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KANSAS CITY http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authen...martinez-jersey , Mo. (AP) — After losing an inconsequential game to the Kansas City Royals, the Cleveland Indians were relieved catcher Yan Gomes‘ injury was not as serious as first feared.Adalberto Mondesi hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer to lift the Kansas City Royals to a 9-4 win over the Indians on Saturday night.Gomes left the game in the bottom of the third with an injured right hand after he was hit by Alex Gordon’s bat on a backswing as he attempted to throw out would-be base-stealer Mondesi. The Indians’ training staff led Gomes off the field as Gordon was called out for interference and Mondesi sent back to first. Gomes was replaced by Roberto Perez.Gomes received two stitches on his hand near his thumb.“I think we kind of dodged a bullet right there,” Manager Terry Francona said. “When it first happened it was bleeding like crazy. He got a couple of stitches, but it’s just a contusion. The doctors feel like in a couple of days, he gets the swelling out of there. He could play with the stitches but they feel like they can have them out of there by Tuesday or Wednesday. I’m sure he’s going to be sore for a few days, but it looks like he’s going to be OK.”Corey Kluber gave up three runs and seven hits in five innings in his final regular season start for Cleveland. Working with a short pitch count in his tune-up for American League Division Series against Houston, Kluber struck out six while throwing 80 pitches.“I think there’s a couple of times I made mistakes, but that happens every game,” Kluber said. “For the most part I executed pitches the way I wanted to. It may not have always gone the way I wanted it to, but that’s part of the game.”Kluber finished the year fifth in the AL with a 2.89 ERA. He walked 34 batters in 33 starts for a league-leading walk rate of 1.42 per nine innings.“I thought he was actually pretty good,” Francona said. “His line’s not going to look as good. We didn’t finish some plays. Melky (Cabrera) kind of came in and then didn’t make the play and that ended up being three. After that the game got ugly.”After reliever Andrew Miller (2-4) gave up a single to Alcides Escobar in the sixth and a two-out walk to Whit Merrifield, Mondesi hit the next pitch into the left-center stands to break a 3-3 tie.“Just stay short to the ball,” Mondesi said. “I know if I go with that plan, you got time to recognize the pitch. Stay short and put a good swing on a pitch.”The Royals added another run with consecutive hits by Gordon, Hunter Dozier and Ryan O’Hearn.Merrifield led off the bottom of the first with a sharp single to center, then stole second and third. He leads the American League with 191 hits and 44 steals. Merrifield, who also had a two-run double in the fourth, has a 19-game hitting streak, tying for the longest in the majors this year and matching his career best set last year.Jakob Junis (9-12) went six innings Felix Hernandez Jersey , allowing three runs and eight hits with one walk and six strikeouts. Junis has walked just three in his last seven starts, over 56 innings, the best walk rate among American League starters over that span. Junis is 4-1 in 11 starts since Aug. 1, with a 3.38 ERA.“I got off to a slow start,” Junis said. “I was making decent pitches, they were just finding holes. Thankfully, they were just singles and I was able to limit the damage to just a couple runs and no extra base hits or home runs.”Mondesi has hit seven of his 14 homers in the last 15 games. Since August 25, he is hitting .322 (39 for 122) with 10 homers and 19 RBIs over 29 games.Rookie Meibrys Viloria had three hits and drove in the Royals’ first run with a two-out, second-inning single.Yonder Alonso and Cabrera gave the Indians a 3-1 lead in the third with consecutive two-out, run-scoring singles.Jose Ramirez, who had three hits, capped the scoring with a solo homer, his 39th, to lead off the eighth. Ramirez is hitting .177 (25 for 141) over his last 39 games.TRAINER’S ROOMIndians: INF Erik Gonzalez is under concussion protocol after getting beaned Wednesday. “He’s doing better today,” Francona said. “He’s actually going to go do some stuff in the weight room, get the blood flowing.”Royals: C Salvador Perez was held out of Saturday’s lineup due to nagging left thumb pain. “It’s been sore all month,” manager Ned Yost said. “It’s one of those things that he deals with and he’s still been very productive.” Perez is expected to be ready for Sunday’s season finale.UP NEXTRHP Carlos Carrasco (16-10, 3.42 ERA) closes