At Progressive Field, Cleveland opened the score in the bottom of the second inning off of starter Sonny Gray.
Jay Bruce led off with a double and moved when Carlos Santana singled.
The bases got loaded when Gray hit Lonnie Chisenhall with a pitch.
Bruce then scored when Roberto Perez grounded into a double play, which was a tough grounder, but handled very well by short stop Didi Gregorius.
Two runs were added in the fourth inning.
Edwin Encarnacion led off with a walk and Jay Bruce followed with a homerun to make it a 3-0 score.
In the fifth, Cleveland scored its fourth run and again Jay Bruce was involved.
José Ramirez led off with a single and moved on a wild pitch.
After a pitching change, Ramirez advanced to third base on another wild pitch, then scored on a sacrifice fly from Jay Bruce.
The Yankees were unable to produce off of starter Trevor Bauer.
He walked Greg Bird with two outs in the second, but then closed with a strikeout.
In the top of the fourth, Aaron Judge led off and struckout, but reached on a wild pitch.
However, a double play followed.
After retiring the side in the fifth inning, Bauer was still pitching a No-Hitter, but that ended with one out in the sixth.
Aaron Hicks then doubled and moved on a grounder.
But Bauer then closed the inning by striking out Aaron Judge for the third time.
In the seventh inning, Bauer gave up a 2-out single to Starlin Castro and was then relieved by Andrew Miller, who closed with a strikeout.
In the top of the eighth, Andrew Miller struckout two batters, but also walked two.
He was then relieved by Cody Allen, who added another strikeout.
That lifted the strikeout-total for the Cleveland-pitchers to 12.
In the top of the ninth inning, New York recorded its third basehit of the evening when Starlin Castro singled with two outs.
That came after Didi Gregorius was called out on a check-swing by 3B Umpire Brian O'Nora.
The swing of Gregorius was close, but not close enough to call.
With Castro on first base, Cody Allen closed the game with another strikeout.
That gave the three Cleveland-pitchers 14 strikeouts, including eight by Trevor Bauer.
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Cleveland shuts out Yankees in opener American League Division Series
CLEVELAND, Ohio (USA) -
Defending American League-champion Cleveland Indians opened the best-of-five American League Division Series on Thursday-evening (October 5) with a 4-0 shutout-win against Wild Card-winner New York Yankees.
The Series continues on Friday.
Cleveland-starter Trevor Bauer held the Yankees hitless for 5 1/3 inning tonight.
In the end, New York recorded only three basehits.