AMERICAN LEAGUE Moyer wins 15th as Seattle edges Tribe, 2-1

The Mariners improved to 6-1 against the Indians this season.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- C.C. Sabathia can fire a fastball at nearly 100 mph, but wishes he could throw one just like Jamie Moyer.
Moyer became the American League's third 15-game winner with seven innings of soft toss, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 2-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night.
Throwing his usual assortment of curves, change-ups and a not-so-fastball, Moyer (15-5) allowed one run and three hits to join Oakland's Mark Mulder and Toronto's Roy Halladay for the league lead in victories.
Moyer rarely reached 80 mph on the speed gun, baffling the young Indians, who didn't know what to expect pitch by pitch from the veteran left-hander.
"What impresses me about him is the radar gun," Sabathia (9-7) said. "He throws 65 [mph], then his fastball at 85 looks like 105. I need him to teach me that."
Late-inning help
Jeff Nelson struck out the side in the eighth, and Shigetoshi Hasegawa worked a perfect ninth for his eighth save, as the Mariners improved to 6-1 against Cleveland this season.
Ichiro Suzuki had three hits -- including a leadoff triple he turned into a run with his speed -- for the AL West-leading Mariners.
Rookie Jhonny Peralta homered for Cleveland, which dropped its fifth straight and is 4-14 since the All-Star break.
Moyer, who hasn't lost since June 25 -- a span of seven starts -- gave up a leadoff homer to Peralta in the third. John McDonald then singled, but the Indians didn't get their third hit until the seventh.
Moyer retired 14 straight before rookie Victor Martinez's hit, but he followed by striking out Travis Hafner. He walked one, struck out five and improved to 5-0 with a 1.74 ERA in his last six starts against Cleveland.
"That guy kills us," Sabathia said.
Scouting report
Moyer said he relied on the Mariners' scouting report to get through the Indians' young starting lineup, which included three players he had never seen and several others he faced only once before.
"They put some pretty good at-bats together," said Moyer. "It seemed like they had a good game plan."
Moyer also had one, except against Peralta, who led off the third with his second homer that brought the Indians within 2-1.
Asked what he'll write in his journal about the Indians shortstop, Moyer said: "Don't throw anything down the middle of the plate. He should have hit it out of the park."
Sabathia took exception with some of plate umpire Tim McClelland's early calls, and then lost his cool in the third after walking in Seattle's second run.
The left-hander walked John Olerud on a 3-2 pitch that seemed a little high to force in the run. When the inning ended, Sabathia paused near the third-base line and motioned to McClelland by gesturing as if to say, "What gives?"
Pushed
But before Sabathia got into trouble, center fielder Milton Bradley, who has a history of run-ins with umpires, pushed his teammate toward the dugout.
"I was mad at myself," Sabathia explained. "I knew it was up. I was yelling at myself. What got me mad was he came out and challenged me. He wanted to know what my problem was. I said, 'Who you talking to? I'm yelling at myself.'
"He said I was looking and giving him a stare. I said, 'I'm a 23-year-old man and I can look where I want to look.' "
Suzuki opened the game with a liner into the right-field corner that Jody Gerut fielded cleanly. However, Gerut rushed his throw trying to get the speedy Suzuki and missed second baseman McDonald, his cutoff man.
Hafner took the throw instead, but he overthrew third into the photographer's pit, allowing Suzuki to score.
Mariners manager Bob Melvin has seen that before.
"It's a triple and all of a sudden you have to make a quick throw," Melvin said. "That's what he [Suzuki] does."
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