out the regular season against LHP Eric Skoglund (1-5, 5.40). Francona expects Carrasco to throw about 80 pitches before giving way to RHP Trevor Bauer, who the Indians hope will finish from there. Attend the tale of Mitchell Garv Hisashi Iwakuma Jersey , whose mitt is strong but his numbers odd..."editor’s note: Please welcome one of our long-time community members, TeamCrazyMatt, to the front page!In 2017, a promising young catcher named Mitch Garver was called up to the Minnesota Twins. Playing in only 23 games over the course of the season, Garver batted just .196 with a .288 OBP, but somehow managed to turn three of his nine hits into triples.Come 2018, Garver opened in camp with the Twins as the backup catcher, but was elevated to a starting role after Jason Castro was lost to injury for the season. In 102 games he showed marked improvement, particularly on offense, batting .268 (.335 OBP) with seven home runs, and has positioned himself as a candidate, if not the favorite, for the starting job in 2019 despite Castro’s return.While this is an impressive story on its own merits for a former ninth-round draft pick, Garver’s tenure with the Twins will offer a strange curiosity at the start of this season: in each of his years in Minnesota, Mitch Garver has worn a different uniform number.Now, it’s of course not unusual for players to change numbers, even after a couple seasons: ex-Twin Danny Valencia switched to 22 after a pair of seasons wearing 19, and Red Sox center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. changed to 19 after four years donning No. 25 on his back. But Garver’s changes - three numbers in three seasons - is fascinating.2017: No. 43Like all young players, Garver had to work his way towards the lower range of uniform numbers. In 2016’s spring training, Garver wore No. 82 before receiving 43 Ken Griffey Jersey , a number that has rarely been worn by a Twin, the following February. When recalled from AAA-Rochester in August, Garver kept that number, becoming the second straight backup catcher to wear 43 for Minnesota. The previous owner, Josmil Pinto, had last played in Target Field in 2014; before Pinto, no Twin had sported the number 43 on his back for 50 years. (The player in question: pitcher Don Williams, who appeared in three games for Minnesota in 1963 and recorded a 10.38 ERA.)But Garver’s tenure in those digits would be a short one: in January 2018, the Twins signed Addison Reed, who has worn No. 43 for his entire MLB career. Garver ceded the number to Reed and selected a new one:2018: No. 23Backup infielder and September call-up Niko Goodrum had worn 23 in 2017, but with his departure, the number became available for Garver. (Two notes. First, Goodrum has since found success as a Detroit Tiger, which is wonderful for him but unfortunate for Twins fans. Second, in 2017 training camp, a Red Sox announcer called Goodrum’s entire at-bat thinking he was Nick Gordon, who was on deck, and didn’t realize the mistake until the real Gordon came up; I cannot find the video anywhere, which is supremely disappointing.) In the history of Minnesota (and pre-1961 Washington) baseball, 23 has been a far more popular number than 43 http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authen...martinez-jersey , with 40 players donning the former number and eight the latter. In fact, Goodrum was the second player to wear a Minnesota uniform with No. 23 on the back in 2017, following the sole 1.2-inning start of Nick Tepesch. And history has shown that most players who wore this number for the franchise have not done so for a lengthy period of time; the longest run of a single Twin wearing 23 was pitcher Dave Boswell from 1964 to 1970.Perhaps it is then fitting that Garver once again surrendered his uniform number, this time to Nelson Cruz. Instead, when he takes the field this spring, Garver will be wearing...2019: No. 18The third number on Garver’s back (not counting that 82 from spring ‘16) is also the most popular in Minnesota, with 48 players in franchise history sporting these digits. The longest-tenured is also the most well-known by fans: former closer and bullpen coach Eddie Guardado, who sported No. 18 from 1993 to 2003, again in 2008 for another brief stint with the team, and again when on the Twins’ coaching staff. The last person to wear the number in Minnesota as a player is Ryan Doumit, like Garver, a catcher. Doumit, however, did not wear 18 for his entire time in Minnesota, but only for the 2012 season, after which he halved it and donned No. 9 for the team in 2013.Hmm... perhaps Garver’s constant digit-swapping was foreshadowed all along.