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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- If Dave Burba faced the Milwaukee Brewers every
game, he might wind up in the Hall of Fame.
David Justice had a pair of home runs and four RBI to back
Burba, who won his fifth consecutive decision and led the Cleveland
Indians over the Brewers 8-4 Monday night.
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Burba (6-1) allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings,
striking out eight as Cleveland won its third straight. He improved
to 3-0 with a 2.38 ERA against the Brewers.
"I battled all the way through the game," he said. "There
wasn't an inning it seemed like it was easy or I knew I was going
to get the guys out. I was having problems throwing strikes, I
couldn't get my offspeed pitches over. It was just a battle all
night."
Justice hit a sacrifice fly in the first after Jeff D'Amico
walked Kenny Lofton, Omar Vizquel and Jim Thome, then hit a solo
homer in the fourth and a two-run drive off Steve Woodard that
made it 8-3 in the fifth. Justice, who has 14 homers this season,
had the 17th multihomer game of his career, his first this year.
Justice's homers gave him 14 for the season and 249 for his
career, a statistic that surprised him.
"Since I knew I wasn't going to chase down Hank Aaron, I
stopped counting," he said. "I'm proud of it but the ultimate
goal, and I'm glad I already achieved it, is a World Series
championship."
D'Amico (2-4) lost his third consecutive game, allowing six runs
and seven hits in four innings.
"It's definitely a tough lineup, but it makes it even tougher
when you're 2-1, 3-1," he said of his control problems. "It was
pathetic."
Jeromy Burnitz has a sacrifice fly that pulled the Brewers to
2-1 in the third, but Cleveland blew open the game with a two-run
fourth that included consecutive homers by Justice and Travis Fryman, and Vizquel's two-run, two out single.
Run-scoring singles by Tyler Houston and Ron Belliard made it
6-3 in the fourth. Geoff Jenkins had an RBI single in the seventh
off Scott Kamieniecki.
Game notes
The Brewers made 18-year-old CF Dave Krnyzel the 11th pick
in the draft. ... Cleveland reliever Justin Speier is the son of
Brewer third base coach Chris Speier. ... Cleveland has hit
consecutive homers four times this season.
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