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Lee's gem gives Indians DH sweep in KC

Fri 25th, April 2008

Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - Cliff Lee tossed his first career major league shutout as Cleveland edged Kansas City, 2-0, sweeping a doubleheader at Kauffman Stadium.

Lee (4-0) was tremendous in the start, scattering just three hits, fanning nine batters and walking none to lower his earned run average to a miniscule 0.28 on the season. The 29-year-old lefty is off to the best start of his major league career and has given up just 10 hits and one earned run in 31 2/3 innings of work overall.

"Things have been going good," said Lee. "I know that I worked in the off- season and had a full spring to prepare for the season. I don't think I expected it to go this well, but I knew that if I got off to a healthy start I'd be successful."

David Dellucci's solo homer broke a scoreless contest, Travis Hafner had two hits and scored a run, and Asdrubal Cabrera chipped in with an RBI for Cleveland, which swept the three-game series and has won five of its last seven games.

The loss went to Brian Bannister (3-2), who was charged with two runs and four hits over 6 2/3 innings. He fanned four and didn't walk a batter, but his solid outing failed to halt what is now a seven-game skid for Kansas City.

"I was pitching so well and I know my pitch count wasn't high," said Bannister. "I had the same intention of doing what he (Cliff Lee) did tonight. I wanted to be the last guy standing. I went out there and tried to throw. It was just frustrating."

In the opener, Grady Sizemore had four hits, including a solo homer, and also drove in two runs as the Indians held off the Royals, 9-6.

Lee and Bannister dueled for six innings, but it was Cleveland that broke through in the seventh. Dellucci mashed a first-pitch fastball over the wall in right to lead off, and Hafner followed with a double. Ryan Garko's groundout then moved him to third, and after Jhonny Peralta was also retired, Cabrera's double upped the lead to 2-0.

The Royals managed just one hit the rest of the way, as David DeJesus singled with two outs in the ninth. Esteban Germany grounded out to end the game.

Game Notes

The Indians outscored the Royals 26-7 in the three-game series...Cleveland has won 13 of its last 20 matchups with the Royals, including seven of the 10 meetings in Kansas City...Lee's nine strikeouts tied a career high...Attendance was just 11,637.

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