly left the Cavs because the talent was too thin, and because Miami's Dwyane Wade was assembling what amounted to an All-Star team that would include James and Chris Bosh.

It worked last season, when the Heat won a title -- and that took the pressure off James. No longer was he a future Hall of Fame player without a championship ring.

Of course, right after leaving the Cavaliers in the summer of 2010...back in the " The Decision" days when James seemed to be majoring in public relations disasters...he was talking about winning lots of titles..."Not four...not five...not six..."

But his team is feeling the heat of trying to win a second ring, facing Indiana in an Eastern Conference Finals Game 7 at Miami Monday night. The odds are the Heat will win.The home team tends to win Game 7 nearly 80 percent of the time.

But I must confess to taking some delight in watching the plucky, gritty Pacers making the Heat sweat. And forcing James to wonder if he'll receive any more help from Wade and Bosh in Game 7 than he did from Mo Williams, Antwan Jamison, Larry Hughes, Anderson Varejao and others in his Cavalier playoff days.

That was back when James was demanding a talent upgrade.

In Saturday's 91-77 loss, Wade and Bosh shot 4-of-19 from the field, combining for 15 points, six rebounds and one assist.

James scored 29 on 10-of-21 shooting. He's averaging 28.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.6 assists, shooting 51 percent in this series. He's been outstanding.

But lately, he feels as if he's playing alone. None of his teammates scored more than 10 points in Saturday's loss.

Miami has lost two of the last three games to Indiana. In those three games, Wade is averaging 12 points and shooting 32 percent.

Bosh is averaging 6.3 points, shooting 24 percent from the field in the last three games.

That's right, 24 percent from the power forward..

Wade is dealing with knee problems. He is a future Hall of Famer who looks as if he may be on his last leg. He also is a driven, clutch player who may find a way to rise up and deliver a major performance in Game 7.

Bosh has an aching ankle. He also has been the obvious third wheel since joining Wade and James. He tends to fade in some big games, so it's hard to know how much is the injury and how much is it Bosh being Bosh.

The message of this series is clear: even when you stack your roster, there rarely is a smooth playoff road ahead. Things go wrong. Players get hurt. Team chemistry can fizzle, and suddenly James is dominating the ball and his teammates are standing and watching.

But if that doesn't change, James will have another Cleveland flashback -- being at home while another team is in the NBA Finals.

The Rays picked apart right-hander Zach McAllister on the way to a 11-3 victory over the Indians on Sunday at Progressive Field.

View full sizeCleveland Indians manager Terry Francona gives home plate umpire Bill Welke a piece of his mind after Francona got tossed in the bottom of the fifth inning during the game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, at Progressive Field. Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Indians had two problems on Sunday afternoon. They couldn't hit Jeremy Hellickson and they couldn't figure out umpire Bill Welke's strike zone.

The two problems, with the scale heavily weighted toward Hellickson, resulted in the Indians losing to the Rays, 11-3, at Progressive Field to end a five-game homestand with a 3-2 record.

The best thing about Sunday's game? It didn't rain.

The Rays, however, proved they could beat the Indians in a monsoon and in the sunshine in taking two out of three games to win the season series, 4-2. They waded through 4 hours and 49 minutes of rain delays to beat the Indians, 9-2, in a game that finished at almost 3 a.m. Saturday. The Tribe rebounded for a sleep-deprived 5-0 victory Saturday, only to get thumped Sunday.

Hellickson (3-2, 5.59) allowed three runs on nine hits in five innings. He struck out four and didn't walk a batter.

"It was vintage Hellickson," said third baseman Mark Reynolds. "He keeps you off balance with his change-up and throws his heater [fastball] when he has to. I've faced him so many times (21 at-bats) in my career and he's frustrating to face."

If that was vintage Welke behind the plate, well, the Indians weren't tipping their cap in appreciation.

Terry Francona was ejected for the first time as Indians manager when he protested a strike against Nick Swisher in the fifth inning. That wasn't the real cause for the ejection. It was the four innings before that when Francona thought his starting pitcher, Zach McAllister, was coming out on the short end of Welke's calls.

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"I just thought his strike zone was inconsistent," said Francona, ejected for the 36th time in his career, 35 as a manager, once as a player. "I told Bill, in fairness to you, I went back and looked at the pitches because we all yell from time to time during a game.

