CLEVELAND, Ohio — Indians manager Manny Acta prefers to live in the moment. Or at least the moment of his choosing.

The Indians lost for the seventh time in the past 10 games Friday night at Progressive Field. The 11-2 loss to Texas was accomplished in the style that suggests that the fortunes of the first-place Indians are not as bright as they were in early May, but Acta doesn't see it that way.

"I feel good where we are right now," he said. "We've won two of the last four games. We're .500, not bad. I know you probably see it that we've won only two out of seven or something like that, but I don't go that far back.

"We just won two good ballgames in Toronto, lost two here. We're the only team in out division playing at least .500 on the road. We're going through a rough spot, but I'm thankful that we still haven't gone through one of those long stretches like everyone else has."

Justin Masterson (5-4, 3.28) entered the seventh trailing the Rangers, 2-1. He retired Endy Chavez, but Ian Kinsler walked and Elvis Andrus doubled. Acta called for lefty Tony Sipp to face Josh Hamilton and the game took a dramatic turn.

Sipp, who had allowed one hit in 28 at-bats to a left-hander before facing last year's AL MVP, watched Hamilton drive his 0-2 pitch over the top of the Rangers bullpen in right field for a three-run homer and a 5-1 lead. That should have been the end of it. Michael Young flied out to right for the second out and Adrian Beltre sent another fly ball to right center.

But Michael Brantley and Shin-Soo Choo lost Beltre's ball in the twilight and it fell for a double. Nelson Cruz followed with a first-pitch two-run homer to make it 7-1.

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"Lately we've been giving up too many two-strike hits . . . some on 0-2 counts," said Acta. "They made us pay for that. We have to go back to throw quality strikes at the knees and stop throwing those waist-high strikes that are showing on the scoreboard."

Chad Durbin started the eighth and the Texas feeding frenzy escalated. Mike Napoli doubled, Chavez singled and Kinsler walked to load the bases. Andrus cleared them with a three-run double to left to make it 10-1.

Andrus, perhaps letting Cleveland fans know that there's another shortstop that should be going to the All-Star game besides Asdrubal Cabrera, went 4-for-5 with two runs, three RBI and a stolen base.

The Indians have lost 14 of their last 17 games against the Rangers. In the first two games of the series, the Rangers have scored 18 runs on 31 hits.

The Rangers nicked starter Masterson for seven hits in the first three innings, but could manage only two runs. They took a 1-0 lead in the second on Chavez's double to right field with two out. Mitch Moreland, who started the rally with a single, scored, but Napoli, who tried to score from second, was called out at the plate as Carlos Santana applied the tag.

Replays showed Napoli was safe as Santana tagged him on the chest.

Texas made it 2-0 in the third. Andrus and Hamilton singled with one out to put runners on first and third. Young ran his way out of a double play on a grounder to second to score Andrus.

"None of those hits scared me," said Masterson.

Masterson allowed four runs on 10 hits in 61/3 innings. After winning his first five starts of the season, Masterson is 0-4 with a 4.05 ERA in his last seven starts.

The Indians finally scratched out a run against undefeated right-hander Alex Ogando (6-0, 2.20) in the sixth. Brantley and Asdrubal Cabrera opened with singles to put runners on first and third. Brantley scored when Choo hit into a double play at second base.

Ogando allowed one run on four hits in eight innings. He struck out seven and walked one in 100 pitches. He has pitched at least six innings in his first 11 starts in the big leagues this year.

"He overpowered us," said Acta. "We couldn't do anything against him."

Asdrubal Cabrera closed out the Indians scoring with a leadoff homer in the ninth off Yoshinori Tateyama.

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