CALIFORNIA Washburn quiets Tribe's bats again

He beat Cleveland for the second time in seven days.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Jarrod Washburn wasn't about to let a rookie get in the way of his first complete-game victory.
Jody Gerut could have deprived the Anaheim left-hander of a chance to close it out had he reached base with one out and runners at second and third in the ninth.
Gerut worked the count full before striking out on a slider, and Washburn got Casey Blake on a popup as the Angels beat Cleveland 6-1 Tuesday night.
"I throw about 95 percent fastballs, so he was probably thinking fastball," Washburn said after his six-hitter. "I know if I would have walked Gerut, I would have been done. I know if there was one more hit, I would have been done. So I knew I had to make pitches. I was a little tired, but I felt like I could get it done."
Has Tribe's number
Washburn beat Cleveland for the second time in seven days. At Jacobs Field, he was five outs away from a complete-game win when Matt Lawton hit a two-run homer. Both of Washburn's other complete games were losses.
"It feels awful good to come off that field after the last out and finish something I started -- and be on the winning side," Washburn said. "It's your goal every time out to throw a shutout. I still haven't done that."
Washburn (3-3) threw 106 pitches -- the last one coming just 2 hours and 1 minute after the first one.
The only reason he was allowed to come back out for the ninth inning was a three-run homer in the seventh by Bengie Molina and a solo shot by Adam Kennedy in the eighth.
"Bengie Molina is the hero tonight, too," Washburn said. "That guy called a great game, he caught a great game and he got a big hit."
Homers accounted for all of Anaheim's runs, including a two-run shot by Garret Anderson in the first after Cleveland's Ellis Burks hit his 350th career home run in the top of the inning.
Angels manager Mike Scioscia is a proponent of little ball, but he couldn't find fault with his team's power game.
"We're going to take it. We're not going to give anything back," Scioscia said after the defending World Series champs ended a three-game losing streak.
"The home runs were nice, but hopefully we'll be able to incorporate the type of game that we need to in between these home runs once in a while."
Rookie loses
Rookie Ricardo Rodriguez (2-3) allowed five runs and four hits over 61/3 innings, while the Indians lost for the 10th time in 12 games and seventh straight time on the road.
"I felt good, but I got in trouble in the first inning. After that, I was pitching the way I was supposed to and I went after the hitters," Rodriguez said.
"But then in the seventh, I made two mistakes. I walked the leadoff guy and then I made a mistake with Molina."
Had manager Eric Wedge not changed pitchers in the middle of an inning, the game would have lasted less than two hours.
The first five innings were played in a brisk 1 hour, 6 minutes -- 31 years to the day that the Angels played the shortest nine-inning game in club history (1:31).
"It starts with pitching," Angels shortstop David Eckstein said. "When you've got two quality pitchers who work quick and throw a lot of strikes, the games are going to be a lot shorter. And the umpires are going to keep the game going, too. Those games are fun to play in."