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TORONTO (AP) — Francisco Lindor is giving the Indians record-breaking power out of the leadoff spot.Lindor had two solo homers and four RBIs Brian Goodwin Jersey , rookie Shane Bieber pitched into the seventh inning to remain unbeaten in nine road starts and Cleveland beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-4 on Thursday night for its third straight win.Cleveland trimmed its magic number to seven for clinching a third consecutive AL Central championship.Lindor has six multihomer games from the leadoff spot this season, a major league record. The three-time All-Star said he likes getting the chance to set the tone.“Whatever happens, if I do something to help the team in the first inning, teams know, ‘Here are the Indians and they’re here to compete pitch after pitch,'” Lindor said.Lindor connected on right-hander Sam Gaviglio’s third pitch of the game for his 10th career leadoff homer and seventh this season. He went deep to right off Gaviglio again in the third for his eighth career multihomer game. Lindor has 33 home runs, matching his total from last year. He added a two-run single in the fifth and singled again in the ninth.“Wow,” manager Terry Francona said. “He was the majority of our offense for a while there.”Bieber said Lindor’s energy and output are “contagious.”“It’s huge for us when he’s going well,” Bieber said. “It kind of sparks everybody else.”Lindor approached Francona at the start of spring training and asked to hit leadoff.“The minute he said that, I was thrilled,” Francona said.Lindor’s first blast broke a tie with Houston’s George Springer for leadoff home runs this season, and matched Grady Sizemore’s 2008 Indians record.Toronto’s Rowdy Tellez doubled in the second and fourth innings after getting a pinch-hit double in his debut Wednesday, making him the first player in major league history with extra-base hits in each of his first three plate appearances.“He’s the new cult hero in town,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.Tellez doubled again in the seventh http://www.nationalsfanproshop.com/authentic-matt-adams-jersey , joining Oakland’s Ben Grieve as the only players since 1920 to record four doubles in their first two games.Jason Kipnis hit a three-run shot off Blue Jays reliever Mark Leiter Jr. in the ninth, his 15th.Bieber (9-3) allowed four runs, three earned, and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings, improving to 5-0 away from home.Gaviglio (3-8) allowed five runs and six hits in 4 1/3 innings to lose for the fourth time in five starts.Trailing 2-0 on Lindor’s two homers, the Blue Jays rallied with four in the fourth. Tellez doubled home a run, Teoscar Hernandez hit a two-run double and scored on a fielding error by first baseman Yonder Alonso.The Indians answered with three in the fifth. Brandon Guyer chased Gaviglio with an RBI double, and Lindor greeted reliever Jose Fernandez with a two-run single.Indians outfielder Greg Allen gave his team a two-run cushion with an RBI double off right-hander Justin Shafer in the seventh.Cleveland’s Tyler Olson pitched to one batter in the seventh. Adam Cimber got two outs, Cody Allen worked the eighth and Dan Otero finished.SORRY CHIEFCleveland removed the Chief Wahoo logo from the sleeve of its uniforms for the series, a move that is set to become permanent next season. The decision to nix the logo this series was partially driven by a failed legal challenge against the team when it played in Toronto during the 2016 AL Championship Series. While Cleveland played the Blue Jays, a lawsuit was filed to have the logo and team name banned from Canadian TV. A judge dismissed the case.The Indians will return to their regular uniforms when they play at Tampa Bay next week.FOUR AND MORELindor has four four-hit games and four four-RBI games this season. He leads the majors with 117 runs scored.TRAINER’S ROOMIndians: LHP Andrew Miller (left shoulder) felt good after a 20-pitch bullpen session Thursday. Miller’s next step is not known. … OF Michael Brantley was held out of the starting lineup after fouling a pitch off his left foot Wednesday. … 3B Josh Donaldson (left calf) had the day off Thursday. Donaldson will play for Double-A Akron in a playoff game Friday.Blue Jays: Toronto recalled C Reese McGuire and Shafer from Triple-A. McGuire started behind the plate, becoming the 61st player used by the Blue Jays this season, a club record.UP NEXTIndians RHP Carlos Carrasco (16-8, 3.52) faces Blue Jays RHP Marco Estrada (7-11 Brandon Kintzler Jersey , 5.43) on Friday. Carrasco had a 1.85 ERA in six August starts but allowed five runs in a loss to Tampa Bay last week. Estrada has allowed 