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CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins will meet Thursday afternoon at Progressive Field in the final game of their four-game series. Based on what has happened in the first three games, the fact that there is one more game left in the series is good news for Minnesota and bad news for Cleveland.Minnesota has reached double figures in runs in each of the first three games and put a frightful pounding on Clevelands vaunted starting rotation.In the first three games, Minnesota has outscored the Indians 35-16 and outhit Cleveland 48-27.Weve gotten it going offensively. Youve got to enjoy these things whenever they come along, Twins manager Paul Molitor said.Indians manager Terry Francona said, Theyve done it to us three days in a row. Theyve had their way with us and its not a fluke. Theyve beat us around.In the past three games, Indians starting pitchers Danny Salazar, Carlos Carrasco and Trevor Bauer combined for a 22.68 ERA, as they allowed 21 earned runs and 23 hits in 8 1/3 innings.As if getting blown out in three consecutive games wasnt bad enough, the Indians, if they dont turn it around soon, are in danger of falling out of first place in the American League Central for the first time in two months.Cleveland, which has been alone in first place since June 4, has lost seven of its last 11 games, and that has coincided with an eight-game winning streak by second-place Detroit. The Indians led the division by as many as 7 1/2 games on July 20, but their lead over the Tigers is now down to two games.Youve got to play through the tough times because they are inevitable. They happen to everyone, Francona said. But I confident well bounce back.To do so, the Indians will have to rely on rookie right-hander Mike Clevinger, who will be recalled from Triple-A Columbus and start Thursday. Clevinger is taking Danny Salazars spot in the rotation. Salazar was placed on the disabled list Tuesday with an inflammed right elbow.Clevinger was 11-1 with a 3.00 ERA at Columbus. He was up with the Indians earlier this season and appeared in four games, three of them starts. In those four appearances, he was 0-1 with a 7.71 ERA. He is considered one of the top pitching prospects in the organization, and the Indians could use a boost. Clevelands starting pitcher has lasted fewer than four innings in all three games of the Minnesota series.After Wednesdays game, the Indians optioned pitchers Shawn Armstrong and Cody Anderson to Columbus. They will recall two pitchers on Thursday, one of whom will be Clevinger.The Twins have quietly become one of the hotter teams in the American League. Theyve won four games in a row, six of their last seven games, and in their last 25 games they are 16-9.In Thursdays game, the Twins will start left-hander Hector Santiago, who will be making his Twins debut, after being acquired earlier in the week in a trade with the Angels. As a member of the Angels, Santiago faced Cleveland on June 10 and gave up six runs and seven hits in 1 1/3 innings.In 22 starts overall this year, Santiago is 10-4 with a 4.25 ERA. In seven career starts against the Indians, he is 2-2 with a 5.94 ERA. Black NFL Jerseys For Sale . Only three players drafted by NHL clubs were included on the Czech selection camp roster on Wednesday. Those players were Dallas Stars 2012 first-rounder Radek Faksa, Winnipeg Jets 2013 fourth-rounder Jan Kostalek and Phoenix Coyotes 2012 seventh-rounder Marek Langhamer. 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HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Newly disclosed allegations from men who have accused Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse raise fresh questions about what his fellow Penn State assistant coaches might have seen or known in the decades before his November 2011 arrest, and why theyve largely stayed silent since.Sanduskys former colleagues found themselves on the defensive this week because of claims in court documents that some of the couple of dozen assistants who spent time in the program while he was there may have witnessed Sandusky abusing children as far back as the 1980s.Aside from blanket denials made through lawyers and spokespeople, the former assistants who worked alongside Sandusky have said little publicly about the scandal.These guys are very sensitive to their employment. Its not easy to go out and replace a half-million-dollar income, said Penn State Trustee Anthony Lubrano, who is close with the family of the late head football coach Joe Paterno. I get why theyre not standing in front of a microphone screaming from the top of their lungs.Three of the four coaches named in newly released depositions given by men who reached settlements with Penn State made statements this week denying claims that they witnessed or were aware of Sanduskys abuse. The fourth coach, Joe Sarra, died four years ago.The Paterno familys lawyer issued a statement last week casting doubt on a bombshell claim in the documents that a boy told Paterno in 1976 that Sandusky had abused him and that Paterno didnt want to hear about it.Paterno told a grand jury in 2011 he first learned of Sanduskys conduct in 2001, when then-assistant coach Mike McQueary went to him after seeing Sandusky assaulting a boy in a team shower.Sandusky coached for Paterno for three decades starting in 1969, leading staunch defenses that helped win two national titles in the 1980s.He founded a charity for at-risk children in 1977 and was often seen around the football facility with young boys, sometimes taking them on the road to big games. Even after his 1999 retirement, Sandusky kept an office on campus and had access to a staff locker room.When we saw the pictures of those kids on the sidelines at bowl games -- I know it was hindsight, but it looked odd, said Duquesne Law professor Wes Oliver, who has followed the case closely. The assistant coaches saw all that and more.But, Oliver added: Suspicious behavior is, of course, one thing. Actual acts are something else. One could imagine a natural reluctance to speak out about merely suspicious behavior.ddddddddddddSandusky is serving 30 to 60 years in prison for his conviction on 45 counts of sexual abuse.His 2012 trial covered abuse dating to the mid-1990s, but Penn State has acknowledged it later settled with a man who said he was abused in 1971. That man is among 32 people who have shared $92 million in civil settlements from the university.McQueary, a key prosecution witness at Sanduskys trial, gave a deposition last year in which he claimed former assistant coach Tom Bradley said he knew of some things about Sandusky dating to the early 1980s.McQueary, who is pursuing a defamation and whistleblower lawsuit against Penn State, said Bradley told him former assistant coach Greg Schiano went to him in the early 1990s white as a ghost and said he just saw Jerry doing something to a boy in the shower.A lawyer for Bradley, now UCLAs defensive coordinator, said he never witnessed any inappropriate behavior, and has no knowledge of alleged incidents in the 1980s and 1990s.The lawyer, Brett Senior, declined to answer questions, saying this things gone on too long and its all been asked and answered.Schiano, now Ohio States defensive coordinator, tweeted that he never saw abuse or had any reason to suspect it while working at Penn State.Lawyer Tom Kline, whose client testified against Sandusky and later settled with Penn State, encouraged former coaches to come forward and clear the air.The passage of time can be convenient for a claim of a failed recollection, but the things that were talking about are not things which escape the recollection, even over decades, Kline said.One former assistant coach who has spoken up since Sanduskys arrest said coaches sometimes showered alongside Sandusky and boys.Dick Anderson, who also played with Sandusky at Penn State in the 1960s, testified at his trial that on occasion, over the years he would see Sandusky showering with boys.Jay Paterno, the coachs son who also was on the Penn State coaching staff, wrote in a column this week that the coaches have been forthcoming in statements to police, lawyers in civil cases and reporters, as well as for the university-commissioned Freeh report.Coaches turned over cellphones, email accounts, computers and iPads, and what did they find to reveal some vast conspiracy spanning decades? he wrote. Nothing.---Sisak reported from Philadelphia. ' ' '