CLEVELAND (AP) – Francisco Lindor hit one of Cleveland’s four solo homers and drove in three runs, and the Indians completed a four-game sweep of the World Series champion Kansas City Royals with a rain-delayed 7-0 victory Sunday.

Corey Kluber (5-6) allowed two hits and was pulled after the sixth inning when the game was delayed by inclement weather for 3 hours, 10 minutes.

Lindor, Carlos Santana and rookie Tyler Naquin homered in the fifth. Mike Napoli connected in the fourth.

The Indians moved past the Royals into first place in the AL Central on Saturday. Cleveland has won five straight overall and six of seven against Kansas City this season.

The Rossville Rattlers ( 1-2 ) used a three-run home run by Danny Mitchell Jr. in the fourth inning to defeat the Junction City Brigade 4-2 Saturday night at Rathert Field. The home run came off Brigade pitcher Pete Ruiz.

Junction City ( 2-1 ) had gone ahead 2-1 in the bottom of the third, but Mitchell’s big blast over the right field fence gave the Rattlers enough of a lead to preserve the win in the home opener for the Brigade at Rathert Field. The Brigade had eight hits in the ballgame, but none for extra bases. Junction City hitters walked four times.

Rossville had only two hits, but three batters were hit by pitches, and five more drew walks.

Junction City had defeated Rossville on both Thursday and Friday nights in Rossville.

The Brigade host the Midwest Athletics in a doubleheader Monday beginning at 5:30 p.m.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Francisco Lindor hit one of Cleveland’s three home runs, leading the Indians into first place in the AL Central with a 7-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night.

Lindor, whose two-run homer came in the seventh inning, became the first Indians player to record three extra-base hits in a game this season. He also started an outstanding defensive play in the ninth. Playing in a shift near second base, he made a backhand stop of Kendrys Morales’ hard-hit grounder and flipped to third baseman Jose Ramirez, who was playing behind second. Ramirez threw to first for the out.

Tyler Naquin hit a two-run homer in the sixth. Mike Napoli started the four-run inning with a solo homer.

Josh Tomlin (8-1) bounced back from his first loss of the season and allowed one run in 6 1/3 innings. Ian Kennedy (4-4) gave up five runs in six innings.

The Junction City Brigade scored three runs in the second inning and never trailed enroute to a 9-1 Mid Plains League baseball win over the Rossville Rattlers Friday night in Rossville.

The Brigade are off to a 2-0 start and will host Rossville Saturday night at 7 p.m. at Rathert Field in Junction City.

That game can be heard on the Talk of JC, KJCK AM.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Danny Salazar allowed one run and struck out nine in eight innings, and the Cleveland Indians defeated the Kansas City Royals 6-1 on Friday night

Yan Gomes homered in the second and Tyler Naquin hit his first major league home run in the seventh for the Indians.

Salazar (6-3) held Kansas City to three hits and was in command, other than giving up Drew Butera’s leadoff homer in the third. The right-hander has allowed two runs or less in nine of his 11 starts.

The Indians have won four of five over the defending World Series champions and trail the AL Central-leading Royals by a half-game.

Francisco Lindor’s RBI single in the third off Edinson Volquez (5-5) broke a 1-all tie and sparked a three-run rally. Mike Napoli followed with an RBI double while the third run scored on Volquez’s wild pitch.

IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Big 12 is bringing back its football championship game in 2017.

Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says the conference’s presidents and chancellors voted Friday to approve “in concept the re-implementation of a championship football game.”

How the 10-team conference will decide which teams play in the championship is still to be determined. The Big 12 currently plays a nine-game, round-robin schedule, with no divisions, but that could change even if the conference does not add members.

Bowlsby says: “We have a lot of details to work out.” The league has made no decision on whether to expand.

The NCAA recently approved the Big 12’s request to allow conferences to hold football championship games with less than the previously required 12 teams split into two divisions.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Kansas City Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas has had season-ending surgery on his right knee.

Moustakas tore his anterior cruciate ligament in a May 22 collision with teammate Alex Gordon. The team says Thursday that the operation was performed by Dr. James Andrews in Pensacola, Florida.

Moustakas was a key player in helping Kansas City win the World Series last season and was selected to the AL All-Star team. He batted .240 with seven home runs in 27 games this year.

Gordon broke his wrist in the collision and the left fielder also is on the disabled list.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Mike Napoli’s sacrifice fly scored Francisco Lindor with the winning run to cap a two-run ninth inning and the Cleveland Indians defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-4 Thursday night.

Cleveland rallied against Joakim Soria (2-2), filling in as closer for Wade Davis, who had pitched three of the last four days. Lindor’s triple tied the game before Napoli scored the game winner.

The loss ended Kansas City’s six-game winning streak.

Carlos Santana led off the Cleveland ninth with a single and made it to second on right fielder Paulo Orlando’s fielding error. After Jason Kipnis’ sacrifice, Lindor hit a line drive to right.

Orlando attempted a diving catch but the ball rolled to the wall. Pinch-runner Michael Martinez scored and Lindor slid headfirst into third with a triple.

Napoli’s fly ball to left was deep enough to score Lindor, who dived into home plate to give Cleveland its second straight walkoff win.

The Junction City Brigade got two home runs from Shilo Shaake enroute to an 11-3 season opening win over the Rossville Rattlers Thursday night in Rossville.

Shaake plays in the outfield for the Brigade, who play at Rossville again Friday night at 7 p.m.

Junction City hosts Rossville Saturday night at 7 p.m. at Rathert Field.