AMERICAN LEAGUE Sabathia pitches Tribe past Jays

Rookie Grady Sizemore drove in the winning run in the sixth.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- C.C. Sabathia threw some good pitches and tossed around a few choice words, too.
Sabathia (9-6) pitched seven innings and had a screaming match with plate umpire Jeff Kellogg, and rookie Grady Sizemore broke a 2-2 tie with a sacrifice fly in the sixth to lead the Cleveland Indians past the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday night.
Matt Lawton hit his 19th homer for the Indians, who have won three in a row and improved to 15-3 at home in one-run games. He left in the eighth after being hit near the right elbow by a pitch thrown by Justin Speier.
"I was scared," Lawton said. "It didn't sound good. It didn't feel good. I couldn't move my arm for a minute. But I'm lucky. I should be fine."
Sabathia almost shouted his way into a fine.
"I yelled, sure I did," Sabathia said. "What I don't understand is him running out at me. If I bump him, then I'm the guy in trouble. He tried to get me to run into him."
Screaming match
The 6-foot-7, 300-pound Sabathia's anger grew as he walked Alexis Rios to start the seventh. He screamed at Kellogg after one pitch and the umpire took off his mask and yelled back.
Chris Gomez hit a sharp one-hopper back to Sabathia that the left-hander turned into a double play.
After Chris Woodward flied to center to end the inning, Sabathia started running to the dugout and nearly crashed into Kellogg, who was 60 feet up the third-base line.
"Here's what he yelled to me then," Sabathia said, " 'You're all over the place -- inside, outside.' I told him that had nothing to do with it, just call a strike a strike."
Sabathia gave up two runs and five hits, struck out five and walked two to give Cleveland its seventh win in eight games.
Good relief help
Bob Howry pitched the eighth, and Bob Wickman the ninth for his sixth save. Both got out of two-on, two-out jams to preserve the win.
With the score tied at 2, Sizemore drove home Coco Crisp from third base with a sacrifice fly in a sixth-inning rally that included a bizarre sequence.
Crisp hit a one-out single off Kevin Frederick (0-1). Ronnie Belliard then lifted a high pop behind the plate, but threw his bat, hitting Toronto's Kevin Cash as the catcher was removing his mask and turning toward the foul ball.
Belliard then lined a double off right-center wall, but Crisp didn't score because he stumbled near third base and landed face-first on the bag. But he scored easily on Sizemore's liner to left-center.
The Indians missed a chance to add to their lead in the seventh. Travis Hafner drew a one-out walk and Victor Martinez followed with a line double to right-center. Hafner failed to touch the plate, however, and Cash tagged him out after leaping to catch the high relay throw.
Sabathia set down the first 13 he faced until Frank Menechino lined a one-out single to right in the fifth. He later scored on a single by Woodward for a 1-1 tie. That snapped Cleveland's consecutive scoreless innings streak against the Blue Jays at 20.
The Indians went ahead 1-0 in the third on a two-out RBI single by Martinez off Justin Miller.
Lawton connects
Lawton hit his 19th homer with one out in the fifth to put Cleveland back in front 2-1.
Toronto tied it 2-2 on an RBI single by Carlos Delgado in the sixth and had two runners on when Menechino hit a sinking liner to right. But Lawton made a diving catch and tossed to second base to double off Orlando Hudson and end the threat.