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CLEVELAND -- Theyre alive, barely, but it beats the alternative. The Indians playoff hopes are fragile, and theyre doing all they can to keep them from shattering. Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer, Michael Brantley got three more hits and Cleveland stayed in the AL wild-card chase for at least one more day with a 6-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. A loss would have eliminated the Indians, but after blowing a 3-0 lead, they rallied and moved within 3 1/2 games of Kansas City and Oakland in the wild-card standings. There are four days left in the regular season. "We said all year long as long as we have life, were going to keep battling and thats exactly what we did tonight," outfielder David Murphy said. "Weve had some good moments. Weve had some bad moments this season, but hopefully were going to be going into the last series of the season still alive." The Royals, who havent made the playoffs since 1985, fell two games behind first-place Detroit in the AL Central. Zach McAllister (4-7) pitched 2 1-3 scoreless innings and Cody Allen worked the ninth for his 23rd save as the Indians kept their season relevant. Theyre off on Thursday, but the Indians will closely monitor Kansas Citys game in Chicago and Oaklands visit to Texas. "It has all to do whether or not we have life coming into Friday," Murphy said, "so regardless were going to come ready to play, but hopefully were going to be playing for something." Brantley has hit safely in 15 straight games and needs one more hit to be the first Indians player with 200 in a season since Kenny Lofton in 1996. The Indians took the lead in the fifth off rookie Brandon Finnegan (0-1) on Carlos Santanas RBI groundout. Cleveland added a run in the sixth on Murphys pinch sacrifice fly. Cleveland entered the unusual series -- the teams completed a suspended game on Monday -- 3 1/2 games behind the Royals and the Indians ended in the same place. Unfortunately for them, they wasted a chance to pull closer and now have to win their final three games and hope for help from other teams to play in the post-season. Billy Butler had three RBIs for Kansas City, which can lock up one of the two wild cards by winning one of four games in Chicago against the White Sox starting Thursday. "I know things are close, were close," Butler said. "Weve got four games left. If we could do it right now, wed be in a playoff spot. You cant help but realize that its right around the corner, but you have to keep grinding and keep your head down." Their flimsy playoff hopes fading, the Indians scored twice in the fifth to take a 5-4 lead. Jason Vargas hit Michael Bourn with a pitch to open the inning and Royals manager Ned Yost pulled the left-hander, who has just one win in his last seven starts. Jose Ramirez doubled off the wall and the speedy Bourn, waved around by third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh, scored the tying run on a headfirst dive into the plate, reaching in with his left hand to avoid catcher Salvador Perezs tag. "When you see a guy dive into home like that you realize nobodys playing out the string," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "He was pretty fired up." Gomes two-out shot, his 21st homer, to straightaway centre gave the Indians a 3-0 lead in the first. WALK THIS WAY Santana walked three times, giving him 112 this season, the sixth most in club history. Santana has walked more than any major league switch-hitter since Lance Berkman (127) for Houston in 2002. NO RELIEF Indians reliever Bryan Shaw tied the club record with his 79th appearance, matching the mark set by Bobby Howry in 2005. 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Fake Nike Air Max 270 .Y. - Terry and Kim Pegula have no immediate plans to tinker with their new NFL team.LONDON - English Premier League games will be played on Friday nights from the 2016-17 season, emulating German, Spanish and French competitions.The new slot was included in the bidding documents for the 2016-19 television rights, issued on Friday to British broadcasters, who can show only 168 of the 380 games live.There are seven packages of rights, five with 28 games and two with 14 games. The existing Monday night package will add up to ten Friday night games each season, potentially giving Champions League participants longer to prepare for European matches.Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho earlier this year called on the football authorities to change the fixture schedule to accommodate European commitments.If we played on Friday night, @ 7:45, it makes a difference to who? Less spectators ... I dont think so, Mourinho said. Itd be a full house, the same. And for television? It wouldnt make a difference. If it was the only match on TV, the (audience) share would be fantastic.Would it be good for Chelsea? Yes. Would it be good for English football? Yes.There have been occasional Friday night Premier League games, but it has never been a regular slot for broadcasters. This year Boxing Day — Dec. 26 — falls on a Friday when a full program of matches is scheduled.The auctionn is set to make clubs in the wealthiest domestic soccer competition even richer.dddddddddddd In the auction for the 2013-2016 rights, the league received around 5.5 billion pounds ($8.6 billion) for the television rights, with just over 3 billion pounds ($4.7 billion) coming from Sky and BT to show 154 live games in total each season domestically.Sky has held most of the domestic rights since the Premier Leagues inception in 1992, helping Rupert Murdochs operation become the dominant pay TV broadcaster in Britain.The league is yet to open the bidding for foreign broadcasters, who can show all 380 games each season live.The domestic auction has started despite Britains broadcasting watchdog currently investigating a complaint from Virgin Media, which is owned by U.S. cable TV operator Liberty Global, that only 41 per cent of matches are shown live in Britain.The new auction is making 44 per cent of games available in Britain, although a single broadcaster can only buy 126 of the 168 matches.Most games are played on Saturdays at 3 p.m. and still wont be shown live in Britain to encourage attendances and participation at all levels of the sport at the traditional time, the league said in a statement.___Rob Harris can be followed at www.twitter.com/RobHarris ' ' '