"So I went back and looked at the pitches and I feel stronger now than when I was yelling at you from the dugout. . . . I may have cursed."

Francona, as a warmup to his main bout with Welke, argued with first base umpire Adrian Johnson and second base umpire Fieldin Culbreth, on Sam Fuld's leadoff triple in the fourth that hit the ball boy in foul territory along the right field line. The ball was in play unless the ball boy hit it intentionally.

"I understand the rule, but it got explained to me two different ways and I got agitated," said Francona.

Francona wasn't the only Indian whose strike zone didn't match Welke's.

In the third inning, with the Rays leading, 2-0, McAllister and catcher Yan Gomes thought they had Evan Longoria struck out to end the inning on a 1-2 pitch. Gomes rose from his crouch and started walking to the dugout, but Welke called the pitch a ball.

"I thought it was a good pitch, but I should have stayed down and let him make a call instead of pulling up like that," said Gomes. "I didn't mean to show him up. I apologized."

McAllister's next pitch was a ball to make it 3-2. Longoria singled on his next pitch to score Matt Joyce from second for a 3-0 lead.

At the end of the inning, McAllister talked to Welke as he walked off the mound.

"I just asked him about the location of a couple of pitches," said McAllister, 4-5, 3.43. "Sometimes you're not going to get the calls you want and sometimes you're going to get calls you don't expect to get. You just have to roll with it."

The loss ended McAllister's streak of 12 straight starts in which he pitched five or more innings while allowing three or fewer runs. He allowed five runs, four earned, on seven hits in 41/3 innings.

"That's important because it means you're being consistent and giving your team a chance to win," said McAllister. "I'll just have to go out and try and start another streak."

After a two-out double by James Looney in the first, Longoria's two-out single in the third and Jose Lobaton's infield single in the fourth that scored Fuld after his ball boy-assisted triple, the Rays led, 4-0. The Indians made it 4-3 with three two-out runs in their half of the fourth as Gomes doubled home a run and Mike Aviles singled home two more.

The Rays, however, scored seven more runs as Yunel Escobar and Evan Longoria hit two-run homers.

"They played a perfect song as the end of the game, 'Momma said there'd be days like this,' " said Reynolds. "Sometimes you just have to take your licks and move on."

Matt Kuchar won the Memorial Tournament and became the only players besides Tiger Woods to win at least two tournaments on the PGA Tour this year. That's ncie, but for the appeal of golf, Woods finsihing in a tie for 65th is not.

View full sizeMatt Kuchar, left, accepts the trophy from Jack Nicklaus after winning the Memorial Tournament on Sunday in Dublin, Ohio. Jay LaPrete, Associated Press 

DUBLIN, Ohio -- U.S. Open prep, on Jack's track.

Look at the names of some of the past winners of the Memorial Tournament: Tiger Woods with five wins, Greg Norman with two, Tom Watson, Raymond Floyd, Curtis Strange, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, Hale Irwin, Jack Nicklaus himself.

Matt Kuchar won this year's edition, closing with a 2-under-par 70 for a 12-under 276 total and a two-shot victory. His nickname is "Kooch," as in "E-koo."

He's known for smiling big and often. You would too if you had just moved up to  25th on the all-time money-winning list with all of six PGA Tour victories in 291 starts in your career.

None Kuchar's wins was in a major, although The Players Championship last year and the World Match Play this year are close-to-majors. He has been second five times, third eight. He will also be 35 next month. With a PGA Tour-best 34 top 10 finishes since 2010, Kuchar piles up the money is by being consistent.

He is this generation's Tom Kite, who won 19 times, with one major, a U.S. Open. Kite was the first player in Tour history to reach $6 million, $7 million, $8 million, and $9 million in career earnings. He ground out top 10's the way a miller grinds grain.

OK, fine. Many fans would rather watch Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson channel Arnold Palmer, playing brilliantly at times and deplorably at other times.

Here's the rest of the leaderboard after Kuchar: Michael Stanley, Gene Stallings, Dave Chappell, Old Haas, Regatta Henley, a guy named Jones, David Thompson, Chili Davis and Charl Schwartzel.

Most of these are but aliases. Their real first names are: Kyle Stanley, Scott Stallings, Kevin Chappell, Bill Haas, Russell Henley, Matt Jones, Michael Thompson, Brian Davis and, alternatives not presenting themselves, Charl Schwartzel.

This is the vanguard of golf that marches on Merion in Ardmore, Pa., later this month?

