Surging Indians face potent Red Sox on MLB.TV

Friday night’s game at Fenway Park showcased a former Cy Young Award winner in the Indians’ Corey Kluber matching up with the Red Sox and their intimidating lineup.

Kluber didn’t blink, allowing just two runs on five hits over seven strong innings to pick up the win. The surging Tribe has now claimed five straight victories to put the rest of the American League on notice. Boston, meanwhile, hopes its league-pacing offense can get back on track in Game 2.

That duel is just one of many storylines worth keeping an eye on as part of a full plate of 15 games across the Majors on Saturday. Elsewhere, two of the National League’s best young arms lock horns in Miami for the second time in a week. The NL’s best hitting lineups will duel in Pittsburgh. And in the Windy City, the defending champs try to make up ground on the AL Central leader.

On a busy Saturday in the Majors, the best place to catch all the action is on MLB.TV.

MLB.TV Premium returns with the same features as last year, but at $109.99, it is a full 20 bucks cheaper than the 2015 cost. This package has the best value and provides access to more than 400 devices and a free subscription to the MLB.com At Bat Premium app (a $19.99 value). It offers the best picture quality ever — a new 60 frames per second — for supported devices. Monthly signups for MLB.TV Premium are now underway as well for $24.99.

The new MLB.TV Single Team package is also now available as an $84.99 yearly subscription. You can watch a single team’s live out-of-market games in full HD.

Here is a look at what to watch for today in the Majors (all times ET):

Shortstops square off: CLE@BOS, 4:05 p.m.

They may be two of the youngest everyday position players in baseball, but Boston’s Xander Bogaerts (age 23) and Cleveland’s Francisco Lindor (22) are proving the future is now when it comes to the shortstop position. Bogaerts is tied with Houston’s Jose Altuve for the American League lead with 58 hits, and he carries a 14-game hitting streak into Saturday. Lindor is just as hot for Cleveland, batting .486 (17-for-35) with eight runs scored in his past eight games. Entering Friday, each of them ranked within the AL’s top 25 players in weighted runs created plus, a stat that measures how a player’s production compares with the league average after controlling for park effects, according to Fangraphs.

Saturday’s contest marks the second of a six-game homestand for the Red Sox. Boston’s bats have certainly enjoyed the home cooking of late, hitting .346 with 95 runs scored in their past 11 games (8.6 runs per game) at Fenway Park.

Stat that matters: Right-hander Trevor Bauer, Cleveland’s starter for Saturday’s game, has allowed just a .156 BABIP to right-handed batters this season — …

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