TORONTO -- Trevor Bauer and his drone were ready to explain themselves.The Cleveland right-hander kept the mood light at his news conference Sunday, showing up with the drone he said cut his finger and forced him to miss his start in Game 2 of the AL Championship Series. Bauer is scheduled to pitch Game 3 on Monday night against Toronto, with the Indians leading the series 2-0.I brought my friend to answer any questions about what happened that I cant answer, Bauer said while the drone sat on display on the table in front of him.Bauer received stitches on his right pinkie after the accident Thursday night, and both he and manager Terry Francona now say they dont expect the injury to affect him much when he faces the Blue Jays. Josh Tomlin started in Bauers place Saturday and Cleveland won , which no doubt made it easier for the Indians to chuckle a bit about the mishap.He was messing around with his drone. He wasnt out in some alley at 3 in the morning and got cut on a beer can, Francona said. It wasnt like he was waterskiing. He just cut his finger. It wasnt remotely malicious.Bauer, a self-described nerd and big Star Wars fan who studied mechanical engineering in college, said he became interested in drones after seeing a video of them a few years ago. He said he likes to learn new tricks and fly them close to obstacles, which can lead to crashes. He is constantly having to repair his drones.Bauer said he cut his finger on a propeller.I plugged it in, like Ive done thousands and thousands of times. ... This one spun up at max throttle, he said. It never happened to me before. I have no idea why it happened, and my finger just happened to be in the way of the prop and it cut me.Bauers injury was another setback for a Cleveland rotation that lost Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar toward the end of the regular season. The Indians have kept winning anyway. The AL Central champions swept Boston in the Division Series and have taken the first two games from Toronto.The Blue Jays will send Marcus Stroman to the mound Monday, but the bigger issue for them right now is their hitting . Toronto has scored only one run in the ALCS so far, failing to break through against Clevelands starters and looking overmatched against the Indians Andrew Miller-led bullpen.All youve got to do is go look at video and try to count how many times theyve thrown pitches over the heart of the plate, Toronto slugger Jose Bautista said. It hasnt been many.Miller has thrown 3 2/3 scoreless innings in this series, striking out five in each of the first two games. He became the first pitcher with two separate postseason outings of at least five strikeouts in no more than two innings, according to information provided by the Indians from the Elias Sports Bureau.If hes on, theres not a lot you can do with him, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. Hes got an overpowering fastball, and hes got that incredible slider.Bautista said Miller now seems to be throwing his slider a couple different ways, and the 6-foot-7 left-hander didnt dispute that.I throw it pretty differently and not always intentionally, Miller said. When you throw it backdoor, I want as much horizontal break (as I can). I want the ball to start as far off the plate and come back and catch the corner. In certain counts, if Im trying to get a swing and miss, I want more depth.The Blue Jays can take some solace in the schedule, which now calls for three games in three days. That might prevent Francona from being quite as aggressive with Miller in relief, although Toronto has to avoid a sweep for all three of those games to be played.If the Blue Jays stay quiet offensively, it could be a short series.Its a slugging team, thats how theyre built, Gibbons said. 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John Lucas, signed as a mentor for rookie Trey Burke, showed he can score if required, scoring 12 points of his 16 points in the second quarter as Utah built an 18-point lead.DETROIT -- Batting leadoff because of an injury to Austin Jackson, Detroits Andy Dirks hit a drive to centre field for a double in his first at-bat. Three innings later, the 27-year-old outfielder made an even better impression. Dirks hit his first career grand slam, part of a six-run fourth for the Tigers in their 7-2 victory over the Houston Astros on Monday night. He was at the top of the lineup because Jackson went on the disabled list earlier in the day with a pulled left hamstring. "Ive hit leadoff in college and Ive hit leadoff in the big leagues and in the minor leagues," Dirks said. "Its really nothing different. The way I approach it, I just try to get on base for the big guys." In the fourth, Dirks came to the plate in a good RBI situation -- bases loaded and one out. He drove an 0-2 pitch to right field for his fourth homer of the year. Houston starter Bud Norris said it was a hanging slider. "It was the worst 0-2 pitch of my career," he lamented. The pitch looked just fine to Dirks. "I liked it," he said. "Its just one of those things in baseball. He didnt mean to leave a pitch over the plate like that, and I was fortunate enough to be on time with it and hit it." Victor Martinez also homered for the Tigers, who swept four straight from the Astros in Houston earlier this month and opened this three-game series at Comerica Park with another convincing victory. Anibal Sanchez (4-3) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings for Detroit. He struck out eight with one walk. "I feel good," Sanchez said. "My pitches were working good today. I just had a bad inning. Thats part of the game." 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Altuve left the game after colliding with Paredes, but Houston scored a couple of runs in the third to take the lead. Marwin Gonzalez singled and stole second, then scored on a single by Robbie Grossman. Ronny Cedeno, who came into the game when Altuve left, added an RBI groundout. But Norris, who has pitched well so far amid Houstons struggles, couldnt hold onto the lead, and his start was cut short by back problems. He left the game after a conference at the mound at the start of the Detroit sixth. Martinezs homer was his second of the year after he missed all of 2012 with a knee injury. The Tigers have outscored Houston 44-10 in five games this year. NOTES: Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera had his hitting streak snapped at 11 games. ... Tigers RHP Doug Fister (4-1) takes the mound Tuesday night against Houston RHP Lucas Harrell (3-3). ' ' '