Merion is where Bobby Jones won the U.S. Amateur and completed the Grand Slam in 1930.

It is is where Ben Hogan hit his iconic 1-iron to the 72nd green at the U.S.Open in 1950. It was his 36th hole of the day, and it took place only 16 months after he was nearly killed in a car-bus crash. He made par on the daunting hole and won the playoff the next day.

It is where Lee Trevino threw the plastic snake at Nicklaus on the first playoff  tee in 1971 before beating him in the U.S. Open.

Kuchar is the first player besides Woods to win at least twice on the PGA Tour this year. Maybe he's not Bart Bryant, Roger Maltbie and Carl Pettersson, other little-knowns who popped up as past Memorial champions. But the future of golf, until this week, appeared to be its past.

Woods had won four of the seven previous tournaments he had entered this year, a ridiculous percentage of 57.1 percent. He likes the course here. He is also a latter-day Nicklaus in course management. Tiger doesn't "do" disaster holes.

 After two so-so opening rounds, however, Woods made a run at some embarrassing career worsts. He finished at 8-over 296, tied for 65th. He had another triple bogey Sunday, giving him two, to go with a brace of double bogeys, for the tournament. Woods beat only three players who made the 36-hole cut.

It sounds contrary to the spirit of competition, but golf, almost as much as the NBA, is a star vehicle. Lee Trevino once explained the popularity of the Senior (now Champions) Tour by saying fans knew the name of the guy who was sticking the tee in the ground. Most of the players on this leaderboard are familiar names only to their kith and kin.

In the 19 majors played since Woods' victory in a 91-hole marathon over Rocco Mediate at the 2008 U.S. Open, some well-regarded players, such as Padraig Harrington and Rory McIlroy (also a mess this week at 6-over 294), have won two majors. Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson have picked off one each. That's about it for fan identifcation.

Sunday, with Woods not even remotely in contention, the gallery was five-deep following him. An injury- and scandal-induced wait of almost five years for his next major victory doesn't matter to them. Media members may look upon Woods as a hypocrite and  a growing diva, but he's still the interest magnet in the game.

Asked what he needed to clean up in his game before the Open, Woods said, "Everything."

His game isn't the only thing in golf. But it's sure the biggest thing.

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Matt Langwell did not make the team in spring training, but has pitched well enough to get a chance against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.

Welcome to the big leagues. Matt Langwell walks back to the mound after givnig up a homer to Evan Longoria on the second pitch he threw in the majors.Mark Duncan, Associated Press 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Clubhouse confidential: It's unclear how much of a chance right-hander Matt Langwell is going to get in the Indians' bullpen after having his contract purchased from Class AAA Columbus on Saturday. Regardless, he's in the big leagues because he impressed the right people in spring training.

That would be manager Terry Francona and his coaching staff. They had Langwell listed among the first players to be sent to the minors, but he kept throwing strikes and getting people out.

"On the day of our first big cut, I called him in," said Francona. "His head dropped, but I told him, 'We cannot justify sending you down.' "

Baptism by homer: Langwell made his big-league debut in the eighth inning of Sunday's 11-3 loss to the Rays. His first pitch to Evan Longoria was a ball. His second was a two-run homer to Longoria, his first in 19 games.

Langwell did strike out James Loney to end the inning.

"He'll be fine," said Francona. "Now you can go out and try to compete a little bit without thinking about this being his first time."

Stat of the day: The Indians, who open a three-game series against the Yankees tonight, are 4-11 at new Yankee Stadium. They have not had a winning season in the Bronx since 2008.

-- Paul Hoynes

The No. 1 and No. 2 players in the world both shot 72 Sunday playing one group apart and chatting on a tee, leaving McIlroy in 57th and Woods in 65th.

DUBLIN, Ohio – The No. 2 golfer in the world stepped to the tee just after noon Sunday, the No. 1 golfer in the world chatting on the putting green 20 yards away. He would follow in the next group, fans lining the fairway for both.

The battle was on.

Three holes later, the battle would be engaged face-to-face.

Backed up on the 12th tee, Tiger Woods (No. 1) arrived to find Rory McIlroy (No. 2) leaning against his golf bag. Waiting.

“Can we play through?” Woods asked.

The battle was for 65th. So there was time for joking.

Stuck at the back of the pack, the two best golfers in the world played a consolation round Sunday at The Memorial. It was like LeBron and Kobe representing their teams at the NBA Draft lottery.

