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 CLEVELAND (AP) - Fausto Carmona pitched eight shutout innings against Boston, the team that blasted him when he flopped as a closer last season, leading the Cleveland Indians over the Red Sox 1-0 on Wednesday night.
Carmona (13-4) improved to 5-0 in July, allowing four singles and raising his scoreless innings streak to 18. The hard-throwing right-hander was just slightly better than Josh Beckett (13-4), who lost on the road for the first time since last September.
The 23-year-old had not faced the Red Sox since blowing consecutive save chances at Fenway Park last season, two outings three nights apart that rattled the right-hander and all but finished the Indians' experiment with him as their closer.
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