Cleveland Indians Events

1920 Oct 5
to 1920 Oct 12
 1920 World Series
In the 1920 World Series, the Cleveland Indians beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, then known interchangeably as the Robins in reference to their manager Wilbert Robinson, in seven games, five ga...
1948 Oct 6
to 1948 Oct 11
 1948 World Series
The 1948 World Series matched the Cleveland Indians against the Boston Braves. The Braves had won the National League pennant for the first time since the "Miracle Braves" team of 1914. T...
1954 Sep 29 Willie Mays Makes "The Catch" In Game 1 of the 1954 World Series
The Catch refers to a memorable defensive baseball play by Willie Mays on September 29, 1954, during Game 1 of the 1954 World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians...
1954 Oct 1
to 1954 Oct 5
 1954 World Series
The 1954 World Series matched the National League champion New York Giants against the American League champion Cleveland Indians. The Giants swept the Series in four games to win their f...
1981 May 15 Len Barker Pitches a Perfect Game
Leonard Harold Barker III (born July 7, 1955 in Fort Knox, Kentucky), better known as Lenny Barker or Len Barker, is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He playe...
1989 Apr 7 Major League Released
Major League is a 1989 American Satire comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, and Corbin Bernsen. Made for US...
1995 Oct 21
to 1995 Oct 28
 1995 World Series
1995 World Series After losing the World Series to the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992 and falling to the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League Championship in '93, the Atlanta Braves...
1997 Oct 18
to 1997 Oct 26
 1997 World Series
1997 World Series The four year-old expansion team known as the Florida Marlins represented the best (and worst) of parody in Major League baseball. Despite becoming the youngest team ...
2004 May 3 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-1
2004 May 4 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-6
CLEVELAND -- Hall of Famer Eddie Murray has a novel approach to slump-breaking: The Indians hitting coach lights incense in the clubhouse before a game. Maybe the Red Sox should try th...
2004 May 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 9-5
CLEVELAND -- So how did the new Red Sox manager handle the strain of his first five-game losing streak? Did he lock himself in his office, leave a dent in the dugout water cooler, snap...
2004 May 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 5-2
CLEVELAND -- Manny Ramirez, holding court in the Red Sox clubhouse, broke away from a gaggle of reporters when Pedro Martinez arrived before the game wearing a fancy suit, designer shades...
2004 May 10 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 10-6
Byung Hyun Kim's brief, futile run as a starter ended so abruptly last night it could have caused whiplash. In a powerful sign that the Red Sox will have little patience with mediocrit...
2004 May 11 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 5-3
When you manage the Red Sox, most of the time you have a dartboard on your back. You're picked apart, analyzed, dissected. And then sometimes the things you do work out and you have a big...
2004 May 12 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-4
Jamie Brown found a perfect spot in the Red Sox clubhouse. His locker stall is between Pedro Martinez's and Keith Foulke's. "Those two can keep me straight," said Brown, who spent his ...
2005 Jun 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 10-9
CLEVELAND -- His eyes fatigued and his voice steady but quieter than usual, David Wells looked less like Boomer and more like a Baby Boomer. In fact, it looked like he'd been napping. ...
2005 Jun 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 9-2
CLEVELAND -- His ability to project the future prices of many types of goods made John Henry a billionaire capable of one day buying the Red Sox. His ability to project the future talent ...
2005 Jun 22 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 5-4
CLEVELAND -- Keith Foulke won (he's 5-3). Alan Embree inherited a bases-loaded situation in the sixth inning and escaped unscored upon (he fanned a batter looking, then induced a double p...
2005 Jun 27 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-0
It was all too good, far too good to continue. The wins, 12 in 13 games. The hits, 10 or more in 12 of 13 games. The starting pitching, 9-0 with a 2.20 ERA in those 13 games. The 96-36 cu...
2005 Jun 28 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 12-8
We do not have to quote him on being squeezed by plate umpire Larry Young, or bail him out by saying Mark Bellhorn should have tagged out Jody Gerut at second after a perfect throw from M...
2005 Jun 29 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 5-2
All they wanted was a routine ballgame. No late-game disasters. Good starting pitching, timely hitting, effective relief. The Sox needed it about as much as they've needed it in any...
2006 Apr 25 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 8-6
CLEVELAND -- He never had thrown this many pitches in a Red Sox uniform, or for anyone else in almost six years. In 534 big-league starts going back 19 seasons, he'd thrown more pitches j...
2006 Apr 26 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-1
CLEVELAND -- In a Red Sox clubhouse quiet except for the sound of men eating, in the wake of four Josh Bard passed balls, and in the absence of enough offense to mask the catching deficie...
2006 Apr 27 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 15-3
CLEVELAND -- Now that we have incontrovertible proof Josh Beckett will not go undefeated in his first season with the Red Sox -- the next thing you know, Jonathan Papelbon is going to blo...
2006 Jul 31 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 9-8
John W. Henry thought he'd said everything he wanted to say about David Ortiz once before, under similarly inspiring circumstances. But on second thought . . . ``So," Henry said on a F...
2006 Aug 1 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-3
So if Rudy Seanez never threw over, and none of the Red Sox infielders bothered to pay any attention, do you credit the black bird with a steal in the top of the ninth or do you call it d...
