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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Eddie Taubensee thought back to Game 7 the 1985 World Series, when Darryl Motley pulled a ball foul to left, just missing a home run, then connected on the next pitch for a three-run homer to right that was barely fair.
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Taubensee did the same thing Tuesday night, hitting a three-run homer in the Cleveland Indians' 13-2 rout of the Kansas City Royals.
"That came into my mind. And on the next pitch .... I can't say I knew it was going to happen. But that's what I thought about," Taubensee said.
Marty Cordova, Juan Gonzalez, Ellis Burks and Russell Branyan
also homered for the Indians.
Gonzalez, who hit a two-run drive off Blake Stein in a six-run seventh, has 29 RBI in 24 games.
Chuck Finley (2-2) won for the first time in five starts, improving to 16-11 against Kansas City. He allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings.
Cleveland, which set a season high for runs, hit all its homers with two outs.
"I've had that happen to me a couple of times this year, so I know exactly how bad it feels if you're the pitcher," Finley said.
"You've just got to keep pitching, keep trying to make pitches. It's good to see us do it because we struggled the first part of the year with two outs. Our offense has really come together the last week-and-a-half."
Chad Durbin (0-1), called up a day earlier from Triple-A Omaha, gave up a two-run homer to Burks in a four-run first and a three-run drive to Taubensee in the fourth that made it 7-0.
Durbin allowed seven runs and five hits in four innings.
"I couldn't have been more prepared mentally or physically," said Durbin.
"I feel like my stuff was good enough to get people out on an
every five-day basis. No confidence was lost because when I made my
pitches they didn't hit them. When I made mistakes, Double-A or
Single-A guys are going to hit that stuff."
Doug Henry gave up the 455-foot drive to Cordova. Three pitchers later, he allowed 435-foot homer to Branyan.
Durbin, who split time last year between Triple-A Omaha and Kansas City, walked Kenny Lofton leading off the first, then allowed an RBI double to Omar Vizquel. After a walk and a sacrifice, Gonzalez hit a sacrifice fly.
Durbin then retired his next nine batters before Cordova and Branyan singled ahead of Taubensee's homer.
Mike Sweeney's sacrifice fly drove in a run for Kansas City in
the fourth after second baseman Roberto Alomar's first error since
last Sept. 27. Rey Sanchez had an RBI single in the fifth.
Game notes
For the first time this year, the Royals started a game
without Carlos Beltran in center field. He was scratched just
before game time with flu-like symptoms. ... Cleveland's previous
high this year was 11 runs against Detroit. ... The game was
delayed about 10 minutes starting the top of the ninth after a
spectator fell out of the right-field bleachers onto the field. The
man appeared to be unhurt.
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