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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Shin-Soo Choo sat at his locker in the Indians clubhouse, the bruise on the outside of his right knee just larger than a baseball and turning every shade of red and blue imaginable. "Its nothing," he said with a smile. Driving in the winning runs must have made the pain go away in a hurry. After getting hit by a pitch early in the game, Choo delivered a two-out double in the 10th inning Saturday night that sent Cleveland to an 11-9 victory over Kansas City -- despite blowing a seven-run lead in a testy affair marked by three ejections and a pair of bench-clearings. "What a crazy kind of emotional game," said Indians manager Manny Acta, who was among those thrown out during an eventful third inning. "Just glad we came out on top." Light-hitting Yuniesky Betancourt helped force extras when he homered in the eighth inning for the Royals, completing their bit-by-bit comeback from a 9-2 hole. With two outs in the 10th, Choo pounded a pitch from Greg Holland (0-1) to centre field that Jarrod Dyson tracked down at the wall. He appeared to have the ball in his glove before it popped loose, and Jason Kipnis and Michael Brantley came around with the go-ahead runs. Jairo Asencio (1-1) earned his first major league win by pitching a clean ninth inning, while Chris Perez set the Royals down in order for his second save of the season. "Always you try to win games," Choo said, "but especially tonight." Choo was plunked by Jonathan Sanchez in the third inning, sending both teams streaming onto the infield. Sanchez and Choo have some history: The left-hander broke Choos thumb last season by hitting him with a pitch. Choo wound up on the disabled list for nearly two months. "I know its not on purpose. The catcher set up inside," Choo said. "But I still have the memory from last year. Maybe I was a little sensitive." Tempers were still simmering in the bottom half when Cleveland starter Jeanmar Gomez hit Mike Moustakas leading off the inning. Plate umpire Gary Darling immediately tossed Gomez along with Acta and third baseman Jack Hannahan, who rushed into the middle of the fray. Royals manager Ned Yost was also in the middle of the scrap, losing his hat as he got into Hannahans face between the mound and first base. "I dont really know what they were thinking," Yost said. "They had to go to their pen early. We had to go to our pen early. Its one of those things." Carlos Santana, Jose Lopez and Kipnis each drove in a pair of runs for the Indians, who have come alive after a miserable five-game stretch to start the season. They scored seven times in the first inning while taking the series opener, and piled up 14 hits on Saturday night. Things soured for Sanchez early in the third, when Brantley ripped a one-out triple to the wall. Asdrubal Cabrera followed with an RBI single, and Sanchez plunked Choo on the right knee. Choo started jawing at Sanchez as he headed toward first base, and the Royals starter dished the trash talk right back at him. Hannahan rushed at Sanchez before the umpires and coaches from both teams intervened, restoring order before tempers boiled over. "I hit him twice. I have nothing against him," Sanchez said. "I just wanted to come in with those pitches. But if youre going to miss, miss in. Im not going to miss over the plate." The Indians immediately pounced on the rattled Sanchez, piling up five runs before he was finally lifted from his Kauffman Stadium debut after 2 2-3 innings. The Royals got a pair of runs back in the third, but Cleveland scored another run in the fourth and added three more in the fifth -- Kotchman went deep leading off the inning, and Kipnis followed a base hit by Jason Donald with his own homer to make it 9-2. Then Royals rally started in the most innocuous of ways. Betancourt singled to lead off the fifth inning, and an RBI double by Moustakas and an RBI by Escobar on a double-play groundout made it 9-4. Kansas City added two more runs in the sixth. Butler ripped a one-out double to left field, and an error on Kipnis at second base allowed Betancourt to reach first and keep the inning alive for Moustakas, whose RBI double pulled the Royals within three runs. Hosmers run-scoring double and Butlers RBI single made it a one-run game in the seventh, and Betancourt finally tied it on a 2-2 pitch from Vinnie Pestano leading off the eighth. Choo made all the hard work coming back moot. "We were down seven and you want to hold the fort, so you can chip your way back into," Yost said. "We did tonight, but we just couldnt get that one extra run to close the game out." NOTES: Indians RHP Ubaldo Jimenez pitches the series finale against Royals RHP Luis Mendoza. ... The Indians have homered each of their first seven games, the fourth-best season-opening stretch since at least 1918. ... Royals starters allowed seven runs in 34 innings over their first six games. Theyve allowed 12 in 6 2-3 innings against Cleveland. Ugg Boots Boxing Day Sale . Though commissioner David Stern and deputy commissioner Adam Silver have insisted throughout the lockout they needed the potential for both in a new collective bargaining agreement, there was often