Zach McAllister

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cleveland Indians - INSIDE PITCH For the Indians' starting rotation to be contender quality this year they knew they were going to have to get contributions from a pitcher or two who has a breakout season. At this...

CLEVELAND The Cleveland Indians are not a cleanup-hitter type of team. Of course they have one actually they've used five players in the No. 4 spot but the Tribe offense is not dependent on the cleanup batter putting up huge numbers. For the season,...

Questions to consider: The fans gave the Dolans at least a small vote of confidence when the Indians' owners spent to acquire Michael Bourn, Mark Reynolds, Brett Myers, Drew Stubbs and Nick Swisher. The boost in payroll hasn't translated into bigger...

MLB Team Report - Cleveland Indians - INSIDE PITCH The Indians concluded a disappointing road trip Wednesday that bordered on disastrous. It's not often that a team wins the last two games of a road trip and still looks at it as disappointing, but that'...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cleveland Indians - INSIDE PITCH The Indians recently acquired utility infielder John McDonald from Pittsburgh in a trade for a player to be named later. McDonald, 38, was originally drafted and developed by the...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cleveland Indians - INSIDE PITCH The Indians have had a strange season when it comes to saves. They have just nine saves -- easily the fewest of any team in the American League. Closer Chris Perez has only six...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cleveland Indians - INSIDE PITCH The Indians, who had gone over a week since their last win, snapped their eight-game losing streak with a 5-2 win over Texas on Tuesday. Indians' starter Corey Kluber gave the team...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cleveland Indians - INSIDE PITCH For much of the first two months of the season the Indians' starting rotation was surprisingly good. Recently, however, the starting rotation has gone into a collective slump and, not...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cleveland Indians - INSIDE PITCH The Indians are in a free fall. Their latest loss was 4-1 in Detroit on Sunday, the Indians' seventh loss in a row. That's part of a bigger slide that has also seen them lose 11 in...

DETROIT Jim Leyland wanted six innings out of Jose Alvarez. And did the rookie ever give him six. In his major league debut Sunday at Comerica Park, the 24-year-old lefty stymied the Cleveland Indians offense over six innings and earned the win as the...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Tennis--French Open, men’s championship match, 8 a.m. (NBC) Auto Racing--NASCAR Sprint Cup, Party in the Poconos 400, Noon (TNT); Formula One, Canadian Grand Prix, 1 p.m. (NBC) College Baseball--NCAA Division I Playoffs,...

The Sports Xchange By Dana Gauruder, The Sports Xchange Tigers saddle Indians with sixth straight loss DETROIT -- The quality starts continue to pile up for the Detroit Tigers, and the frustration keeps mounting for their closest competitors in the...