Cleveland — This one isn’t going to the Smithsonian.
Both teams slopped it up pretty good Sunday in the rubber match of the final trip into Cleveland, but the Tigers’ misplays and misfires proved fatal.
Right fielder Bradley Zimmer blasted a 413-foot home run into the seats in right field off reliever Erasmo Ramirez, breaking a 5-5 in the seventh inning and sending the Indians to a 7-5 win over the Tigers at Progressive Field.
Three of the Indians’ seven runs were unearned. Shortstop Zack Short made a pair of errors. Jose Ramirez was credited with a single on a ground ball that second baseman Willi Castro fielded in shallow right field and then slipped and fell as he was trying to make the throw.