McIlroy's even-par 72 lifted him into a tie for 57th at 6-over par. Woods' even-par 72 lifted him into a tie for 65th at eight-over, a full eight shots clear of last place among the 73 players who made the cut. But that was also 20 shots behind winner Matt Kuchar.

Only twice before had McIlroy and Woods failed so spectacularly at the same event. At the 2010 World Golf Championship, Woods finished 78th and McIlroy was 65th. And at the 2011 PGA Championship, Woods missed the cut while McIlroy finished 64th.

Entering play Sunday, the best in the world had combined to shoot 14-over par for the week, with 20 birdies, 21 bogeys, five doubles and a triple.

So the final round, which included seven birdies, four bogeys and Woods' messy triple bogey at the par-3 12th, was average. And they took average.

“It wasn't that bad today,” said Woods, and, compared to Saturday's 79, it wasn't. “It was just one hole that cost me obviously a few shots.”

That hole was a doozy, Woods' 188-yard tee shot plugging in a back bunker. Arriving at the green and briefly surveying his lie, Woods slowed his walk, reached back to his caddy to switch clubs, then stopped to rest his hands atop his head in frustration.

He then approached the bunker, put his left leg in the sand, bent his right leg and kneeled on the grass, and whacked it. Took maybe two seconds. And it stayed in the trap, on purpose.

“I was just trying to put the ball against the face on the upslope on the other side so I had a chance to spin the next one,” Woods said. “And it actually rolled back on the bottom where there's no sand. I hit a decent shot and obviously it skipped by. And the first putt was awful. Just bad speed. The second putt I pulled.”

Tiger Woods, frustrated after a missed birdie putt on No. 10 Sunday, once again couldn't get much going, shooting a 72 Sunday after a 79 on Saturday. Jay LaPrete, AP

And that's how Tiger Woods' described a double sand-shot, three-putt triple bogey on a par three.

He had a lot of holes like that this week.

Wednesday before the tournament Woods was asked a question about his girlfriend, Olympic downhill skier Lindsey Vonn. The theme was about the fleeting moments of competition for someone like Vonn, who sees the Olympics come around once every four years, and her event last minutes, not hours.

Had it changed Woods' view at all?

“Ours is, what, four days, sometimes even five days, and it's five hours a day. Hers is two minutes. So it's very different,” Woods said. “I have some friends who ran track at a high level and world-class level and for them it was under ten seconds. And that was their job for the day.”

At its best, golf gives Woods repeated opportunities – another shot, another hole, another major.

At its worst, it's like catching an edge on the mountain and the tumble lasting for a week, not a second. The agony of defeat on a loop.

Vonn was there to take it in Sunday, kicking back in a cart driven by a tour official. Apropos of the week, as Vonn watched Woods on No. 13, another cart about 10 yards away ran over the leg of a spectator and had to load up the limping patron and drive him away. Another wreck.

That's what happens back in the pack. Woods' playing partners were ranked No. 37 (Fernando Fernandez-Castano) and No. 60 (Marc Leishman) in the world. McIlroy's were No. 387 (Brandt Jobe) and No. 1,129 (Mike Weir).

Back there, anything can happen.

Leishman banked his tee shot on the par-3 16th off the wall of green mesh tightly pulled over the new stands behind the green. It was like banging a double off the Green Monster. The ball bounced back into a bunker and Leishman got up-and-down for par.

“I thought I'd hit a high 7-iron and it was high and the wind got it and all of sudden it was 20 yards over the back of the green,” Leishman said. “I knew it was long but I didn't think it was that long. I certainly didn't think it would fly into the grandstand. (The wall) helped. Good three.”

Leishman shot a 68, beating Woods, and finished tied for 41st.

On the same hole, Weir's tee shot landed short of the green on the bank of a pond. Weir's answer was to remove his shoes and socks, wade in, nearly lose his balance twice, then regroup, chip it 30 feet past the hole and nearly make his par putt.

“There was no slope, so if I slipped at all I was going all the way in. I was teetering. I don't know how deep it was, but it was deeper than I am tall,” the 5-foot-9 Weir said.

“I made a six there (Saturday), so I didn't feel like going back to the drop zone,” Weir said. “I think (the crowd) was probably hoping I fell in. I was thinking it was 50-50 that I was going to go down.”

