CHICAGO (AP) — Corey Kluber spread the credit for his first 20-win season Aaron Nola Jersey , and admitted it’s “a nice, round number.”Kluber struck out 11 in seven scoreless innings and won his 20th, and Brandon Guyer hit a go-ahead solo homer in the seventh inning as the Cleveland Indians shut out the Chicago White Sox 4-0 on Monday night.Kluber (20-7) hit 20 victories for the first time after recording 18 wins in three of the four previous seasons. The reigning Cy Young award winner is the first 20-game winner for the Central Division champions since Cliff Lee went 22-3 in 2008, and the first Indians pitcher to win 20 games with 200 or more strikeouts since Gaylord Perry did it in 1974.“Twenty wins is cool. It’s a nice, round number, but as long as we won the game that’s obviously the angle,” Kluber said.“It’s a cool accomplishment, something to be proud of, but I think it just means I gave us a chance to win a lot of times. There’s times when they probably picked me up and I got credited with a win. We’re all pulling for each other to get to those numbers that mean something.”Kluber may have downplayed the significance of 20 wins, but his teammates and manager didn’t.“We were all nervous for him. He probably wasn’t, but we were because it probably meant more to us than it did to him,” Indians manager Terry Francona.Cleveland is also the first team to have four pitchers with 200 strikeouts in a season. Kluber ran his total to 216, while Carlos Carrasco has 217, Trevor Bauer 215 and Mike Clevinger 202.The Indians tied the Chicago Cubs for the major league lead with 17 shutouts.Adam Rosales gave the Indians an insurance run with a home run off reliever Nate Jones to left for his first of the season in the ninth inning. Brandon Barnes and Edwin Encarnacion then added RBI singles. It was Rosales’ first home run since Sept. 4, 2017, when he was with Arizona.Indians relievers Andrew Miller and Cody Allen pitched a perfect eighth and ninth, respectively, and combined with Kluber to retire the final 17 batters.Dylan Covey didn’t allow a run over six innings. He scattered six hits and struck out seven with one walk in the no-decision. He has pitched 12 consecutive innings without allowing a run against Cleveland.“Kind of a different lineup today than it was last time. Some of those guys hadn’t seen me. But, yeah Juan Samuel Jersey , definitely a big confident booster for me. I’ve known all year that I have had this stuff, just been trying to find that consistency with it,” said Covey.Covey was relieved by Ian Hamilton (0-2) after throwing 96 pitches over six innings. Guyer greeted Hamilton in the seventh by hitting his third pitch into the left-field seats for his seventh home run of the season.The White Sox threatened in the second inning. They had runners on first and third with one out, but Kluber finished the inning by getting Tim Anderson and Jose Rondon swinging.“He’s a Cy Young-type pitcher. With guys like that, when you have certain opportunities, and you don’t get many, you got to be able to get at least one point across and hopefully your guy is able to contain them on the offensive side,” said White Sox manager Rick Renteria.Kluber struck out the side in the third inning and then posted his seventh double-digit strikeout game of the season when he got Daniel Palka swinging to end the fifth.“For the most part, I had pretty good command of my pitches. I don’t think there was one that really stood out. It was just being able to throw all four pitches and mix them in the right spots and keep them off balance,” Kluber said.Kluber has struck out 10 or more batters in three of his last four starts and retired his final 11 batters.PLAYOFF PICTUREThe Boston Red Sox clinched home-field advantage through the postseason with a 6-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night. That means Cleveland will open the Division Series at the AL West winner.IMMEDIATE IMPACT?White Sox first round pick Nick Madrigal threw out the first pitch. Madrigal, who was selected fourth overall in the 2018 draft from Oregon State, may be on the fast track to join the White Sox. “It’s kind of out of my control at this point. Whatever the organization needs me to do, but I can definitely see this being a home for me hopefully sometime soon,” said Madrigal. He hit .303 with seven doubles and 16 RBIs between the Arizona League, Class-A Winston Salem and Class-A Kannapolis.TRAINER’S ROOMIndians: C Roberto Perez wasn’t in the lineup after leaving Sunday night’s win over Boston with a bruised right shoulder. Francona said there were no lingering concerns. “He could’ve stayed in the game if we needed him to.”White Sox: 1B Jose Abreu remains out with a right thigh injury. His status to return this season is uncertain. … 2B Yoan Moncada had the night off.UP NEXTIndians: Francona said RHP Trevor Bauer