NEW YORK (AP) — Corey Kluber kept Cleveland’s bats as hushed as he usually is.
Pitching against the team that helped him blossom into a star, Kluber allowed four singles over six innings to win for the first time in nearly four months, and the New York Yankees climbed back into a playoff position with an 8-0 rout of the Indians on Friday night.
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Typical for the reserved Klubot, he felt nothing special about facing the Indians.
“That would have been a selfish kind of approach to it, especially the position we’re in,” he said.