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Indians rout Tigers to cut magic number to 9
- Updated: September 17, 2016
CLEVELAND — The back-and-forth battle between the Indians and Tigers on Friday night played out like this summer’s American League Central race. Cleveland jumped to an early lead, Detroit pushed back and the Tribe kept pulling away.
In the end, the Indians secured an 11-4 victory at Progressive Field, where Mike Napoli put on a show, ace Corey Kluber held Detroit back and Cleveland improved to 12-1 on the year against the Tigers. The Tribe’s magic number is now down to nine, as the club holds a seven-game lead on Detroit with 15 games left on the regular-season schedule.
Justin Upton launched a pair of home runs for the Tigers — marking his 13th career multi-homer game, and third of the season — to account for all four runs scored off Kluber. The Indians righty was otherwise effective over his seven innings, striking out seven and collecting his 17th win of the season in the process.
Napoli belted a home run, came through with an …