11 earned runs over his past two outings, losing both. Will his bat continue to progress?"Greg Allen is one of thirty-seven ten outfielders to appear in at least ten games for the Cleveland Indians this season.We can start by saying the 25-year-old is a talented defender with elite speed who requires development at the plate in order to stick long-term. I think if we start to peel back the layers a little bit, there are reasons why his 2018 should give us hope that he will continue to develop into a solid everyday player.I think it is important to take a look at Allen’s full resume before we begin. In 2017, the Indians recalled Allen from Double-A toward the end of the season. He did not have any at-bats in Triple-A until this year, and even then he only logged 205 total plate appearances in Columbus. It is a tall order to ask any player but the monumentally gifted to essentially skip their last developmental step before the majors.Allen spent so little time in Columbus in part due to his .298/.395/.409 slash line. He did this with some assistance from a BABIP of .389, but the patience at the plate stands out as the most beneficial thing to me. Allen will be most valuable as a player that consistently reaches base. He does not need to hit for much power or average if he’s among the team leaders in on-base percentage.Part of the reason for this is that pretty much any single or walk by Allen immediately threatens to become a double. In 496 plate appearances between the minors and majors this season he stole 33 bases against 10 caught-stealing. The ratio at the major league level was much better: 21 to 4. With that speed, any extra base hit is a run scored regardless of where he is on the diamond, and any single is a run scored if he’s beyond first base. The numbers bear this out, as well. If we extrapolate Allen’s value on the basepath using Fangraphs’ BSR to an entire season’s worth of plate appearances, he would be one of the ten best players in baseball by that metric, joining the likes of Mookie Betts, Whit Merrifield, and Billy Hamilton. Extrapolating is dangerous and not a guarantee of future performance (thanks, Dr. Brenneman — I learned something in statistics after all) Tanner Roark Jersey , but his speed and instincts on the basepath suggest that he’ll continue to wreak havoc.What that left us in 2018 is a speedy, slick fielder whose contributions balance out to roughly replacement level according to Fangraphs and Baseball Reference. So, why do I think he has a chance to become an everyday player?First, as I already mentioned — he pretty much skipped Triple-A, and he showed competency there when he briefly visited. We all know that the adjustment to the majors is the biggest one, however, and we have the label “AAAA player” for good reason. Will he be able to make those adjustments and contribute at the plate?He was a completely different player in the second half of the season, driven mostly by his patience at the plate beginning to shine through. In the first half, Allen walked only 4% of the time, and struck out 24% of the time. In the second half, he bumped the walk rate up to 5.7% and nudged the strikeout rate down to 15.6%. The walk rate still isn’t phenomenal, but in September and October he managed a 10.7 walk rate. That all added up to a wRC+ of 114 in the second half. This is quite a bit better than his 39 in the first half.I present these second half numbers with the standard “small sample size” warning, but these feel more indicative of what his true talent might be when you consider it alongside the larger sampling of minor league at-bats that we have to review.And remember, Allen is an excellent defender at a premium position. The best center fielders in baseball can all mash Khris Davis Jersey , but there are plenty of good players — Kevin Pillar, Jackie Bradley Jr, and Ender Enciarte to name a couple — who offer plenty of value in the middle of the outfield while being below league average at the plate. The offensive requirements for a center fielder are frankly lower, and Allen’s future role on the Indians needs to be considered with that in mind. It is possible that Allen’s on-base skills won’t permanently translate to the major league level. I’m looking forward to seeing how he plays in the spring. I don’t think we should all bank on it, but he, Leonys Martin, and Oscar Mercado are all players we should keep an eye on as the 2019 season is getting ready to begin. The years of a mostly-barren outfield in Cleveland may be coming to an end.You may now use the comments to discuss what the Indians could get for Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco, and Francisco Lindor on the trade market if you really want.