Tribe takes 2 of 3 from visiting A's

Game 1:

Mike Heath, Mitchell Page and Rickey Henderson homered off an ineffective Bert Blyleven, L ( 2 - 3) to lead the A's to an easy 12 - 3 win.  Blyleven's ERA soared to 5.09 and the Indian staff saw their ERA sky rocket to 5.64.  Keough got the win with a complete game 7-hitter to record his third victory against no defeats.
 
The A's put the game away in the third with 5 runs to lead 9 - 0 as Blyleven lasted only 3 2/3 innings in yielding 9 runs, 8 of which were earned and surrendered 8 hits and 4 walks.
 
Game 2:

The tribe evened the series with a 4 - 2 win the second game as John Denny W, (2 -3) went the distance yielding 7 hits.  His fine performance lowered his ERA to a mere 7.49.  Wayne Gross hit his third homer of the year with a runner on to account for the two Oakland runs.  Andre Thornton and Rick Manning each drove in two runs for the Tribe.
 
Game 3:

Cleveland took the rubber game of the series 3 - 2 behind a fine performance by Rick Waits W, (2 - 3) who scattered 10 hits over  8 innings to get the win and lower his ERA to 8.04.  Dan Spillner set down the A's in order in the ninth to pick up his second save of the season.  Cleveland who managed only six hits off Steve McCatty, L (2 - 3) scored all three runs in the third as Thornton walked to lead off the inning followed by singles by Rick Manning and Tom Veryzer which drove in the first run.  Miguel Dilone grounded out to drive in the second run and with two out Mike Hargrove singled to drive in what proved to be the winning run.
 
A single by Mike Heath and a double by Tony Armas accounted for two Oakland tallies in the fourth but that was the end of the scoring.  --Jim Clouser--