Matt LaPorta’s two-out single scored pinch runner Anderson Hernandez to lift the Indians to a 5-4 victory in 10 innings Saturday night at Progressive Field.

It was one of three hits on the night for LaPorta, who also drove in a run in the fourth.

Cleveland won for the sixth time in seven games.

ELYRIA — Banks, post offices, financial institutions and governmental offices at the local, state, county and federal levels will be closed on Monday in observance of the July Fourth holiday.

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E-Check stations also will be closed for the day. City sanitation serv­ices will be idle for the day and will resume collections on Tuesday with routes being one day behind the entire week with collections con­cluding Saturday. Allied Waste, meanwhile, will work on Monday and pickup on schedule all week.

Many retail and conven­ience stores will be open for business during their holiday schedule. Some in-store bank branches and ATM services will be available throughout the area.

Area communities have fireworks and other events planned for the holiday weekend. They are:

Amherst

Nothing planned

Avon

Fireworks are being co­sponsored with the Lake Erie Crushers and will be after Sunday evening’s Crushers game at All Pro Freight Stadium. The city is clearing an area next to the BP gas station near the stadium for additional parking.

Avon Lake

Fireworks will be at Miller Road Park at dusk Sunday following Artsfest.

Artsfest begins 1:30 p.m. and will feature local artists, face painting, family activities, food and entertainment.

Visitors are encouraged to park at Nautical Lanes and the Reliant Energy construction and employee parking lots. There will be no street parking near Miller Road Park on Lake Road or Miller Road.

Columbia Township

Nothing planned

Grafton

Nothing planned

Elyria

Nothing planned

LaGrange

Nothing planned

Lorain

Fireworks will be 10 p.m. Sunday along the Black River.

There will be a concert by Victor Highway at 7 p.m. at Black River Landing, while Big Bill’s DJ service will spin tunes at 7 p.m. at Lakeside Landing. Refreshment vendors will be on hand.

Fireworks will be launched from Spitzer Marina.

North Ridgeville

Fireworks will be at dusk Saturday at South Central Park.

Events kick off with a Rangers 3 on 3 Holiday Basketball Tournament at 9 a.m. at South Central Park.

The tourney offers age divisions of 12 and younger, 13 to 15, and 16 to 18. Fee is $50 per team. Sign up at the Parks & Recreation office or call (440) 353-0860. There will also be a noon tennis tourney, and martial arts class demonstration.

Vendors will begin selling food at 3 p.m.

Free family activities will be offered 6 to 8:30 p.m., including music by the Christian Brothers and Skylark. A magic show, inflatable slide, games and boogie body dancing are also on tap.

Oberlin

Oberlin will have fireworks at dusk Sunday at Hamilton Road Recreation Complex, 225 W. Hamilton St. The rain date is Monday. As part of the 18th annual Oberlin Summer Concert Series, rhythm and blues group E.T.

King and the Determination will perform a free concert 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Tappan Square’s Clark Bandstand at the southwest corner of state routes 58 (North Main Street) and 511 (West Lorain Street.)

Sheffield Lake

Fireworks will be July 17 as part of Community Days.

Sheffield

Nothing planned

South Amherst

Nothing planned

Vermilion

The Hebrew National Better-Than-A-Picnic Picnic will be 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Saturday at Victory Park. The free event features a mechanical bull ride, giant cow puzzle, radio remote, street teams, hot dogs and other food.

An art show will be at the Main Street Vermilion Gallery beginning Saturday and continuing to July 31.

The city will have no fireworks.

Wellington

There will be an ice cream social and a free concert by the Patriots Community Band at 7 p.m. Saturday in front of Wellington Town Hall, followed by fireworks at the Lorain County Fairgrounds at dusk.

CLEVELAND – Though most of the Cleveland Indians’ 3-0 loss to the Oakland A’s on Friday night was unsightly, it was Mike Redmond’s at-bat in the sixth inning that truly put the “ugh” in ugly.

The Indians had consistently failed at the plate – though Jayson Nix was credited with a single on a ball that easily could have been scored an error in the fourth inning – before the offense woke up with two outs in the sixth.

Jhonny Peralta, Matt LaPorta and Nix all singled to load the bases. Redmond then stepped to the plate and looped a ball into right field as the Progressive Field crowd erupted.

But Oakland right fielder Ryan Sweeney caught the ball on one bounce and silenced the crowd by zipping it to first to get Redmond and end the inning.

“I knew that was something that could happen and I’m kind of surprised it hasn’t happened before,” Redmond said. “They played a shift on me. They’ve played that way on me for years … and I hit it right to them.”