Weir shot a 71, beating McIlroy, and finished tied for 53rd.

So there was tension. But not exactly leaderboard tension.

Early on, the vibe around McIlroy and Woods indicated something more than a battle for 65th. They bent their knees and grimaced as birdie attempts slid by, and the crowd moaned accordingly. Out of the race on a day when the wind died down and made conditions more conducive to scoring, it seemed the chance was there for either to make a charge, even if it only would have brought them up to 30th or so.

But again, nothing was there.

Twenty-eight of the other 71 players Sunday bested their matching 72s. There was no pressure, as evidenced by their four-minute conversation on the 12th tee, where Woods pulled McIlroy's putter out of his bag and checked it out. Woods put on chapstick and stretched his right leg. McIlroy put his hands in his pockets and said something about Pebble Beach. They seemed to talk about weightlifting. And they didn't talk to anyone else.

After McIlroy hit his shot and left the tee, he looked back and gave Woods a slight nod. It was returned.

Rory McIlroy shot a 72 Sunday at The Memorial Tournament, with two birdies and two bogeys, but he did think he fixed a few issues in his game with the U.S. Open looming.Jay LaPrete, AP

No pressure. And yet nothing there. And the U.S. Open is two weeks away.

“It feels OK, actually,” McIlroy said. “I found a couple little things this weekend. I hit the ball much better today.”

Woods: “It wasn't like it was that far off today.”

McIlroy: “It doesn't feel too far away.”

Back in the pack on this Sunday, both were a long way from their familiar homes on the leaderboard.

Stallings' stalking of the leader: McIlroy had the idea that the course was there for the taking Sunday. And Scott Stallings, the first-round leader a year ago, almost took it.

“I thought one of the guys from the pack might have shot like a 65 or 66 and put themselves up there,” McIlroy said.

After starting the day at 1-under, seven shots out of Kuchar's lead, Stallings' 31 on the front nine made him that guy. He pulled within two shots of Kuchar at one point. But he couldn't sustain it, falling back with an even-par 36 on his back nine. His 67, tied for the best round of the day, left him six shots out and tied for fourth. It would have taken a 61 to force a playoff with Kuchar.

But at one point, Stallings was that hot, stringing together five straight birdies.

Asked Saturday about growing as a player in the year since losing his Memorial lead, Stallings only wanted to talk about his 75, which included an eagle, five birdies, three bogeys, two double bogeys and a triple, and how he had to get better.

Then he got eight shots better.

“Golf is a weird game,” Stallings said Sunday. “Not every day you make five birdies and an eagle and shoot 75. It was nice to come back today. Obviously, we didn't want to make any bogeys, but we wanted to be aggressive as well.”

The Cleveland Indians are starting a road trip against three tough opponents, New York, Detroit and Texas.

The Indians' Mike Aviles connects for a two-run single in the fourth inning Sunday against Tampla Bay.Chuck Crow, The Plain Dealer 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Every big-league team tries to play the schedule wearing blinders. One day at a time, no peeking allowed beyond tonight's contest.

The Indians, however, can be excused for peering into the near distance. In the next 10 days, they play three games against the Yankees in the Bronx, three against Detroit at Comerica Park and three against Texas at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The Yankees are in second place in the American League East, the Tigers are in first place in the AL Central and the Rangers sit atop the AL West.

Michael Brantley believes there is reason to fear every big-league team on the Indians' schedule, but when asked about the upcoming trip, he said, "Hey, let's go. It's time to see where we stand."

The Indians trail the Tigers by only a half-game in the AL Central following Sunday's 11-3 loss to the Rays, but they are 1-3 against the Yankees, 2-3 against Detroit and have yet to play Texas. Over the past four years, the Rangers are 25-8 against the Tribe, 12-3 in Arlington.

"We play the Yankees on Monday so that's where our energy will go," said manager Terry Francona. "Other than packing, and making sure you have enough underwear and stuff like that, there's no reason to start looking at Texas' lineup. We need to be prepared for Monday."

Mark Reynolds is not only looking forward, but behind.

"We just got done with Boston, Cincy and Tampa Bay," he said. "We're in a tough stretch right now. We just need to go and take care of business. We're right in this thing.

"No one is panicking. We're just going to go, put good at-bats together, hopefully, throughout the whole trip and win more than we lose."

