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Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona explains pitching strategy for Minnesota series

MINNEAPOLIS -- Manager Terry Francona called the Indians’ four-game series against the first place Twins “huge’ on Friday afternoon. But there’s always a catch with Francona, who never strays far from his belief that the most important game a team plays is the game they’re playing tonight.

“I've never felt like downplaying a series,” said Francona, whose Indians trail the Twins by two games in the AL Central. “This is a huge series. Now, when we leave here, the Orioles series is a huge series. We just played the Dodgers. That was a huge series.

“That's how we look at it.