Francona Back In Boston; Indians Win

Baseball Tonight Spotlight: The Indians cruise past the Red Sox in Terry Francona's return to Fenway Park.

RED SOX: Indians pound out 16 hits in rout of Boston

Francona, versatile Indians return to Boston

Terry Francona returns to Boston on Thursday as manager of the Cleveland Indians to begin a four-game series against his former team. Francona managed the Boston Red Sox to two World Series championships (2004 and 2007), the first of which broke an 86-year championship drought.

Sals closer to making history

The GM's Office: Mark Of A Master

Indians GM Chris Antonetti stops by the GM's Office to break down how he pulled off the deals to get Terry Francona, Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher.

Buster Blog: Surprising Indians

Buster Olney blogs about the first-place Indians and how they work at-bats, which will help them in games against the Tigers.

MLB - Reynolds hits a dozen

Mark Reynolds hit his 12th home run of the season in the fifth inning against the Mariners. Last season, no Indians hitter had that many home runs at the All-Star Break (Asdrubal Cabrera and Jason Kipnis had 11 each).

Cleveland ships 3B Chisenhall to Triple-A

The Indians have optioned struggling starting third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall to Triple-A Columbus.

Indians Take Rubber Game From Tigers

From Elias: The Indians tied Sunday's game against Detroit with a run off Jose Valverde in the ninth inning and won it in the 10th against Darin Downs. Valverde has blown a save in each of his last two games against Cleveland (also last year on Sept. 16) after he had been 14 for 14 in save opportunities against the Indians. Mark Reynolds drove home the game-winning run with a 10th-inning single. Reynolds is 2 for 2 in extra-innings this season, matching his total of extra-inning hits for each of the last two seasons (2 for 19 in 2012, 2 for 14 in 2011).