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Lawrence Thomas knows he will feature in every highlights reel for this A-League season for the wrong reason.The Melbourne Victory goalkeeper is the one watching and then diving in vain as Tim Cahills 40-metre rocket scorched past him and into the net in this seasons first Melbourne derby.Its a great finish, Thomas told AAP, underplaying the strike just a touch.It was perhaps the A-Leagues best ever goal.The stunning moment had Melbourne City fans screaming, Victory fans speechless, and Thomas himself sprawled on the grass.But the mature 24-year-old gloveman has already accepted it as the goalkeepers lot.And theres no way hell be retreating from his advanced position as a sweeper-keeper when Cahill or any other forward is on the ball, 40 metres from goal.If I cop one of those a season Ill take that on the chin, he said.Nonetheless Ill continue to be in that position.I cut out a lot more balls coming through than I do conceding goals from that position and the ones I cut out are one-on-one chances.While Thomas conceded four on that October night, itd be hard to pin blame for any of them at his feet.And since then, Thomas has formed part of one of the meanest A-League defences.Victory has conceded just five goals in seven games - and one in the last month - to surge to third on the A-League table.Thomas - who was in goal for Victorys 2015 grand final win - said he was feeling confident after starting an A-League season as Victorys first-choice gloveman.I feel like Im having a solid season. Thats the greatest thing about getting a regular league spot, you get a chance weekly to perform, he said.I look back at the goals I have conceded and quite a few of them have been great finishes.Im not happy to concede. I never want to get beaten.But if youre covering certain areas of the goal and people are beating you by off the post and in or top corners, then yknow.A win over City would have Kevin Muscats side in second place with that catch-up game against Wellington Phoenix to come.Thomas said he believed Victorys early-season inconsistency had been banished and a derby day success would cement their resurgence.One week we looked fantastic and the next we didnt turn up, he said.But the last patch of five, six, seven games has been very solid. The inconsistency is gone and were in decent form.Its a massive game and especially for the fans.Coming into Christmas, we have a massive responsibility to send fans home happy. Omar Gonzalez USA Jersey . 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BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore Orioles will try to continue their string of good starts while the Cleveland Indians are going to search for some offense again in Sundays series finale at Camden Yards.The Orioles won the first two games of this series, getting strong efforts from Kevin Gausman (seven shutout innings in Saturdays 5-2 victory) and Dylan Bundy (five innings with one unearned run in Fridays 5-1 win).That followed Chris Tillmans seven innings of one-run baseball in Thursdays 4-1 victory over the Yankees. Baltimore starters now have allowed two runs in 19 innings over that three-game stretch -- each of which the Orioles have won.Its a good offense 1/8with Cleveland 3/8, and I think me and Bundy both pitched well the last few days and really everybody has pitched well, Gausman said. I think that more than anything is big.Orioles manager Buck Showalter said every day is different, and the team needs to keep up that consistency in the starting rotation.Theres going to be another challenge around every corner and you cant dwell on successes and failures here, he said. Well need another good pitching effort in order to compete with them.In the series finale, Vance Worley (2-1, 3.16) will make a second straight start for the Orioles, going against Corey Kluber (9-8, 3.42).Worley gave up three runs on three hits in 4 1/3 innings of Tuesdays 7-1 loss versus the Yankees as the Orioles have been using him and Bundy in the back end of their rotation.The Orioles were struggling there with Ubaldo Jimenez, Tyler Wilson and Mike Wriight pitching in those spots for much of this season.ddddddddddddBundy earned his first victory as a major league starter in Fridays win.The question is how long the rotation looks like this -- especially in the back end -- as Baltimores made it clear that the team is searching to make a deal before the trade deadline.Kluber earned the victory for the American League in the All-Star Game on July 12 and threw seven scoreless innings in his last start on July 18 versus the Royals, where he did not get a decision.The Indians have one of the best starting rotations in baseball but their starters -- Trevor Bauer and Josh Tomlin -- lost the first two games of this series as Baltimore took early leads in both.Cleveland also has struggled on offense as the Orioles starters shut them down. Plus, Baltimore took a 3-0 lead in the first inning both times, with Mark Trumbo hitting homers both times, a two-run shot in Saturdays game.The first inning kind of jumped up and grabbed us again, Cleveland manager Terry Francona said Saturday. You know, sometimes you kind of tip our hat to the other team.Jason Kipnis agreed with Francona and added that the offense just couldnt do enough against Baltimores pitching. The Indians have featured one of baseballs hottest offenses in recent weeks but not in this series.And thats something they want to change.The offense just didnt do our thing, Kipnis said on Saturday night. ' ' '