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Somerset 95 (Barker 4-33) and 211 (Rogers 58, Patel 5-86) beat Warwickshire 123 (Westwood 34, Bess 6-28) and 152 (Clarke 55*, Wright 45, Leach 6-42) by 31 runsScorecard Jack Leach finished with 6 for 42 as Somerset completed a 31-run Specsavers County Championship victory over Warwickshire on the third morning at Taunton.Resuming on 131 for 8, needing a further 53 to win, the visitors battled for 14 overs before being bowled out for 152, Rikki Clarke ending unbeaten on 55.Lewis Gregory was the other wicket-taker as Somerset took 19 points to keep alive their hopes of a maiden Championship title. Warwickshire had to be content with three points and are not yet out of relegation danger with only one game remaining.The first half hour saw Clarke and Chris Wright carefully build on their ninth-wicket stand against the spin of Leach and Roelof van der Merwe.Clarke reached his half-century off 138 balls, with eight fours and a six, and the pair had reduced the deficit to 37, with the stand worth 86, when an inspired piece of captaincy by Chris Rogers brought the breakthrough.He introduced Gregory from the River End and, with his fourth delivery, the seamer had Wright caught behind for 45.I brought Lewis on because I felt the batsmen were getting into a rhythm against our spinners, Rogers said. I just had a bit of a feeling that a change of pace might cause problems.Such decisions often come down to luck and its nice when they go your way. It makes you look like you know what you are doing!When Clarke took a single off Leachs third ball of the 58th over, Somerset moved in for the kill, surrounding last man Josh Poysden with close fielders.The tail-ender got an inside edge and Marcus Trescothick ended the game with the 394th first class catch of his Somerset career, at leg-gully, breaking a club record set by Jack White, whose career ended in 1937.The wicket sparked jubilant celebrations on the pitch and the home side could celebrate an unlikely win after being bowled out for 95 on the first morning.It wasnt the sort of pitch I would want to spend my career batting on, Rogers added. Each ball behaved a bit differently and that creates questions in the minds of batsmen, which makes them tentative.But our spinners are bowling well and Id take the same sort of wicket in our final home game against Notts if it means winning the title!However, Warwickshires captain, Ian Bell, was more critical of the surface that Somerset had laid on.The pitch wasnt dangerous in any way so there was no cause for complaint, he said. The ECB want wickets that turn, but I dont think that sort of surface is great even for the development of spinners.It may bring them more wickets, but they will then find themselves bowling on slow low tracks if they step up to international level.As for Warwickshires prospects for the final throes of the season, Bell added: Its disappointing because we are now right in the mix at the wrong end of the table. The game summed up our Championship cricket this season because we were good in spells, but not consistent enough.We have a big final at Lords to look forward to so we cant afford to dwell on this defeat. But whatever happens we need to look at our four-day cricket because there have been problems stretching back to the end of last season. Theo Pinson Jersey . Ryan Garbutt had a goal and two assists as Dallas snapped a six-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. DAngelo Russell Jersey . After a lengthy wait, persistent rain finally forced the postponement of the Nationals game against the Miami Marlins on Saturday night. The teams, and a few thousand fans, waited nearly four hours from the 7:05 scheduled start time before an announcement was made shortly before 11 p. https://www.cheapnetsonline.com/ . Tuesdays surgery at Atlantas Piedmont Hospital was performed by Dr. Xavier Duralde and Hawks team physician Dr. Michael Bernot. 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Leyland met Verlander at the bottom of that other set of stairs, and that was that. The Tigers went on to a 7-5 win over the Cleveland Indians on Friday night in the opener of this three-game series. Verlander allowed three runs in seven innings, and Jose Valverde held on through a shaky ninth to give Detroit a 3 1/2-game lead over the Indians atop the AL Central. Victor Martinez homered and had three hits for the Tigers, and Torii Hunter added three hits of his own. Detroit led 5-0 before Cleveland scored three runs in the fifth off Verlander. That was all the Indians could manage against the Tigers ace in losing their fifth straight game. Verlander (8-4) allowed seven hits on the night. He walked two and struck out six. As for his little end-around of Leyland? The Detroit manager didnt sound pleased about it. "You might think that was comical, but I dont think that was comical at all," he said. Verlander seemed surprised that Leyland was upset. "I wasnt trying to play a joke on him. I just wanted to stay in the game," Verlander said. "He always stands there and sticks out his hand so I figured maybe if I snuck around him hed let me go back out there." Joaquin Benoit pitched the eighth for Detroit, and Jose Valverde came on with a four-run lead in the ninth. He allowed solo homers to Jason Giambi and Drew Stubbs, but Nick Swisher grounded out with a man on second to end it. "They were two split-fingers, and they just golfed them. That happens," Leyland said. "But the key to that was that he didnt walk anybody. Im happy with that." Ubaldo Jimenez (4-4) allowed five runs — three earned — in three-plus innings. Cleveland lost its ninth straight road game.dddddddddddd Detroit is trying for its third straight division title, and the Indians have emerged as the top early threat from the rest of the AL Central. Jimenez beat Verlander in Detroit on May 11, and Cleveland took two of three in that series. But the Tigers swept a two-game series in Cleveland later that month, the start of a stretch in which the Indians have lost 13 of 17. Martinez opened the scoring in the second with a solo homer to right, his fifth of the year. Detroit then managed two more runs without hitting the ball out of the infield. Jhonny Peralta walked and Brayan Pena grounded into a force play. Then Ramon Santiago hit a groundball to first, and Swisher tried to make a tough throw to second to get the lead runner. The ball got away for an error on Swisher, and Avisail Garcia walked to load the bases. After Andy Dirks struck out, Hunter hit an RBI single, and Miguel Cabrera walked to force in another run. "I felt great in the first inning, but it was gone in the second inning and I started trying to do too much to get someone out," Jimenez said. "It went the other way in a hurry." Garcia doubled to lead off the fourth and scored on a single by Dirks. Hunter singled to chase Jimenez, and Cabrera bounced into a double play, bringing another run home to make it 5-0. Verlander hasnt allowed fewer than three runs in any of his last six starts, but the damage was limited to the fifth inning Friday. Michael Bourn hit an RBI single, and Jason Kipnis drove in two more runs with a bases-loaded double that Hunter was unable to catch against the wall in right. Cleveland, which is without shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera (right quad strain), could get no closer. Swisher made another error in the fifth, which put men on first and third with nobody out. A double play grounder by Pena made it 6-3. Pena added an RBI single in the seventh. NOTES: Detroits Prince Fielder had his hitting streak snapped at 11 games. ... Hunter was hitless in his last 14 at-bats before starting Fridays game with a double and two singles. ... Detroits Rick Porcello (2-3) takes on Clevelands Justin Masterson (8-4) on Saturday. ' ' '