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CLEVELAND -- Carlos Carrasco needed to be nearly perfect against Stephen Strasburg. Michael Cage Jersey .One badly flawed inning doomed him and the Indians.Carrasco walked three Washington hitters in the second inning, when Clevelands infield also failed to turn a double play, and the Indians couldnt get anything going against Strasburg in a 4-1 loss to the Nationals on Wednesday.The Indians managed just three hits and were shut out over seven innings by Strasburg (14-1), the Nationals $175 million man who began the season with 13 straight wins before he was beaten by the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 21.Facing one of the games top pitchers, Carrasco (7-4) may have been a little overhyped and his wildness in the second cost him as the Nationals scored two runs -- all Strasburg would need. Carrasco needed 38 pitches to get out of the second.Kind of lost my control, Carrasco said. Not too much damage, only two runs, thought it was going to be more, but I held them to two. I thought that I lost my control a little bit. Thats not good.Washington rookie Trea Turner drove in three runs and Daniel Murphy hit his 20th homer off Carrasco, who allowed three runs and three hits in six innings. The right-hander was good. Strasburg was just a little better.Carrasco walked the first two batters in the second before getting Ryan Zimmerman to hit a hard grounder to shortstop Francisco Lindor. It should have been a routine double play, but second baseman Jason Kipnis dropped the ball while transferring it from his glove to his hand and the Nationals had runners at the corners. With two outs, Ben Revere battled Carrasco for 13 pitches before walking and Turner made Carrasco pay by lining a two-run single to left.Strasburg took it from there.I thought coming out of the shoot he had really good stuff, Indians manager Terry Francona said of Carrasco. I think he was a little excited having to pitch against Strasburg, not that he has to hit against him, but its nice to see if you can match up. He had a little extra and it looked like it. In the inning, where I think he threw almost 40 pitches, it was a combination of falling behind, we didnt complete the double play and Revere had an unbelievable at-bat.The Indians rallied for a run in the ninth and had two runners on but Blake Treinen got Roberto Perez to hit into a game-ending double play for his first major league save.Strasburg walked one and struck out seven. He was never in real trouble and on the two occasions the Indians got a runner to third, Strasburg got the out he needed.Jose Ramirez, who had two hits and reached base all three times up against Strasburg, was on third in the second when Strasburg struck out Rajai Davis to end the inning, blowing him away with a 97 mph fastball.Ramirez got to third again with two outs in the fourth after third baseman Anthony Rendons throwing error. This time, Strasburg retired Davis on a slow roller to third.He has a lot of weapons, Francona said. He can throw the ball by you, fastball on both sides of the plate. He has a slider, change. Hes got everything and his fastball has a ton of ride or finish, however you want to put it. His delivery. Its impressive.RED-HOT ROOKIEIndians rookie Tyler Naquin went 2 for 3 and drove in Clevelands only run. He leads all AL rookies with a .330 average.HOME SWEET HOMEAfter being on the road most of July due to Cleveland hosting the Republican National Convention, the Indians will play 18 of their next 23 at Progressive Field. They have more home games (37) the rest if the way than any team in the majors.TRAINERS ROOMIndians: RHP Zach McAllister, who has been on the disabled list since July 7 with a sore right hip, will make a rehab appearance on Thursday at Double-A Akron before the club decides whether to activate him. McAllisters status could change if the Indians make a trade before the deadline for bullpen help.UP NEXTIndians: Several current and former players, along with manager Terry Francona, will golf in a charity outing before starting a three-game series on Friday against the Oakland Athletics. RHP Trevor Bauer (7-4) will start the opener against As right-hander Kendall Graveman (7-6).Nationals: Washington flies to the West Coast to open a four-game series in San Francisco. Tanner Roark (9-6) will pitch the opener against Giants ace Johnny Cueto (13-2). Brent Barry Jersey . There are surprises among the Vezina candidates, but most of the others are standard top-tier performers, even if the two Hart Trophy runners-ups have never been quite as good as they have been through the first half of the season. Pete Cross Jersey . Its sharpness matched my mind. This was no night to go to sleep. https://www.cheapthunder.com/1531h-abdel...ey-thunder.html . LOUIS -- St. AMES, Iowa -- The focus for Matt Campbell in his first season at Iowa State was about stability more than victories.The Cyclones didnt win much this season. But there were plenty of signs that they might start winning more as soon as 2017.Iowa State (3-9, 2-7) finished the year with a 30-point home loss to West Virginia , a game that got away from the Cyclones in the second half. But Iowa States improvement from September to November was impressive enough for its long-suffering fans to feel some sense of hope heading into next season.Weve made incredible progress from when we came in here to where were at. Those things about records and scores are all -- again, I get it. Thats what were measured by. But the reality for me is where we were and where were at. Campbell said. I saw us get better week in and week out.After just two games, it looked like the Cyclones might not win a game at all. A home loss to FCS school Northern Iowa was followed by a brutal 42-3 defeat at Iowa, the worst result in a long history of bad results for the Cyclones in that series.Iowa State finally broke through with a win over San Jose State, revealing something about both Campbell and the Cyclones. Campbell played two quarterbacks extensively in Joel Lanning and Jacob Park, defying the long-standing logic that a team with two quarterbacks is a team in trouble.Park emerged as the primary signal-caller. Lanning shifted from a starter to a run-first backup, and instead of dividing the Cyclones it made them better and the team backed their young coach.Behind Parrk and Lanning, Iowa State scored more average points (29. Darius Bazley Jersey. 4) in Big 12 games than it ever had, even if the wins were scarce. Still, the Cyclones beat Kansas and Texas Tech before the loss to the Mountaineers.The reality for this team is (that) some of the foundations weve laid of attitude, effort, playing hard all the time, consistency of those things are really important to me. Because I know that without that, youre building a program on falsehoods, Campbell said.Park, Lanning, 1,00-yard receiver Allen Lazard and running backs David Montgomery, Mike Warren and Kene Nwangwu all return next season, as does much of a talented secondary. Campbell has also recruited well, with a 2017 class set to be the best the program has had in recent memory.Iowa State will lose six starters from a defense that allowed 31 points a game. But with 10 underclassmen listed on the depth chart for the finale, help should be on the way.The offensive and defensive lines will need work. A bowl game in 2017 isnt out of question, though, and that would bring the once-downtrodden Cyclones one step closer to fulfilling Campbells bold proclamation after losing to the Mountaineers.At the end of this, were going to win a championship in the Big 12, Campbell said. I look forward to it. The best is yet to come.---More college football at www.collegefootball.ap.org---Follow Luke Meredith on Twitter at www.twitter.com/LukeMeredithAP ' ' '