Testing, testing: Closer Chris Perez and starter Brett Myers were examined Sunday by the Tribe's medical staff. There was a chance they could have thrown on Sunday, but they didn't.

Perez has been shut down since May 27 with a strained muscle in his right rotator cuff. Myers has been down since April 20 with a sore right elbow.

"Perez got a real good examination," said Francona. "He will begin throwing in about three days. We'll give him a few more days without throwing. But, again, it was a real good examination.

"Myers also got positive feedback from the doctors, but he's still not ready to throw. He's probably more like four to five days [away]."

So far, so good: Vinnie Pestano, who has replaced Perez as closer, pitched a scoreless ninth inning Saturday in the Indians' 5-0 victory over Tampa Bay. His old velocity was back.

"I was averaging around 92 mph and topped out at 93," said Pestano. "It was very encouraging."

Pestano has made two appearances since Perez went on the disabled list, but neither was a save situation.

That's not all bad because Pestano is dealing with some arm issues of his own. He was on the disabled list May 1-16 with a sore right elbow. When he was activated, his velocity had dropped from 90 to 93 mph to 87-88.

"Vinnie looked closer to being Vinnie on Saturday," said Francona.

Good ratio: Last year, Reynolds and Chris Davis were teammates on the Orioles. This year, Davis leads the AL by averaging one homer every 10.3 at-bats. Reynolds is second with a ratio of one homer every 14.2 at-bats.

"He's strong," said Reynolds of his former teammate. "He's getting into his mid-20s and is starting to figure it out. He's impressive."

Finally: Hall of Famer and former Indians pitcher Gaylord Perry, in town this weekend for a meet-and-greet with fans, threw out the first pitch Sunday. It did not slip or slide to the plate. . . . The Indians scored all three of their runs Sunday with two out. For the season, they have scored 124 two-out runs, the most in the big leagues. . . . Yan Gomes had a double, while his teammates collected 10 singles. Eleven of Gomes' 23 hits have gone for extra bases.

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The Cleveland Indians will play night games Monday and Tuesday and a day game Wednesday in Yankee Stadium.

Justin Masterson will take the mound Monday night for the Tribe at Yankee Stadium.Scott Shaw, The Plain Dealer 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On deck: Indians at Yankees

Where: Yankee Stadium, New York.

When: Monday through Wednesday.

TV/radio: SportsTime Ohio; WTAM AM/1100, WMMS FM/100.7.

Pitching matchups: RHP Justin Masterson (8-3, 3.07 ERA) vs. LHP Andy Pettitte (4-3, 3.83) Monday at 7:05 p.m.; LHP Scott Kazmir (3-2, 5.13) vs. RHP David Phelps (3-3, 4.65) Tuesday at 7:05 p.m., and RHP Corey Kluber (3-3, 4.36) vs. LHP CC Sabathia (5-4, 3.71) Wednesday at 1:05 p.m.

Season series: The Indians are 1-3 against the Yankees. The Yankees lead, 1,083-851, overall.

Indians update: They have been outscored, 32-8, by the Yankees this season. Masterson threw a four-hit shutout for their only victory. Nick Swisher is hitting .385 (5-for-13) against his old team.

Yankees update: They are hitting .305 against the Tribe this year with Robinson Cano leading the way at .421 (8-for-19) with three homers and seven RBI. Pettitte, who will come off the disabled list Monday to face the Indians, is 1-0 against them. Phelps lost to Masterson, despite allowing one run and striking out seven in 6 innings.

Injuries: Indians -- RHP Chris Perez (rotator cuff), C Lou Marson (right shoulder), RHP Brett Myers (right elbow/forearm), RHP Josh Tomlin (right elbow), RHP Frank Herrmann (right elbow) and RHP Blake Wood (right elbow) are on the disabled list. Yankees -- LHP Pettitte (left trapezius muscle), SS Eduardo Nunez (left oblique), OF Curtis Granderson (finger), RHP Michael Pineda (right shoulder), C Francisco Cervelli (right hand), SS Derek Jeter (left ankle), 3B Alex Rodriguez (left hip), LHP Cesar Cabral (left elbow) are on the disabled list.

Next: Indians open three-game series in Detroit on Friday.

-- Paul Hoynes

Matt Kuchar shoots a final round 4-under 68 for 72-hole total of 11-under 276 to post second victory of the season and the sixth of his career at the Memorial.

