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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Cleveland Indians right-hander Josh Tomlin has gone from unbeatable at the start of the season to winless in August.And that potent Indians offense is suddenly struggling to score runs.Tomlin allowed two three-run homers, the first to Carlos Gomez making his debut for the AL-best Texas Rangers, and gave up eight runs without making it out of the fifth inning as the Indians lost 9-0 in the opener of a four-game series matching division leaders Thursday night.My job is to give us a chance to win, and right now Im not doing my job, said Tomlin, 0-5 with a 10.80 ERA in his five August starts.While Tomlin (11-8) failed to get past the fifth inning for the fourth time this month, the Indians managed only two singles in eight innings against left-hander Cole Hamels (14-4), who struck out eight without a walk.We havent swung the bat the last four games, but I think were third in the league in runs, manager Terry Francona said. Its not realistic that youre going to hit the ball out of the ballpark all year. It happens. Just got to fight through it together. We will.Cleveland (72-54) was shut out for the fourth time this season, and that came after the AL Central leader had been held to exactly one run in each of its three games at Oakland earlier this week -- the opener of that series being a 1-0 victory.You keep working, second baseman Jason Kipnis said. I wouldnt be surprised if we come out of it here soon.Hamels retired 19 batters in a row after Francisco Lindors solid two-out single to left in the first. The only other baserunner for the Indians against the lefty was Carlos Santana after a leadoff single in the eighth, though he was stranded at second after advancing on a passed ball.Had all pitches, all locations in play. Had the swing and miss, Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. He had the ability to do what he wanted to.After Gomezs homer in the second, Adrian Beltre and Rougned Odor also homered for the Rangers (75-53), who matched their largest winning margin of the season.Tomlin is scheduled to start once more before the calendar turns to September, next week at home against Minnesota. The right-handed Texas native was 7-0 through eight starts and 9-1 at the end of June, but now hasnt won since July 30.He was crisp, Francona said. He made a bad pitch to Gomez, and unfortunately its three (runs).LOFTY MARKSHamels is 21-5 in his 38 starts since the Rangers acquired him last season when he was coming off a no-hitter in his last start for the Philadelphia Phillies. His eight innings Thursday were the longest scoreless outing for a Texas starter this season.SHORT HOPSIndians 1B Mike Napoli had two errors in the fifth, one throwing and one fielding. ... Tony Barnette pitched a scoreless ninth, after giving up a leadoff walk, to wrap up only the third shutout this season for Texas. ... The Rangers had eight hits, one each by eight different players. The only starter without a hit was Carlos Beltran, who is in an 0-for-28 slide.FRESH STARTGomez made his Rangers debut five days after signing a minor league deal with the team and playing three games at Triple-A Round Rock. The 30-year-old two-time All-Star outfielder hit .210 with five homers in 85 games this season with the Houston Astros before being designated for assignment and then last week given his unconditional release.TRAINERS ROOMIndians: Instead of activating reliever Tommy Hunter from the disabled list next week as planned, the Indians released the right-hander who has been out since the All-Star break with after a back issue.UP NEXTIndians: All-Star RHP Corey Kluber (13-8), the 2014 AL Cy Young winner, is 5-0 with a 1.78 ERA his last eight starts.Rangers: LHP Martin Perez (8-9) is 7-1 with a 2.36 ERA in 13 home starts this season. RIO DE JANEIRO -- The screen at the fabulous Beach Volleyball Arena shows many match statistics, including the number of aces, blocks and digs, plus top serve speeds. Unfortunately, one necessary stat is missing: just how high the repeated earthquakes caused by the fans are registering on the Richter Scale.Sitting in the upper press area and feeling the stands sway and my ears pop from the noise, I suspect it could be a 6.4. Or maybe higher. Whatever the number, it has to be higher than the famous Beast Quake caused by Seattle Seahawks fans while cheering Marshawn Lynchs touchdown run several seasons ago. The fans here are that loud.Soccer is Brazils favorite sport, but the fans at the womens medal matches Wednesday night showed their monumental passion for beach volleyball. Not only was the 12,000-seat stadium completely filled with roaring fans, there were folks sitting on the Copacabana beachs sand banks outside the security fence, straining to watch the game on the video board mounted atop the stands.Inside the stadium, the fans roared Bra-zil! Bra-zil! Bra-zil! chants, waved their arms enthusiastically when the speakers played Monster block! after a powerful block and sang along excitedly to La Bamba, Volare and other tunes. Naturally, they also were vocally supporting their own countrys teams (but occasionally cheering the opposition, too) as they tried to win bronze and then gold in Wednesday nights two matches.At one point during the bronze-medal match, the announcer shouted, When I say April! you say Ross! But when he shouted April!, the Brazilian response naturally was mostly loud boos.Not that it mattered to Americans Kerri Walsh-Jennings or April Ross. They simply drew energy from the passionate crowd while coming back for a three-set victory.It was stereotypically Brazilian, and I mean that in the best way possible, Walsh-Jennings said of the phenomenal atmosphere. The energy is just relentless, and I felt like we had a great amount of fans for us there. They appreciate good volleyball.And bear in mind, there were all these fans here even though the matches started at 10 p.m. and midnight.Why is beach volleyball so popular here??Because we have many, many beaches, Brazilian silver medalist Agatha Bednarczuk said.dddddddddddd Yes, its very important because of this. We can have many beach volleyball schools for kids. I had one school in my region, south of Rio, and we had 300 kids playing beach volleyball and beach soccer. Its in our lives.Even so, Bednarczuk said she never played in front of so many fans or where the energy level was so high. And she said that Tuesday night after she teamed with Barbara Seixas de Freitas in a semifinal victory against Walsh-Jennings and Ross. Wednesday nights matches were much louder.Unfortunately for the Brazilian fans, the volume and energy did not make enough of a difference for their country to win either medal match. In the opening match, Brazils Larissa Franca Maestrini and Talita Rocha won the first set and led 14-13 in the second when Walsh-Jennings made an incredible save by racing almost into the stands to keep the ball in play. She and Ross won the point, tied the score and rallied back to win the bronze.It was the fourth Olympic medal for Walsh-Jennings, who won gold in 2004, 2008 and 2012.When people talk about beach volleyball, they talk about Kerri Walsh, Rocha said. She is the most famous player in the world.In the gold-medal match, Bednarczuk and Seixas de Freitas lost in straight sets to the German team of Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst. As the match advanced, the fans quieted a bit, to the point where the quakes were reduced to mere tremors and the decibel level dropped to only slightly higher than a 747 during takeoff.Afterward, the Brazilian fans might have been outvoiced by the German fans during the playing of Coldplays When I Ruled the World.Or perhaps it only seemed that way to me because by then my hearing might have been severely damaged by the crowd noise. Even if my hearing is 50 percent of what it once was, I still will be able to hear the fans at Thursday nights mens gold-medal match between Brazil and Italy -- even though Ill be miles away at the track and field venue. ' ' '