a belief -- even from players -- that money mattered most. Ugg Canada Boxing Day Sale . Ware, a world championship bronze medallist this past summer on three-metre, posted victories on 10m tower with 325.90 points on Saturday, and on the three-metre with 345. http://www.bootsinsnowsale.com/ . How could they go from a 5-0 lead with a season-high 14 hits only to be losing again? "He could tell, all of us with our heads down, frustrated," Bartlett said. Ugg Boots Canada Sale .m. Santa Clara, CA (Sports Network) - The San Jose Earthquakes will try to build on a surprising run to the Eastern Conference finals last season when the club opens its 2011 Major League Soccer campaign against Real Salt Lake at Buck Shaw Stadium. Ugg Canada Clearance . Hell be the first to tell anyone that the save really belongs to Tigers centre-fielder Austin Jackson. Jackson threw out Kosuke Fukudome at the plate to complete a game-ending double play and Detroit held on to beat the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a wild game Sunday. LONDON -- Canada will get its choice of venue and surface when it faces top-ranked Spain in the first round of the 2013 Davis Cup World Group. While that means the Canadians will be able to maximize the talents of hard-serving Milos Raonic, team captain Martin Laurendeau doesnt think theres a surface out there that can slow down the powerful Spanish. "The Spaniards win everything from clay to grass, to indoors to outdoors," he said Wednesday on a conference call from Montreal. "Theyre good and they have the depth to really not be fooled by any kind of surface." Still, hosting the tie and having control over the venue provides the best chance Canada has against the Davis Cup juggernaut. They will be able to stay away from clay surfaces, which favour the Spanish and deaden the serve of world No. 15 Raonic. "Weve just got to be sure we pick the surface and the conditions that really will help to help maximize our No. 1 player," Laurendeau said. "Hes obviously shown that he can beat a lot of top players. "If we were to play in Spain, they would for sure play us on clay, even if its indoors. Now we have the opportunity to play on a surface that suits our game a lot more. We can control that, so thats the reassuring part." The two teams have met only once before, with Spain winning 4-1 at home on clay in 1991. Given Canadas weather and the Feb. 1-3 dates for the best-of-five series, an indoor venue was pretty much a lock. Laurendeau said hes sure Tennis Canadas phone will be ringing off the hook with offers to host, but theres no rush to commit and they will make a strategic decision. Canada is ranked No. 12 in the 16-team World Group and kept their spot in the competitions elite group with a 4-1 victory over South Africa in a playoff last weekend. Earlier this year, Canada lost 4-1 to France in the first round of World Group play. Laurendeau said tennis has great momentum right now in Canada and a match like this will only give that a boost. "But on the other hand, we are playing the best team of the draw. So its a toough assignment," he added.dddddddddddd "But eventually, like Ive said before, we need to beat a seeded team and the best chance we have to beat a seeded team will be at home. "So, whether its France or its Spain or another country, we need to pull an upset somewhere. We do have players and we do have doubles who are in a position to win and upset a team at the moment. I really believe that." Spains captain Alex Corretja isnt taking the Canadians lightly. "Canada was one of the strongest rivals we could have gotten, not only for the quality of a team led by Milos Raonic but also because well have to play as visiting team just one week after the Australian Open, which means another long trip and time change," he said. "It will be a complicated tie." Elsewhere, Switzerland was paired against the Czech Republic in Wednesdays draw, setting up a potential head-to-head between two of the top players in the game -- Roger Federer and Tomas Berdych. The top-ranked Federer has a career 11-5 record against Berdych, but the No. 6 Czech defeated him in four sets at the U.S. Open. Berdych also beat Federer in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2010 and at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Switzerland will be at home for the series. Federer does not always play in the early rounds of the Davis Cup, and his plans for 2013 are uncertain. In other matches, the United States will be at home against Brazil, and Argentina will host Germany. Its also France versus Israel, Kazakhstan versus Austria, Italy versus Croatia and Belgium versus Serbia. Federer played in last weekends playoff against the Netherlands, winning both of his singles matches to lead Switzerland to a 3-2 victory that ensured his country stayed in the World Group for 2013. Berdych secured all three points for the Czechs in their semifinal win over Argentina. The Czechs will host Spain in the final Nov. 16-18. The Czechs hold a 6-2 advantage against Switzerland, although the Swiss won the last time they met on home soil in 1998. -- With files from The Associated Press cheap nfl jerseys ' ' '


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