  DUBLIN, Ohio --Throughout his golfing career, from junior golf to college golf and onto the pros -- even when he was sent down to the minors, so to speak -- Matt Kuchar never stopped dreaming.

He dreamed of winning on the PGA Tour, not just once in a season, but twice or more. He also dreamed of winning major championships.

On a day that was filled with charges and retreats by most of those around him, Kuchar made one of those dreams come true on Sunday when he shot a final-round 4-under 68 to hold off Kevin Chappell and win the 38th Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club.

Kevin Chappell matched Kuchar with a 67 and finished second at 10-under 278 and Kyle Stanley was third at 281.

In the procees, Kuchar added credence that he capable of making his other dream come true.

One of the most consistent players in the PGA Tour this season, Kuchar put together four sub-par rounds -- including a closing 4-under 68 on Sunday -- to win by two shots with a score of 12-under 276.

It was Kuchar's second victory of the season, linking him with Tiger Woods as the only players with multiple wins in 2013. It also was his sixth career victory, with three of those coming in the last two years in significant -- but not major -- events.

That brings us to the U.S. Open, to be held June 10-16 at Merion Golf Club outside Philadelphia. Kuchar's performance this season makes him a bonafide contender.

"There were a couple of things I thought were missing from my pedigree, from my golf history," said Kuchar, whose smiling face and down-to-earth personality make him a fan favorite. "A major championship is on the list. A multiple-win season was on the list. And, making the President's Cup team was on the list."

Who can blame him? The President's Cup will be held at Muirfield in October. In his last two appearances at Muirfield -- the Course that Jack Built -- Kuchar is 27 shots under par. He shot 15-under 273 in finishing second here last year to Woods.

"This tournament is truly special to me," he said. "I remember in my early years as a newcomer on the PGA Tour, to get the invitation to the Memorial Tournament was so exciting, such a thrill, such an honor. To come here year after year and get to learn this place and get to become more familiar with it. To see the champions that have won here and now to put my name on the list of champions and put my name anywhere associated with Mr. Nicklaus is such a great honor."

That might seem a trip of a lifetime for Kuchar, who came out of Georgia Tech and finished in a tie for 21st in the 1998 Masters as an amateur with his father serving as his caddie. He joined the PGA Tour in 2001 but struggled and went down to what is now the Web.com Tour in 2006. He took it in stride.

"It was just part of the steps I took," he said of the demotion. "I don't see it as humbling. I didn't see it as an insult. I love the fact that the game of golf is strictly performance-based. I did not perform well enough to keep my status on the PGA Tour. I understood the situation. All I had to do was play better."

And, play better he has, especially at Muirfield on Sunday.  He hit 16 greens in regulation and 13 of 14 fairways. He began the day with a two-shot lead and took control of the tournament by making  14-foot putt for birdie on the 14th hole. It gave him a three-shot lead over his closest pursuer.

He finished with birdies on two of the final four holes and needed both to hold off a hard-charging Chappell, who birdied four of his last six holes to post his best finish of the season and equal the best finish of his PGA Tour career.

Chappell, who had missed seven of 14 cuts entering this week, threw a bit of a scare into Kuchar with a spectacular second shot that came to a stop 27 inches from the hole.

While he only needed to two-putt from 21 feet in order to win, Kuchar closed it out by making the putt.

"When I saw Kevin's shot I knew it was looking good and I was praying it wouldn't go in for a 2," said Kuchar, who now has five top-10 finishes at Muirfield and leads the PGA Tour with 35 top-10s since the start of the 2010 season.

Stanley, who started the final round in a tie for second with Chappell two shots in arrears of Kuchar, birdied four of the last five holes on the front nine and was within one shot of the lead with his birdie on the ninth when he knocked his second shot to within 3-feet, 10-inches of the hole and made the putt.

Scott Stallings also made an early run but drifted to a tie for fourth with second-round leader Bill Haas. Stallings, who has missed nine of 15 cuts this season, equalled his best finish of the season. At one stretch he birdied six of seven holes to zoom into contention after starting the day tied for 20th place at 1-under and post his best finish of the year. He began the week ranked 122d in the World Golf Rankings.

Stallings, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour, birdied holes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 to get to 7-under and was in the race until he bogeyed two of the final three holes. That  included taking a four on the par-3 16th hole, which ranked as the toughest on the course heading into Sunday's final round.

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Four birdies in his last six holes gave Chappell a chance at first victory

DUBLIN, Ohio -- Kevin Chappell went down fighting.

