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CLEVELAND -- Sonny Gray entered his start against Cleveland with a 2-0 record and a 0.64 ERA against the Indians.He allowed seven runs and eight hits in 3 1/3 innings as the Indians beat the Oakland Athletics 8-0 to complete a three-game sweep.When he started this game today, I thought he had the same stuff to when he pitched a shutout here last time, Oakland manager Bob Melvin said.Corey Kluber limited Oakland to five hits in seven innings, and Mike Napoli hit a two-run homer.Gray (5-10) dropped to 2-9 in his last 16 starts and has a 5.84 ERA this season.When you watch him, it just doesnt look like the ERA adds up to what hes pitching, Cleveland manager Terry Francona said.Gray had started the season 3-1.Its very frustrating, he said. I compare this year to previous years and stuff-wise everything is very similar. Its just this years not going in the right direction.Kluber (10-8) struck out seven and walked two, retiring Max Muncy and Ryon Healy to strand runners on second and third in the seventh. He is 4-1 in his last seven starts.You try to put up as many zeroes as you can and the offense put up eight runs, so its a good day, Kluber said.Three relievers completed the six-hitter.Following a 36-minute rain delay at the start, Cleveland went ahead in a five-run third that included Napolis homer, Kipnis two-run single and Francisco Lindors sacrifice fly.Napolis team-leading 24th home run this season was his 1,000th career hit. Lonnie Chisenhall, Tyler Naquin and Abraham Almonte each had two hits.Cleveland maintained a 4 1/2 game lead over Detroit in the AL Central and Francona knows the Indians need production throughout lineup to stay on top.We need to be that kind of team where were getting contributions and not giving pitchers innings off, he said.Roberto Perez was 1 for 23 this season when Gray walked him in the third, loading the bases. Perez singled in a run in the fourth.TRAINERS ROOMAthletics: LHP Rich Hill (middle finger blister) could start Friday against the Chicago Cubs. He was placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday, retroactive to July 20.Indians: 1B Carlos Santana left the game in the ninth with cramping in his right hamstring, but Francona said hell be OK.UP NEXTAthletics: LHP Sean Manaea faces the Angels for the first time in his career Monday in the opener of a three-game series. He hasnt walked a batter in 26 2/3 innings over his last four appearances.Indians: RHP Danny Salazar has a 2.97 ERA, the fourth lowest in the AL going into Mondays start against Minnesota. Hes 6-0 with a 2.68 ERA in eight starts this season against AL Central teams. Nmds Norge . Both players have lower body injuries that will keep them out of the lineup until at least January 31, which is the first game they can be activated from IR. Billig Nmd Sko . The 19-year-old Olsen played 34 games with the Kelowna Rockets of the WHL this season. In that time, hes recorded 17 goals and 17 assists with 36 penalty minutes. http://www.nmdnorgesalg.com/nmd-xr4-sko-norge.html .S. -- Nikolaj Ehlers registered a hat trick for the third straight game and Jonathan Drouin had a goal and five assists as the Halifax Mooseheads hammered the host Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 10-1 on Tuesday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. Nmd_r1 Sko Hvit . "No difference at all," chirped U.S. roommate and linemate James van Riemsdyk. "Its still the same cranky Phil. Adidas Tubular Shadow Norge . Lack made 20 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Canucks blanked the St. Louis Blues 1-0 in the first post-Olympic game for both teams night. ROSMALEN, Netherlands -- Simona Halep reached her second final in a week by beating third-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro 6-3, 6-2 at the Topshelf Open on Friday to set up a title match against Kirsten Flipkens. The 10th-ranked Stanislas Wawrinka advanced to the mens final by beating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-1, 6-4. The Swiss will play his first career final on grass against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut. Wawrinka breezed through in the opening set but the Spaniard put up more resistance in the second, forcing 10 break points but not managing to convert any of them as the Swiss player repeatedly hheld his nerve in two lengthy service games.dddddddddddd For in-form Romanian Halep, it was the second easy win against a top player on Rosmalens grass courts, after she outclassed top-seeded Roberta Vinci 6-0, 6-1 on Wednesday. Last Saturday, Halep won her first WTA title by beating Andrea Petkovic of Germany on clay in the final of the inaugural Nurnberger Versicherungscup. Fourth-seeded Flipkens of Belgium beat Garbine Muguruza of Spain 6-3, 6-1 in the other semifinal. Xavier Malisse could not make it two Belgian finalists, losing to Mahut in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. ' ' '