Indians manager Manny Acta said he wasn’t surprised Redmond was gunned down from the outfield.

“They take that chance and they play him shallow,” Acta said. “He doesn’t run like Jason Donald. … There was nothing he could do. If he hits the ball over their head then they get burned, but that wasn’t the case tonight.”

The play was just the exclamation point on a poor performance by the Indians, who saw their season-high five-game winning streak come to an end.

Cleveland’s only other hit was a two-out double by Shin-Soo Choo, who had to leave the game after injuring himself diving for a flyball in the eighth inning, and rookie sensation Carlos Santana quickly struck out to end the threat. Santana finished with an uncharacteristic 0-for-4 performance, just the second time in 19 games he didn’t reach base.

Even Mitch Talbot’s solid effort on the mound was marred by small stretches of ineffectiveness. The rookie walked in the game’s first run in the first inning and was hit hard in the sixth for Oakland’s other two runs.

“I threw a few too many balls out there,” Talbot said. “I struggled with the location of my change-up early and I got behind too many guys. It wasn’t a very good night on the mound.”

Acta thought his starting pitcher did enough to give the Indians a chance to win, but credited Oakland starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez as the main reason the A’s cruised to their American League-leading ninth shutout of the season.

Gonzalez (7-5, 3.50 ERA) has allowed just one earned run over his last three starts.

“He was the story,” Acta said. “He had a very good fastball tonight and had a sharp sinker working. He was tough and we just couldn’t seem to figure him out.”

While the loss to Oakland will be deemed forgettable by most Indians fans, the rare 9-3 putout of Redmond will be a hard memory to erase. The veteran catcher just hopes that fans remember it was the way Oakland’s defense played him that led to the out.

“What bothers me is that there’s probably people out there saying, ‘He didn’t hustle,’ or telling their kids, ‘That guy didn’t hustle to first base,’” Redmond said. “I can suck up getting thrown out from right field, but I hustled out of the box. I’ve busted my butt for 13 years in this league and that bothers me quite a bit.”

Redmond said he was almost thrown out on a similar play four or five years ago – also while playing against Oakland – but the throw from the outfield was high and he reached safely. He added that if he could hit the ball away from the shallow outfielder, he obviously would.

“I don’t know anyone in this league who knows how to steer the ball,” he said. “I’m going to keep hitting the ball there and hope for the best. I’ve hit .300 in this league for quite a few years by slapping balls to right field – that’s what I do.”

Contact Shaun Bennett at 329-7137 or sbennett@chroniclet.com.

TONIGHT

• WHO: Cleveland vs. Oakland
• TIME: 7:05
• WHERE: Progressive Field
• PITCHERS: Westbrook (5-4, 4.69 ERA) vs. Mortensen (MLB debut)
• TV/RADIO: SportsTime Ohio; WEOL 930-AM, WTAM 1100-AM

LORAIN — A Lorain woman told police a man forced her 6-year-old daughter into his apartment and tried to take her clothes off yesterday afternoon.

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Eliseo Arce, 56, of Lorain, is in the Lorain City Jail without bond facing an abduction charge, according to a police report.

The woman, 35, told police she was in front of her apartment building at 1906 Lexington Ave. with her daughter and told her daughter to run inside and get her cell phone.

After her daughter was gone for about five minutes, the woman thought she was taking too long, so she opened the apartment building door and saw her daughter running up the stairs.

Her daughter then told her the following happened:

As she was making her way to her apartment, she was grabbed from behind by a man, later determined to be Arce. He put his hand over her mouth and carried her into his apartment. Once in the apartment he took her through the living room to a back bedroom.

The girl said the man then attempted to pull her shorts down but stopped when she waved her hands back and forth signaling him to stop. She said said he stopped pulling on her shorts and then tried to lift up her T-shirt.

She said someone then knocked on the bedroom window, and Arce told her “Run, get out of here.”

That is when the girl ran from the apartment and told her mother what had happened.

As police were speaking with the girl’s mother, Arce rode up on a bicycle and asked “You guys looking for me?”

When police responded, “No, why?” he replied “Oh, heard you were, something about me grabbing a little girl.”

Police then searched the Arce’s apartment, and it matched up with the girl’s description that he had two cats and that the TV was on in the back bedroom she had been taken too.

The man who had knocked on the window told police he is a friend of Arce and was there to give him a ride to the store.

According to Lorain police Sgt. Mark Carpentiere, the incident remains under investigation, and it’s possible more charges could be filed.