View full sizeKevin Chappell hits from the 10th fairway during the final round of the Memorial Tournament on Sunday in Dublin, Ohio. Darron Cummings, Associated Press 

The third year PGA Tour pro birdied four of the final six holes on Sunday but it wasn't enough to catch Matt Kuchar during the final round of the 38th annual Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club.

They say that par is a good score but that wasn't the case for Chappell, who posted his best finish of the season and his best finish since a tie for second in the 2011 Texas Valero Open.

Chappell's inability to beat par early in his round probably cost him and left him with a bitter-sweet feeling.

"There is nothing appropriate (to say)," he said. "It was whipped cream on dog-doo. I had a great week, but I came up short."

Chappell, who has missed seven of 15 cuts this season, opened his final round with 12 consecutive pars. He felt he had makeable birdie putts on at least four of those holes.

"I feel like I gave away a few shots there," he said. "I hit the ball well but I didn't have the feel with the putter like I did Saturday."

However, he stormed back after making a 20-foot birdie on the 453-yard 13th and followed with three more over the final four holes. He had an eagle putt of 21 feet on the 15th hole, then made a 19-footer on the 17th.

"I played the 15th hole great all week," he said. "I had no longer than 40 feet for eagle all week."

He made things interesting with a fantastic second shot on the closing hole. Trailing by two shots he hit his second from 156 yards to 27 inches, setting up another birdie and applying pressure on Kuchar.

"The last six holes were not an out-of-body experience by any means," he said. "Up until the birdie on 13 I wasn't even part of the discussion all day. I played a solid back nine to get close. When Matt got his ball on the green I figured it was over with. He hasn't 3-putted in about a year. He's world class with that putter."

Said Kuchar, "I was hoping his ball wouldn't go in for as two on the 18th."

After missing seven of 14 cuts entering the week, his runnerup finish was worth $562,189, almost as much as he made all of last year.

Third time is almost charm: Kyle Stanley's third-place finish was his best showing in three Memorial starts. He finished in a tie for 37th in 2011 and missed the cut last year.

"I like where my game is," he said. "It just tells me that I'm doing the right things, working on the right things."

It grows on you: Unlike most of his peers on the PGA Tour, Memorial champion Matt Kuchar is sporting a beard, or what appears to be a beard. He did not give a reason why he began growing it and said it is not popular with most people in his life, other than his wife, Sybi.

"My mother and grandmother dislike it, but my wife likes it," he said "It's itchy and scratchy and doesn't feel good. I promise you I'm going to shave as soon as I get home."

Something to sneeze at: Ohio's allergy season could be too much for Bubba Watson. The former Masters champion said he is thinking of skipping future Memorials because of it.

"I don't play Tampa anymore because of allergies," he said. "This (the Memorial) is another one I'm close to not playing because of the allergies, with all the wind and the stuff flying through the air."

 Nice connection: Michael Kim (California), Alex Carpenter (Abilene Christian), Brad Shigezawa (Claremont-Mudd Scripps) Sondre Ronold (Oklahoma City), Jake Argento (South Mountain Community College) were named as the 2013 Jack Nicklaus Award winners as collegiate players of the year in Division I, II, III, NAIA and NJCAA, respectively. All four attended the Memorial tournament on Sunday. Nicklaus, a former Big Ten and NCAA champion at Ohio State, spent about an hour talking with the four winners. His first piece of advice was for them to complete their education.

Honoring Annika: World Golf Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam, the only female to earn more than $20 million, will be the 2014 Memorial honoree. Sorenstam, who won 89 times worldwide and 72 LPGA tournaments and 10 majors, becomes the 11th female to be honored by the Captains Club. She still holds the record for the lowest scoring average in a season (68.6969). She retired in 2008 at the age of 37. Today, she lives in Orlando, Fla., with her husband, Mike McGee, and children Ava and William.

Not much room: Ben Curtis, Kyle Stanley, Davis Love III, Camilo Villegas, Vijay Singh, Aaron Baddeley, Robert Allenby and Stuart Appleby are among the 120 players entered in Monday's 36-hole U.S. Open sectional qualifer at nearby Brookside Golf and Country Club and Lakes Golf and Country Club. There are 15 spots available.

So-so: A final round 75 left Ben Curtis at 3-over 291 for the tournament. Curtis had a tough back nine, making three bogeys.

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