CLEVELAND — Colby Lewis allowed two hits over six shutout innings, leading the Texas Rangers over the Cleveland Indians 7-3 on Tuesday night and improving to 5-0 for the first time in his major league career.
Bryan Holaday and Jurickson Profar homered off Corey Kluber (4-6), and the AL West-leading Rangers won for the ninth time in their last 11 games.
Lewis has won his last three starts and has pitched at least six innings in 10 of 11 outings this season. The 36-year-old right-hander gave up singles to Lonnie Chisenhall and Rajai Davis in the third. He is 3-0 and has allowed five earned runs over 26 innings in five road starts.
Sam Dyson got two outs for his sixth save in seven chances.
Holaday’s two-run homer put Texas ahead in the third, and Profar hit a solo homer in the fifth.
Kluber was removed after the first three hitters in the eighth reached base. He allowed six runs and eight hits in seven innings.
Cleveland has lost three straight after briefly moving into the AL Central lead on Saturday. Chisenhall had three RBIs, including a two-run homer in the seventh.
Ian Desmond’s two-run double in the eighth extended his hitting streak to nine games. Elvis Andrus was 1 for 4 and has hit safely in 29 of 30 career games at Progressive Field.
Jared Hoying, a native of northwest Ohio, got his major league RBI with a ninth-inning single and had two hits.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rangers: RHP Shawn Tolleson (family medical emergency list) is to throw a bullpen session Wednesday.
Indians: RHP Joba Chamberlain (left intercostal strain) will throw a simulated game Saturday. He’s been on the 15-day disabled list since May 23.
UP NEXT
LHP Cole Hamels, scheduled to start for Texas on Wednesday, had won a career-best 12 consecutive decsions before losing 9-1 to Pittsburgh last Friday. Cleveland is to start RHP Trevor Bauer, 2-2 with a 4.19 ERA in six starts after opening the season with six bullpen appearances.
