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CLEVELAND -- A long night at the ballpark left the Cleveland Indians weary and drenched. A solution, however, was easy to find. "Everybodys tired," joked Indians manager Terry Francona. "Its amazing...show up, have 12 pieces of bacon and a Red Bull and go get em." While the pregame meal may have played a factor in Saturdays 5-0 win over Tampa Bay, the Indians found other reasons that led to their success. Ubaldo Jimenez pitched eight scoreless innings while Jason Giambi and Asdrubal Cabrera hit two-run homers in the game that began about 10 hours following the conclusion of Friday nights contest that ended at 2:53 a.m. on Saturday after nearly five hours of rain delays. Despite his big day, which included and RBI single in the third, Giambi admitted he was exhausted. "Im delirious right now," he said. "I feel like Pinocchio with no strings. My last two at-bats I thought about bunting because of the bat speed that I have, but then I said, I have to run. I was done." Jimenez (4-3) gave the Indians exactly what they needed. The right-hander allowed four hits and struck out seven in stopping Tampa Bays six-game winning streak. The Rays, who rolled to a 9-2 win earlier Saturday morning, had only two runners reach second base. "On a day where the only two people probably out there who werent tired were the starting pitchers, he gave us every bit what we needed," Francona said. Giambi homered in his third straight game to give the Indians a 2-0 lead in the second. He added an RBI single in third while Cabreras two-run blast came in the fifth. Tampa Bay right-hander Chris Archer (0-1), called up from Triple A-Durham before the game, allowed five runs in four innings. He faced three batters in the fifth and was pulled after Nick Swisher lined a single off his glove following Cabreras home run. The force of the blow knocked Archer to the ground. He was uninjured but was removed by manager Joe Maddon. No one could blame either team for feeling tired after a long night at the ballpark Friday when three rain delays totalling 4:49 pushed a game that began on the last day of May into the early hours of the first day in June. Neither team took batting practice on the field Saturday for the game that began at 1:05 p.m. "Its part of the job," Swisher said. "Its what we get paid to do. We were here early this morning. Guys were pumped up. We had the music blasting. We needed a win like this, especially with the way early this morning ended." Maddon admitted his team was dragging a bit. "Our guys legitimately were tired today and I dont blame them," he said. "I really respected their effort today. It was a tough day to come back and play this game. Well get a good nights sleep and come back and do well tomorrow." Jimenez, winning for the first time since May 11, came within three outs of his fourth career complete game shutout and first since 2011 while pitching for Colorado. Desmond Jennings seventh-inning double was the only hit he allowed that left the infield. The only walk Jimenez, who threw 108 pitches, gave up was to Matt Joyce leading off the game. "I felt really good," said Jimenez, who had his longest outing of the season. "The guys had a crazy game last night after waiting for so long to play." "The biggest guy was Ubaldo," Giambi said. "He was the guy who made it all happen." Vinnie Pestano pitched the ninth for Clevelands eighth shutout of the season. After being held to one hit by four pitchers in Fridays marathon, the Indians woke up against Archer. Swisher drew a leadoff walk in the second before Giambi homered to right on a 2-1 pitch. The veteran slugger also hit a pinch-hit home run Monday against Cincinnati and added a three-run homer against the Reds on Wednesday. The 42-year-old Giambi, signed to a minor league contract in February, singled home Jason Kipnis in the third. Kipnis started the rally with a one-out double. Giambi has five homers and 19 RBIs in 69 at-bats for the season. Kipnis also started the fifth-inning rally with a leadoff single and scored when Cabrera hit an 0-1 pitch to right for his fifth homer of the season. Archer, the Indians fifth-round selection in 2006, gave up seven hits, struck out four and walked three. NOTES: Fridays lengthy game forced both teams to makes roster moves with their pitching staffs. The Indians optioned LHP Scott Barnes to Triple-A Columbus and recalled RHP Ryan Langewell from Columbus. Barnes was the losing pitcher Friday, allowing five runs in one inning. ... The Rays optioned LHP Jeff Beliveau to Durham to open a roster spot for Archer. RHP Josh Lueke, who pitched two innings Friday, was also optioned to Durham while LHP Alex Torres was recalled from the same club. Torres allowed one hit in four scoreless innings Saturday. ... Fridays one-hitter was the 10th in Rays history and the second involving four or more pitchers. ... Tampa Bay LHP Matt Moore, who started Fridays game but only pitched the first inning because of the rain delays, is scheduled to start Thursday in Detroit but that could be pushed up a day or two. ... Rays RHP Jeremy Hellickson (2-2) is scheduled to start Sundays series finale against RHP Zach McAllister (4-4). Wholesale Baseball Jerseys . Vokoun departed practice on Saturday morning after discovering swelling in his thigh. He was taken to a local hospital where the clot was revealed. The club announced the surgery following a 5-3 exhibition loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Cheap MLB Jerseys From China . The showiest items on Calgarys lot were forwards Mike Cammalleri and Lee Stempniak. Both will be unrestricted free agents this summer. https://www.mlbjerseyschina.us/ . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf. Fake Nike MLB Jerseys . Burris threw two TD passes, including a key 15-yard fourth-quarter strike to Bakari Grant that effectively countered a Toronto comeback bid and led Hamilton to a 33-19 victory. Clearance MLB Jerseys . The Clippers were angry about blowing a big lead; the Kings didnt like being in that kind of hole and nearly digging themselves out only to lose. EL PASO, Texas -- For the Army football team, the game was for sophomore defensive back Brandon Jackson.Darnell Woolfolk ran for three touchdowns, Andy Davidson rushed for 106 yards and another score and Army routed UTEP 66-14 on Saturday night, days after Jackson was killed in a car accident.Jackson was a starting defensive back for the Black Knights, and played in all 14 games since his arrival in 2015 and finished with 68 career tackles and three interceptions, two of which came against Wake Forest in 2015. He was killed Sunday, hours after Army beat Rice in its home opener.We made Brandon proud, said senior linebacker and captain Andrew King. And were going to keep fighting for him. Brandon is going to be on our minds for the whole season, and for as long as we live.The battle of the nations No. 4 running team against its No. 2 ball carrier never emerged in the Sun Bowl as Army steamrolled its way to a victory in the first meeting between the teams. Army is 3-0 for the first time since the 1996 season, when it started 9-0.We prepared like we had a chip on our shoulder, King said. We just followed our plan.The Black Knights, who average 338 yards per game, conducted a triple-option clinic, rolling up 424 yards rushing on 72 attempts. Woolfolk had 15 carries for 71 yards, with all three scoring runs coming from inside the 10. Davidson had a 33-yard touchdown run in the third quarter to make it 31-0.Theyve been a good 1-2 punch the whole year, Army coach Jeff Monken said about Woolfolk and Davidson.It was really good, Woolfolk said of the way the teams wishbone attack clicked. It just boils down to execution. Everyone was locked in and focusing.UTEP (1-2) allowed the most points at home since 2003. Aaron Jones, who entered the game as the nations second leading rusher, finished with 67 yards on 11 carries and one score.My hats off to Army, UTEP coach Sean Kugler said. In every phase, on offense, defense, special teams, they outcoached us, outhustled us, out did us in everything.Id put them in the Top 25. I have a vote. Ill take care of that tomorrow, Kugler added.THE TAKEAWAYARMY: The Black Knights wishbone option rattled off 45 plays to UTEPs 15 and carried a 22:33 to 7:18 edge in time of possession into the break. They had the balll 10 times and scored on nine of those possessions.dddddddddddd Special teams added another score, Max Regans 13-yard fumble return for a touchdown off a kickoff.Eight different players scored for Army. The Black Knights never punted, and did not commit a turnover for the third game in a row. Coming into the game, the Black Knight were one of just five FBS teams without a turnover.Army ran 80 plays and had a 41:40 to 18:20 edge in time of possession. The Black Knights were 10 of 12 on third-down conversions, five of which were third-and-2 plays.Three Black Knight quarterbacks combined for 174 yards on 7-for-8 passing. Malik McGue, a freshman, threw just two passes, one for a touchdown. Army had nine pass attempts in its first two games.UTEP: Playing behind the entire way, the UTEP rushing game never had a chance to get Jones, the nations No. 2 runner, on track. He had just five carries for 13 yards in the first half.FOR THE TROOPSSaturdays game was filled with motivation for Army. Not only were the Knights playing with heavy hearts, but they also were playing for teammates of another kind.El Paso is home to a large Army base at Fort Bliss. For years, UTEP has tried to get the Black Knights on their schedule, but there was a long waiting list. The game finally happened Saturday, and El Paso responded with a crowd of 37,893.Monken said he and his players were motivated by that fact.I know we had a lot of soldiers from Fort Bliss who came out and saw the team in person for the first time in their life, and Im proud of the way we represented them, he said.The game was billed as One City. One Team, as many citizens of El Paso and Fort Bliss soldiers are fans of both teams.HISTORIC NIGHTArmys 66 points were the most since they scored 69 points against Pittsburgh in 1944, and 68 points against Colgate in 1958.UTEP hadnt allowed this many points at home since San Jose put up 69 in 2003.Army hadnt played in El Paso since 1988, when it lost to Alabama in the Sun Bowl.UP NEXTARMY: The Black Knights travel to Buffalo on Saturday.UTEP: The Miners open their Conference USA schedule at home Saturday against Southern Miss. ' ' '