CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees will meet for the first time this season Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series at Progressive Field.Both teams are coming off losses on Wednesday. Cleveland fell 12-2 at home to the Detroit Tigers, while the Yankees were shut out by the White Sox 5-0 in Chicago.For the Yankees, the series in Cleveland will conclude a 10-game road trip leading into the All-Star break. The Yankees, mired in fourth place in the American League East, are 2-4 in the first six games of their trip. They lost two of three to the San Diego Padres and dropped two of three in Chicago.The Indians, meanwhile, have been one of the majors most refreshing success stories. They recently had a team-record 14-game winning streak, and Wednesdays 12-2 loss to Detroit was the Indians first defeat at home since May 31 and snapped a 13-game winning streak at Progressive Field.Winners of 16 of their last 19 games overall, the Indians are in first place in the AL Central, 6 1/2 games ahead of the second-place Tigers, and theyve impressed Yankees manager Joe Girardi.Theyre playing extremely well, and I think it all starts with their starting pitching, Girardi said. Theyve pitched extremely well. Their bullpen has done a nice job, and they have young players who are playing well. They are a complete club. They are not going to beat themselves. So it will be a tough series.Indians manager Terry Francona says one of the unheralded areas of strength on his team is its base running. Weve been a very good base-running team, which is good because we worked on it a lot in spring training, Francona said. We need to be a team that can score from second on a hit, and go from first to third on a hit.The pitching matchup for the series opener will feature Clevelands Trevor Bauer (7-2, 3.02 ERA) versus New Yorks Ivan Nova (5-5, 5.06). Bauers last appearance, and last win, came in relief. In the Indians 2-1 win over Toronto in 19 innings on July 1, Bauer was pressed into service as a reliever and pitched the last five innings, holding Toronto scoreless on two hits. Bauer has struggled in his career versus the Yankees, going 1/3 with a 4.78 ERA in five appearances.Nova is looking for his first win since June 9. In four starts since, he is 0-2 with a 6.98 ERA while allowing opposing batters to hit .333 against him. In two career starts vs. Cleveland, Nova is 1-1 with a 3.75 ERA.The Yankees are 0-3-1 in their last four series vs. Cleveland since the start of the 2014 season. 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I was just photographing the photographers standing trackside and then saw Massa have a moment at the top of the corner. He clipped the barrier and I just kept shooting -- I had the 400 on so it was a bit tight. When he hit the barrier it was more frontal, so it was a bit of the front wing came off. I didnt really see what happened after that -- I just knew I had to get the wide angle on for the next shots of him getting out of the car.Massas final farewellCamera - Nikon D5 body | Lens - 70-200mm F2.8 | Shutter speed - 1/500th of a second | Aperture - F5.6 | ISO - 1600This was a walk of emotion, coming out of the car and waving to the crowd over the barrier. Then one of the marshals gave him a flag and I thought well, thats the shot, as he walked away. I couldnt get any closer because that was the track, he actually shouldnt have been where he was but it created a great picture. I could see the flag was floating above his head so I was waiting for a shot of when I could see his face. When I first sent these back at the media centre I was in such a rush I dont think I sent the best shot from this sequence, I sent one where you cant see his face.I was changinng lenses in the rain and it was a rush, to be honest.dddddddddddd Youre waiting for those moments to happen and when they do you have a smile on your face in the background, you just go with it. There was still the rest of the race to finish so you have to focus on your job. nRain delayCamera - Nikon D5 body | Lens - Nikkor 70-200 F2.8 | Shutter speed - 1/320th of a second | Aperture - F11 | ISO - 1600The rain delay made for a chaotic afternoon. The race was on-again off-again several times and it made it chaotic. One good shot to come from it was the train of cars behind the safety car. 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