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CLEVELAND -- As the losses pile up, the pressure builds.The Minnesota Twins havent won in two weeks and manager Paul Molitor senses his team is close to breaking.Its been a long week, Molitor said after Minnesota dropped its 13th straight, 8-4 to the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night. We need to try to find a way to win a game at some point to just lighten the load. Its getting heavy. Guys are getting on the edge a little bit.You can feel it. Its building.Corey Kluber struck out a season-high 11 and notched his seventh straight win for the Indians, who pushed the Twins within one loss of tying the club record.Unbeaten since July 3, Kluber (15-8) allowed three runs and six hits in eight solid innings to tame the Twins, winless since Aug. 17. The right-hander is 7-0 with a 1.94 ERA in his last 10 starts.The Twins skid is the lengthiest in the majors this season, and also the second-longest in team history. They also lost 13 in a row in 1961 and 1982, when they dropped 14 in a row.Molitor has been on both sides of streaks. The Hall of Famer was with Milwaukee in 1987, when the Brewers opened the season with 13 consecutive wins.We got to 20-3 and then we lost 12 in row so we gave them all back, he said. We won 13 at the start, which was pretty cool, but you dont want to go from 20-3 to 20-15. It was tough.So is this stretch for the Twins, who dropped to 49-84 -- the worst record in either league.Brian Dozier hit his 32nd homer and Max Kepler connected for his 16th for the Twins, who rallied in the ninth by loading the bases with two outs against rookie Perci Garner, making his major league debut. Clevelands Bryan Shaw came on and threw a wild pitch to score a run before striking out Dozier for his first save.The Twins packed up afterward and headed home to begin a four-game series against the Chicago White Sox.I think Ill be relieved once we get a win, not because one guy hit a home run, Kepler said. I just want to win right now. Its tough. This is the first time Ive experienced it. Its not easy mentally or physically on any of the pitchers or the hitters.Carlos Santana and Roberto Perez homered off Pat Dean (1-5), and Jose Ramirez hit a two-run double during a five-run fifth as the AL Central-leading Indians swept the three-game series.For seven-plus innings, Kluber had little trouble against the ALs worst team. The 2014 Cy Young Award winner, who followed up an 18-win season by losing 16 last year, struck out four of the first six batters and carried a 7-1 lead into the eighth, when Dozier tagged him for a two-run homer.The Indians chased Dean in the fifth, when Perez homered, Santana hit an RBI single, Ramirez doubled home a pair and pinch-hitter Lonnie Chisenhall delivered a sacrifice fly off reliever J.T. Chargois.Keplers 418-foot shot to straightaway center tied it 1-1 in the third. It was Keplers 11th hit -- and sixth homer -- against Cleveland this season. He homered three times at Progressive Field on Aug. 1.The Indians took a 1-0 lead in the second when Abraham Almonte pulled a two-out RBI double inside the bag at third.DOZIERS AUGUSTDozier finished the month with 13 homers, one shy of the team record for homers in any month. Harmon Killebrew hit 14 homers in June 1964. Dozier batted .302 in August and had 24 extra-base hits.TRAINERS ROOMTwins: OF Danny Santana will likely miss the remainder of the season with a sprained left shoulder. Santana got hurt last weekend when he collided with teammate Robbie Grossman in Toronto. Molitor said Santana needs more than a month to recover and the team intends to shut him down rather than rush him back.UP NEXTTwins: Ervin Santana, the subject of trade rumors in recent days, will open a four-game series at home against the Chicago White Sox. Fake Vapormax Flyknit . But by the time the game started, the Toronto Raptors forward felt even worse. And, for three quarters, it showed as Gay shot a woeful three-for-13 from the field. Cheap Vapormax Flyknit 3 . Booth picked up 65 caps after making her national team debut in 2002 at the age of 17. She most recently played for Sky Blue FC of the National Womens Soccer League. 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We got the lot in the six games of Round 5, with a low-scoring affair in Cairns that centred entirely on the defensive end and a high-octane offensive showdown in Perth.The ladder also saw more moves than a game of chess, with Cairns rising from eighth to fourth and Melbourne for the first time in a long time sitting bottom.Questions have been raised about the security of coaching positions, and the fact star players are not all performing at the level we know they can. Its still early in the season and panic shouldnt sweep the locker rooms, but teams still need to start paying close attention to the warning signs and putting into place plans for the dangers that may lie ahead.So who and what stood out during NBL Round 5?Snakes and LaddersLose your first three games of the season and plenty of questions get raised and the best way to silence the doubters is to win. Thats exactly what Cairns Taipans have done in claiming three of their next four games to climb off the bottom of the ladder.How have the Snakes turned it around? Defensive intensity. The Taipans gave up an average 86.33 points per game during their opening three losses, but that has dropped to 71.66 in their wins.Cairns now own the third-best defensive rating in the league, giving up an average of 79 points, behind only Perth Wildcats (77.85) and Sydney Kings (76.12).Superstars CollideCataclysmic events are a rare occurrence but thats what we saw in Perth, where two MVP front-runners squared off and put their case forward for the award.Adelaides Jerome Randle and Perths Casey Prather have shown all season that theyre a notch above the rest, and they shone brightest yet again in Round 5.Randle finished the game with 40 points, shooting an impressive 60.9 percent from the floor, and nine assists just to go along. Prather finished with 28 points, eeight assists and, more importantly, the win.ddddddddddddDown to the WireSydney Kings and Cairns players got involved in a heated scuffle during the second quarter, and the Taipans Mark Worthington had the following to say at the halftime break: We have an all-in mentality. We didnt like what [Jason] Cadee did so we went all in.The game was on the verge of boiling over for the remainder, and it needed a cool hand to settle things; enter Kevin Lisch. The Boomers player nailed a pull-up jumper as the clock wound down to give the Kings the win and secure top spot for another week.Missing in ActionCorey Webster won one of the Player of the Month awards last season, when he was also named to the All NBL Second Team, but he is a shell of that player this season.Every single NBL fan knows Webster is near unstoppable when hes on, but they are scratching their heads this season in bemusement.Webster was on the floor for a total of 53 minutes and 45 seconds in Round 5, netting 14 points on 3/21 shooting at 14.28 percent, while making four assists, five turnovers and eight fouls. His play hasnt hurt the Breakers, but still they would love his production back so that they can solidify themselves as genuine contenders.Dig UpMelbourne United are in disarray, riding a four-game losing streak and seemingly having no answers.They started the round by going down in overtime to New Zealand, and that was a tough pill to swallow as they should have won the game. Star import David Andersen then finally found his game only for the rest of the team suddenly to lose theirs in a defeat by Illawarra that saw them sitting alone afoot the NBL ladder.NBA podcaster Tom Read explained how far they have fallen. ' ' '