AMERICAN LEAGUE Indians, Davis blow chance

Jason Davis needed only one more out to give the Indians another shutout.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- For one of the rare times this season, the Anaheim Angels found some late-inning magic. And there wasn't a rally monkey within miles.
Garret Anderson hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth Friday night, ending rookie Jason Davis' shutout bid and leading the Anaheim Angels to a 5-2 win over the Cleveland Indians.
Davis (7-9) was one out from blanking Anaheim -- and giving Cleveland consecutive shutouts for the first time since 1991 -- when Anderson drove his first pitch over the wall in center.
"We've been taking our lumps all year," Anderson said. "It's nice to finally do something like this. Those opportunities haven't been there that much."
Snapped losing streak
The defending World Series champions, now 3-57 when trailing after eight innings, snapped a five-game losing streak and won for just the third time in 14 games.
Anderson's shot was reminiscent of so many Anaheim comebacks last season, many at home aided by the Rally Monkey -- their video mascot -- when the Angels rallied for improbable wins.
Jarrod Washburn (9-11) was on his way to a tough loss when the Angels rallied in the ninth off Davis, who had escaped trouble in the seventh and eighth.
David Eckstein singled with one out and after Davis walked Jeff DaVanon, Indians manager Eric Wedge visited his right-hander with Tim Salmon coming up.
Wedge got a loud ovation from the Jacobs Field crowd when decided to leave Davis in with a 1-0 lead, and the strategy looked sound when he got Salmon to hit into a forceout.
"Being a catcher, I'm going to look in his eyes and see what I've got," said Wedge, in his first season with Cleveland. "He deserved the opportunity to finish that one off."
Anderson clouts 26th
Instead, it was Anderson who finished Davis off by hitting his 26th homer.
Washburn was icing his arm on the Angels' bench when Anderson connected, and when the left fielder got back to the bench the left-hander was waiting for him.
"I said, 'Thank you,' " Washburn said. "But why couldn't you have done that in the fourth inning to take a little pressure off?"
The Angels added two more runs in the inning on an RBI double by Robb Quinlan and Adam Kennedy's run-scoring single.
Washburn allowed one run and three hits in eight innings. He walked two and struck out seven.
Davis, now winless since June 29 -- a span of seven starts, walked one and struck out four.
"Anytime you lose, it's tough," Davis said. "But getting beat in the ninth with two outs, is the hardest way. He hit a grand slam off me earlier this year, and a three-run jack tonight. Sometimes you learn the hard way."
Crisp unloads again
Coco Crisp homered for the second straight game for the Indians, who dropped to 0-6 this season vs. the Angels.
Travis Hafner, who homered twice in Cleveland's series against Seattle when the Indians took two of three from the AL West-leading Mariners, gave the Indians a 1-0 lead in the second with an RBI single that for eight innings looked as if it might stand up.
Davis dominated the Angels over the first five innings. After DaVanon's one-out single in the first, the right-hander retired 13 straight before Kennedy beat out a bunt single to open the sixth.