OAKLAND, Calif. -- Having battled three tough games with the American League East leaders and with a four-game war with the Wests best coming up later this week, the AL Central-leading Cleveland Indians got a breather in a three-game series with the Oakland Athletics that begins Monday night.Right-hander Carlos Carrasco will seek to improve upon his already impressive road numbers when he duels As rookie Andrew Triggs in the series opener.The Indians arrive in Oakland having won eight of their last 11, including two of three in a tense series with the Blue Jays over the weekend.All three games were decided by one run, with the Indians gaining the upper hand Sunday on Jose Ramirezs two-run homer in the eighth inning.Ramirez is one of the hottest hitters in baseball. He has reached base at least once in 27 straight games, during which hes hit .377.For whatever reasons, hes able to come through in those spots more often than not, Indians pitcher Corey Kluber gushed of Ramirez after Sundays dramatics. I dont think theres anyone else wed rather have up in that situation.And theres nobody the Indians would rather have pitching on the road than Carrasco. Hes 5-3 away from home with a 1.97 ERA thats second-best in the AL (to Texas Cole Hamels 1.91) and third-best in all of baseball (Colorados Tyler Chatwood is No. 1 at 1.82) among pitchers who have made eight or more road starts.Carrasco has only one win to show for his last five starts, but its worth noting that four of those five games have been played at home.Hes allowed three or more runs just twice in nine road starts this season.Oakland fans already have gotten a taste for Carrascos road brilliance. He pitched a two-hit complete game in Oakland last July, winning 3-1.Its the only time hes pitched in Oakland. Hes 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA in three games, including two starts, against the As in his career.Carrasco also is scheduled to pitch Saturday in Texas, when the Indians (71-51) could find themselves battling the Rangers (73-52) for the best record in the AL.The Indians swept three straight from the As in an earlier series in Cleveland, dominating Oakland to the tune of 5-3, 6-3 and 8-0.Carrasco did not pitch in the series.Neither did Triggs, who will be making a fifth start in search of his first major-league.Hes is coming off the best of his first four starts, having held the Rangers to two hits and one run in 5 2/3 innings in a 5-4 loss last Tuesday.The 27-year-old has never faced the Indians. He takes an 0-1 record and 4.98 ERA to the mound, having pitched a total of 21 games this season.The As are coming off a 1-5 trip to Texas and Chicago, during which tempers flared on Friday after a 9-0 win over the White Sox.Billy Butler and Danny Valencia reportedly scuffled out of reporters view in the clubhouse. Butler was injured to the point where he did not play Saturday or Sunday.No comment, Valencia responded to the San Francisco Chronicle, which first reported the incident, after Sundays loss. What happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse.Valencia got two hits in Saturdays game, his sixth straight with multiple hits, before being given Sunday off. Cheap Air Max 270 All Blue .Y. -- Sabres forward Drew Stafford has witnessed plenty of turmoil during his eight seasons in Buffalo. Cheap Air Max 270 Pink . 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The Olympian from Corunna, Ont., jumped 2.36 metres to win bronze behind Essa Barshim of Qatar, who set a world-leading height at 2.40 metres. American Erik Kynard (2.36) was second. The previous Canadian mark was set by Mark Boswell of Brampton, Ont., who jumped 2.35 metres three times in his career, most recently in 2002. Drouin won bronze at the 2012 London Games. Meanwhile, Eugene Sheila Reid of Newmarket, Ont., set a personal best in the womens 1,500-metres with a time of four minutes 02.96 seconds, almost a full five seconds faster than her personal best going into the race. Reid finished sixth in the race. Cam Levins of Black Creek, B.C., finished 13th in the mens 5,000-metres in a personal best time of 13:15.19, just over two seconds off the Canadian record of 13:13.96 set in 1998 by Jeff Schiebler. Justin Gatlin won the 100 metres at the Diamond League meet in a wind-aided time of 9.88 seconds, besting fellow Americans Michael Rodgers and Ryan Bailey. The 31-year old, who won the bronze medal at the London Games, joked afterward: "I just age like wine." Then 17-year-old Mary Cain broke the high school record in the 800 in 1:59.51, placing fifth in an elite field that included Olympic bronze medallist Yekaterina Poistogova and Janeth Jepkosgei, third in last years world championships. Cain, from Bronxville High School in New York, topped the record of 2:02.04 set by Amy Weissenbach of Harvard-Westlake high in 2011. She also is the first American junior athlete to run the 800 under 2 minutes, breaking Kim Gallaghers mark junior of 2:00.07 in 1982. "Down that backstretch I think I was the most determined person out there," said Cain, who battled fellow American Alysia Montano to the finish. "I said to myself, Im going to break that two-minute barrier." Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi won the 800 in 1:56.72, a meet record and a world best this season. But the sellout crowd of 12,816 erupted into cheers when Cains record was announced. One fan shouted to the high school junior: "Come to Oregon!" "Im not really used to this. Im still a star-struck little kid out there, so its really cool," Cain said. Gatlin won the Olympic gold medal at the Athens Games but his promising career was derailed in 2006 by a positive drug test that led to a four-year ban. He has since worked hard to repair his past and was the defending champion at the Prefontaine, winning last year in 9.dddddddddddd9 in a tuneup for the U.S. Olympic trials. "I felt like I had a pretty good start, and I brought it home pretty good," Gatlin said. "Last year, my 20 metres before the finished line wasnt as strong as I wanted it to be. Thats what weve been working on." Gatlin took longer than any other athlete on his victory lap, stopping frequently to sign autographs and pose for pictures. In the womens 400, Olympic gold medallist Sanya-Richards Ross finished last in her first race since having surgery on her right big toe last September. The event featured all three medallists from the London Games, Richards-Ross, Christine Ohuruogu and DeeDee Trotter. "It was rough today," Richards-Ross said. "I realized I wasnt going to really push it as well as I wanted to." Armantle Montsho of Botswana won the 400 in 50.01 seconds. In other events, Hellen Obiri of Kenya won the womens 1,500 in 3:58.58, and Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba took the 5,000 in 14:42.01. Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price won the womens 100 in 10.71. American Allyson Felix fell to seventh. "I still have some work do," said Felix, who says shes working to get ready for the U.S. championships in Des Moines later this month. Beijing Olympic gold medallist LaShawn Merritt won the mens 400 in 44:32, and Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade ran the 200 in 20:14 to best Walter Dix in 20:16. "This is just my second 400 in nine months. But Im a competitor and I know every time I line up against that field Im going to have to run, so I wanted to put a race together," Merritt said. In the 5,000, Kenyan Edwin Cheruiyot Soi won in 13:04.75, just in front of Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah of Britain in 13:05.88. Farah, who won gold medals in both the 5,000 and 10,000 at the London Games, was supposed to run in the 10,000 at Hayward Field on Friday night but withdrew from the race a day earlier because of a stomach bug he picked up two weeks ago at a meet in California. He decided instead to run the 5,000 instead with training partner and friend Galen Rupp. Rupp, who won the silver in the 10,000 in London, came in sixth. Ethiopian Mohammed Aman won the mens 800 in 1:44.42. American Nick Symmonds, a local favourite who trains with the Oregon Track Club, finished third. Kenyan David Rushida, world record holder in the 800, had to withdraw from the Pre because of a right knee injury. Rushida had an MRI on Thursday in Eugene, revealing bruising of the bone and ligaments. ' ' '