Cleveland (32-24) defeated the White Sox (34-22), 3-2, in walk-off fashion for the second straight night, this time a solo homer off the bat of Jordan Luplow…marks the first time Cleveland has had walk-off home runs on back-to-back nights since August 23-24, 2002 against Seattle (Josh Bard and Karim Garcia)…Tribe has 13 walk-offs against the White Sox since 2013, when Terry Francona took over as manager, the most against any opponent…Cleveland has won 6 of 7 following its 8-game losing skid…has won 5 consecutive games against Chicago-AL and improves to 7-2 against the ChiSox and 14-9 against the A.L. Central in 2020…Tribe is now 26-6 when scoring 3-or-more runs this season.
Shane Bieber (5.0IP, 2H, 1R-0ER, 3BB, 10SO, 98 pitches/57 strikes) recorded his MLB-best 8th double-digit strikeout game of the 2020 season…Bieber has collected eight-or-more strikeouts in all 12 starts, the longest streak to start a season in Cleveland history and the second-longest in MLB history behind Randy Johnson’s 15 consecutive to start a season in 2000…the Tribe improves to 10-2 in his starts…Bieber leads the A.L. in wins (8), strikeouts (122) and ERA (1.63).