INTERLEAGUE Arizona offense too much for Tribe



Indians starter Ricardo Rodriguez left the game with a strained triceps.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Robby Hammock performed so well Sunday, he even received a standing ovation after striking out.
Hammock had four hits, including a pair of triples that tied a team record, to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Cleveland Indians 13-3.
"When stuff like that happens, you don't even remember the at-bats," Hammock said. "You're unconscious out there."
Hammock, who singled in the second and doubled in the sixth, needed a homer in his final at-bat to hit for the cycle but struck out against Dan Miceli. As he jogged back to the dugout, he received a standing ovation from the near-capacity crowd.
"That was kind of strange," Hammock said. "They wanted to see a homer. That's supposed to be easy, right? A home run?"
Diamondback attack
Chad Moeller had three hits, Hammock drove in three runs, and Alex Cintron and Junior Spivey each homered for the Diamondbacks, who have won four of six.
Arizona had a season-high 18 hits, including 11 for extra bases, and scored its most runs since a 17-8 win over Colorado last Sept. 28, the next-to-last day of the season.
Brandon Webb (3-1), activated from the disabled list before the game, allowed five hits in seven innings and contributed to the offense with his first career hit. He struck out six and walked two.
"It's pretty tough to top his first start in the big leagues, but his breaking stuff was as sharp as I've seen it," Arizona manager Bob Brenly said. "That was more than we hoped to see today."
Webb has allowed three runs or fewer in each of his sevens.
"It feels like I didn't skip a beat," said Webb, who lowered his ERA to 2.20.
Early offense
Arizona scored two runs in the first against Ricardo Rodriguez (3-7), added three runs each in the second and third, scored twice in the fifth, once in the sixth and twice more in the seventh.
Rodriguez gave up five runs and six hits. He left after 12/3 innings, his shortest career start, because of a strained right triceps.
"I felt something I never felt before," he said. "I didn't want to keep throwing and make it worse."
Luis Gonzalez singled home the first run in the first and scored on Shea Hillenbrand's double.
Cleveland scored in the second when Moeller swiped at a pitch in the dirt with his mask, causing umpires to send Ben Broussard home from third. Moeller was charged with an error for touching the ball with a detached part of his equipment.
Arizona made it 5-1 in the third on Alex Cintron's three-run homer, one batter before Rodriguez left the game.
"Obviously it did affect him," Indians manager Eric Wedge said of Rodriguez's injury. "He was up in the zone and didn't have the same life on his sinker so we had to get him out of there."
The Diamondbacks increased their lead to 8-1 in the third against Brian Tallet on Hammock's two-run triple and Moeller's RBI bloop single.
Hammock tripled in the fifth against Terry Mulholland and scored on a single by Chad Moeller, who came around on a double-play grounder.
Hammock added an RBI double in the sixth.
Zach Sorensen bounced his first career homer off the top of the right-field wall in the seventh. Spivey hit a two-run homer in the bottom half.