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BALTIMORE -- There was something fundamentally wrong with the Cleveland Indians performance in a 5-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles.A botched throw by catcher Roberto Perez enabled Pedro Alvarez to reach after a ninth-inning strikeout, and Nolan Reimold followed with a two-out homer to give the Orioles a three-game sweep of the AL Central leaders.Cleveland reliever Cody Allen (2-4) began the ninth by striking out Alvarez, but the ball eluded Perez. After fielding the bouncing ball off the backstop, Perez hit Alvarez in the helmet with the throw for an error.The Indians catchers often practice the throw to first after a dropped third strike, but Perez still evidently has some work to do.I dont think he rushed. He didnt move his feet, manager Terry Francona said. We talk to him about that all the time. You dont want somebody to learn a lesson the hard way, and he did.A sacrifice bunt and a strikeout followed before Reimold lined a 2-0 pitch into the left-field seats.I was taking the first pitch, trying to get comfortable, Reimold said. After that, I got up 2-0 and I was ready to hit. I figured he would try to throw a fastball there.Activated from the disabled list before the game, Darren ODay (7-1) struck out the side in the ninth.Cleveland lost the season series to AL East-leading Baltimore 5-1 after being outscored 15-6 in these three games at Camden Yards.Every time you go anywhere and get swept its not a good thing, second baseman Jason Kipnis said. This was a closer ballgame, more what we expected how we should be playing. We put up a battle there.Filling a void at the end of the Baltimore rotation, Vance Worley allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. Making his fourth start, the right-hander retired the final 11 batters he faced in his longest outing since September 2014, with Pittsburgh against Milwaukee.Worley left with a 3-2 lead, but All-Star reliever Brad Brach promptly allowed an unearned run in the eighth. After Jonathan Schoop fumbled a grounder to second base, Mike Napoli snapped an 0-for-11 skid with an RBI single.Cleveland starter Corey Kluber gave up three runs and six hits in seven innings. He struck out eight,The Indians went up 2-0 in the fourth on an RBI double by Tyler Naquin and a sacrifice fly by Perez, who earlier got his first hit in 17 at-bats this season.Baltimore tied it in the bottom half, courtesy of an overturned call following a challenge by the Orioles. After Manny Machado singled in a run, Alvarez hit into an apparent inning-ending double play with runners on the corners. But he earned an RBI after a replay review showed he was safe at first base.After hitting a double and scoring Baltimores first run in the fourth inning, Schoop delivered a solo shot in the fifth for a 3-2 lead. It was his career-high 17th home run, eclipsing the 16 he hit in 2014.BALL THREE, NOT FOURMachado was picked off first base in the eighth inning after Chris Davis took a pitch outside the strike zone, dropped his bat and headed from the batters box. Davis thought it was ball four, but the count actually moved to 3-2. Machado was swayed by his teammates action and strayed off the base before being thrown out by Perez.TRAINERS ROOMIndians: 3B Juan Uribe returned to the starting lineup for the first time since being hit in the head with a pitch on Friday night.Orioles: OF Hyun Soo Kim (hamstring) began a two-day rehabilitative assignment with Double-A Bowie. If all goes well, he will be activated from the DL on Tuesday. ... 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Its New South Wales-centric schedule has been a source of considerable angst among other teams since the tournament was moved to an early season carnival format three years ago, but a smattering of matches in Perth and Brisbane this year mean the Blues will not be the only team playing at home.Last seasons competition was affected by the cancellation of Australias Bangladesh tour for security reasons, meaning it was contested by full strength teams across all six states. This time around the scenario is rather different: not only is the Australian ODI team on tour in South Africa, but numerous bowlers, notably Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, are absent injured or resting.This means a knock-on effect for numerous states, most notably South Australia. The reward for emergent displays in both the Matador Cup and the Sheffield Shield last year mean than no fewer than four first-choice Redbacks - Travis Head, Adam Zampa, Daniel Worrall and Joe Mennie - are in South Africa. The coach Jamie Siddons has acknowledged the challenge ahead.We feel ready despite missing bowlers from last years attack and its going to be difficult without them, Siddons said. But we have a couple of young guys that have some tricks in their repertoire. Its not going to be easy or the same, we have to find another way of doing it with different types of players and were ready and aiming for similar success.I think its really exciting watching the young guys play and the next step is to promote a few more of them like Jake Lehmann, Jake Weatherald, Alex Ross and Alex Carey - who are all really good chances of pushing their names forward now. Our aim is to be successful again and win games and if those guys step up like I think they will we should match last year - maybe were looking at batsmen to step up instead of the bowlers this time.Victoria are another state needing to reach deeper into their squad for bowlers in particular, with John Hastings, Scott Boland and Chris Tremain in South Africa and Peter Siddle and James Pattinson still working their way back from injury. The new coach Andrew McDonald, only recently returned from Leicestershire to replace David Saker, must also work with Glennn Maxwell in the aftermath of the enigmatic allrounders ill-timed bid to move to NSW for the summer.ddddddddddddMcDonalds old Bushrangers team-mate Brad Hodge has s still more vexing task as the mentor of the Cricket Australia XI, a youthful hodgepodge (no pun intended) of players from across the states who did not make it into the first-choice squads. This is the second of a two-year experiment with the XI, designed to provide additional opportunities for young players against the best of domestic players.The concept has not been universally loved, even if the CA XI recovered last season from a horrid start to win a game over Tasmania and produce a handful of players - Hilton Cartwright, Mitch Swepson, Jimmy Peirson - able to progress further over the course of the season that followed. Many among the states feel the team is emblematic of CAs desire for central developmental control, rather than simply building the most competitive tournament possible. A lack of any senior players to leaven out the youth, even with the likes of Ben Rohrer, Chris Hartley and Chadd Sayers available, has only heightened that impression.Justin Langer, coach of Western Australia, spoke for many of the tension between development and competition. The Sheffield Shield too has been subject to numerous stratagems designed to help the Australian team overall, but experiments like pink ball matches and the use of Dukes balls for a portion of the shield this season has left Langer and others questioning their wisdom.We make Cricket Australia very aware that we have to keep the integrity of the game, he said. We have the best domestic competition in the world, but it is frustrating at times. This season we will play two pink-ball games, three with red Kookaburras and five with Dukes balls and hopefully six with the Dukes. I like consistency.Consistent or not, the Matador will afford many players the chance to either secure their state spots at the outset of the season, or put their names in lights for Australian selection into the future. Whether in Perth, Brisbane or Sydney, many a selection question will get closer to being answered. ' ' '