Michael Brantley News

Memorial Day is no time to be looking at the baseball standings, at least not to White Sox manager Robin Ventura.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: On a warm, windy day, Sox hitters use the long ball en route to a blowout victory.

A robbed homer, three explosive half innings and some solid swing-and-a-miss inducing pitching.

Jeanmar Gomez was shaky all evening, and finally the White Sox broke the game open as he tired.

The Cleveland Indians are one of the surprise teams in the early going of the 2012 season.

A 2-1 loss on Thursday completed a three-game sweep of the irritated Tigers by the Cleveland Indians - with two Tigers getting ejected along the way for a dispute at first base.

Before the game, if someone had told you that Ubaldo Jimenez would hold the Tigers to three runs in six innings .

Right-hander Josh Johnson gave up one run in seven innings as the Marlins defeated the Indians, 5-3, Sunday afternoon in front of 23,668 paid at Progressive Field.

Grady Sizemore probably will be ready to make his 2012 debut in about three weeks, and the Indians will have another set of decisions confronting them.

Alex Liddi got his first career start in left field for the Mariners on Thursday and handled all of his fielding chances without incident.

The Indians welcome the Marlins for the start of Interleague Play on Friday in the middle of a nine-game homestand, and the Tribe is on a roll.

A fantasy outfield of Jacoby Ellsbury, Mike Morse and Jayson Werth loses a little bit of its luster when the trio combines for 74 missed games in the season's first month and a half.

Derek Lowe tossed a shutout, scattering six hits while walking four, to lead the Indians to a 5-0 win over the Twins in the finale of a short two-game series at Target Field.

The past repeated itself Monday evening at Target Field when manager Manny Acta elected to use right fielder Shin-Soo Choo in the leadoff spot to face Carl Pavano and the Twins.

Cleveland Indians' Michael Brantley is unable to get his glove on a two-run double by Boston Red Sox's Daniel Nava in the seventh inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, in Boston on Sunday, May 13, 2012.

Mark Shapiro is one of the most polarizing GM's in professional sports. 'Shap' took over as Cleveland's GM following the departure of John Hart, a man many identify as synonymous with the winning Tribe baseball of the 1990s.

Dustin Pedroia extended his hitting streak to 12 games with three hits and three RBIs and righthander Clay Buchholz delivered his best performance of the season as Boston snapped a six-game slide at home.

The Indians changed their "sox" and went to Fenway Park on Thursday night to grab an 8-3 win over Boston behind four hits from Michael Brantley to improve their Major League best road record to 10-3. Brantley, who drove in two runs, had two doubles and two singles, knocked Boston starter John Beckett from the game with his 2-run double to cap a ... (more)

Cleveland Indians' Jack Hannahan, right, celebrates his two-run home run that drove in Michael Brantley as Boston Red Sox catcher Kelly Shoppach, rear, watches in the second inning of a baseball game in Boston, Thursday, May 10, 2012.

Cleveland Indians' Josh Tomlin pitches to the Chicago White Sox in the first inning of the second game of a baseball doubleheader Monday, May 7, 2012, in Cleveland.