2006 Aug 2 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 6-5
Wily Mo Peña, fresh off his near-maiming of a man in the front row of the Monster seats, sat in the Red Sox dugout, looking at the few fans leaving the park with two outs in the bottom of...
2006 Aug 3 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-6
Christina Aguilera's song ``Ain't No Other Man" blared in the visitors' clubhouse after the Indians' 7-6 victory over the Red Sox last night at Fenway Park. It seemed a fitting postgam...
2007 Apr 27 Cleveland Indians defeat Baltimore Orioles, 5-4
CLEVELAND -- This time, it took only four pitches for the Orioles' suddenly vulnerable bullpen to turn a lead into a sizable deficit and for an important slump-breaking win to turn into a...
2007 Apr 28 Baltimore Orioles defeat Cleveland Indians, 7-4
CLEVELAND -- This we know: Closer Chris Ray pitched a scoreless ninth inning last night and the game ended with the Orioles celebrating a 7-4 comeback victory over the Cleveland Indians a...
2007 Apr 29 Cleveland Indians defeat Baltimore Orioles, 6-1
Wright not sharp Jaret Wright, on the disabled list since April 11 because of right shoulder soreness, returned but didn't look sharp or healthy. He labored from the beginning, walking...
2007 May 4 Baltimore Orioles defeat Cleveland Indians, 3-2
Perfect 10 Though the Orioles struggled to cash in on chances throughout the game, they made up for it in the 10th inning. Jay Payton led off the inning with a single, and Corey Patter...
2007 May 5 Baltimore Orioles defeat Cleveland Indians, 8-2
In case the Orioles had forgotten, this is what an offense looks like when it opens up. When runners on base actually get to circle them.When collecting multiple hits in an inning doesn't...
2007 May 6 Cleveland Indians defeat Baltimore Orioles, 9-6
On the same day that Roger Clemens signed with the New York Yankees to bolster a rotation that's been ravaged by injuries, the Orioles sent Brian Burres to the mound as a means of repairi...
2007 May 7 Cleveland Indians defeat Baltimore Orioles, 10-1
Lessons not learned, Part I The Orioles did absolutely nothing against Cleveland starter Fausto Carmona when they saw him eight days earlier, managing just six hits and one earned run ...
2007 May 28 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 5-3
It was a night for standing, for 36,910-person ovations, for Curt Schilling tipping his cap after seven innings of scintillating splitters, for Trot Nixon's return to Boston, for Kevin Yo...
2007 May 29 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 4-2
Five straight wins and the best record in baseball (36-15), but when Terry Francona surveys the Red Sox clubhouse, what does he see? "A dozen or so below-average cribbage players," the...
2007 May 30 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-4
The Red Sox were hanging en masse on the dugout railing in the seventh inning last night. For an instant, when their returning slugger, David Ortiz, launched a drive toward the right-fiel...
2007 Jul 23 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 6-2
CLEVELAND -- Facing any batter with the bases loaded, even one as talented as Grady Sizemore, doesn't even register among the most difficult moments of the past year for Jon Lester. But, ...
2007 Jul 24 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 1-0
CLEVELAND -- Eric Hinske's fork was digging into the last of his baked potato as he sat at one of the round tables that occupy the open space in the visitors' clubhouse at Jacobs Field. H...
2007 Jul 25 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 1-0
CLEVELAND -- The silence that marked the Red Sox clubhouse after last night's game was different than that which marked the room the night before. Instead of calm confidence coming fro...
2007 Jul 26 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 14-9
CLEVELAND -- The postgame dinner was filet mignon, a treat for a Red Sox team that had won three of four against the wild-card-leading Indians at Jacobs Field. They carefully carved up...
2007 Oct 12 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 10-3
Sometime in the last couple of weeks, maybe they've been out of luck, out of sorts, out of whack, out of time, out of money (on second thought, scratch that last one). But simply out? ...
2007 Oct 13 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 13-6
The first round of curtain calls last night at Fenway Park, while well-deserved, proved premature. The bows by Manny Ramírez and Mike Lowell after their back-to-back home runs in the fift...
2007 Oct 15 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-2
CLEVELAND - He was painfully polite, as he always is, to the very end, which once again came much too soon for Daisuke Matsuzaka. It is his custom to wait, when he is being taken out o...
2007 Oct 16 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-3
CLEVELAND - The idea was to pass "Go" and win a trip to Blake Street in Denver for a rendezvous with the Colorado Rockies in the 103d World Series. Instead, the Red Sox have stumbled into...
2007 Oct 18 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 7-1
CLEVELAND - It's Saturday night alive for the Red Sox. Cleveland may rock, but it was the Red Sox who rolled last night in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, beating th...
2007 Oct 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 12-2
J.D. Drew went from pillory to pedestal with a single swing, Curt Schilling had another made-for-October moment, and Daisuke Matsuzaka will be given one more chance to prove himself to bo...
2007 Oct 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 11-2
There are no shortcuts, this path to the World Series, and no shortage of suspense. The Red Sox traced their return passage to the Series through Yokohama and Kyoto, Sacramento and Sta...
2008 Apr 14 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 6-4
It was a long winter for the Cleveland Indians after they blew a 3-1 lead against Boston in the AL championship series, and the first meeting between the teams this season had a familiar ...