won’t throw more than 60 to 65 pitches in Tuesday’s scheduled start, his second after missing 35 games with a stress fracture in his lower right leg. Bauer’s performance Tuesday, Francona added, will determine whether he starts Sunday’s season finale at Kansas City.White Sox: RHP James Shields (7-16) is scheduled to make his 33rd start of the season on Tuesday. He is 2-1 with a 3.86 ERA in his last five starts. Attend the tale of Mitchell Garv, whose mitt is strong but his numbers odd..."editor’s note: Please welcome one of our long-time community members http://www.philliesfanproshop.com/authentic-pat-neshek-jersey , TeamCrazyMatt, to the front page!In 2017, a promising young catcher named Mitch Garver was called up to the Minnesota Twins. Playing in only 23 games over the course of the season, Garver batted just .196 with a .288 OBP, but somehow managed to turn three of his nine hits into triples.Come 2018, Garver opened in camp with the Twins as the backup catcher, but was elevated to a starting role after Jason Castro was lost to injury for the season. In 102 games he showed marked improvement, particularly on offense, batting .268 (.335 OBP) with seven home runs, and has positioned himself as a candidate, if not the favorite, for the starting job in 2019 despite Castro’s return.While this is an impressive story on its own merits for a former ninth-round draft pick, Garver’s tenure with the Twins will offer a strange curiosity at the start of this season: in each of his years in Minnesota, Mitch Garver has worn a different uniform number.Now, it’s of course not unusual for players to change numbers, even after a couple seasons: ex-Twin Danny Valencia switched to 22 after a pair of seasons wearing 19, and Red Sox center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. changed to 19 after four years donning No. 25 on his back. But Garver’s changes - three numbers in three seasons - is fascinating.2017: No. 43Like all young players, Garver had to work his way towards the lower range of uniform numbers. In 2016’s spring training, Garver wore No. 82 before receiving 43 Robin Roberts Jersey , a number that has rarely been worn by a Twin, the following February. When recalled from AAA-Rochester in August, Garver kept that number, becoming the second straight backup catcher to wear 43 for Minnesota. The previous owner, Josmil Pinto, had last played in Target Field in 2014; before Pinto, no Twin had sported the number 43 on his back for 50 years. (The player in question: pitcher Don Williams, who appeared in three games for Minnesota in 1963 and recorded a 10.38 ERA.)But Garver’s tenure in those digits would be a short one: in January 2018, the Twins signed Addison Reed, who has worn No. 43 for his entire MLB career. Garver ceded the number to Reed and selected a new one:2018: No. 23Backup infielder and September call-up Niko Goodrum had worn 23 in 2017, but with his departure, the number became available for Garver. (Two notes. First, Goodrum has since found success as a Detroit Tiger, which is wonderful for him but unfortunate for Twins fans. Second, in 2017 training camp, a Red Sox announcer called Goodrum’s entire at-bat thinking he was Nick Gordon, who was on deck, and didn’t realize the mistake until the real Gordon came up; I cannot find the video anywhere, which is supremely disappointing.) In the history of Minnesota (and pre-1961 Washington) baseball Tug McGraw Jersey , 23 has been a far more popular number than 43, with 40 players donning the former number and eight the latter. In fact, Goodrum was the second player to wear a Minnesota uniform with No. 23 on the back in 2017, following the sole 1.2-inning start of Nick Tepesch. And history has shown that most players who wore this number for the franchise have not done so for a lengthy period of time; the longest run of a single Twin wearing 23 was pitcher Dave Boswell from 1964 to 1970.Perhaps it is then fitting that Garver once again surrendered his uniform number, this time to Nelson Cruz. Instead, when he takes the field this spring, Garver will be wearing...2019: No. 18The third number on Garver’s back (not counting that 82 from spring ‘16) is also the most popular in Minnesota, with 48 players in franchise history sporting these digits. The longest-tenured is also the most well-known by fans: former closer and bullpen coach Eddie Guardado, who sported No. 18 from 1993 to 2003, again in 2008 for another brief stint with the team, and again when on the Twins’ coaching staff. The last person to wear the number in Minnesota as a player is Ryan Doumit, like Garver, a catcher. Doumit, however, did not wear 18 for his entire time in Minnesota, but only for the 2012 season, after which he halved it and donned No. 9 for the team in 2013.Hmm... perhaps Garver’s constant digit-swapping was foreshadowed all along.