ATLANTA Davis leads Indians' 5-2 win over Braves

Jason Davis earned the mound win and slugged his first major league homer.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Jason Davis rooted for the Braves while growing up in Chattanooga, Tenn. -- about two hours from Atlanta.
Now, he has a new favorite memory in the Braves' home park.
Davis threw seven solid innings to win for the first time in almost seven weeks, and also hit his first major league home run, leading the Cleveland Indians over the slumping Braves 5-2 on Sunday.
Davis, who lives in Cleveland, Tenn., in the off-season, said there are still a lot of Braves fans in his hometown who were closely watching the game.
"I had almost 100 people here, so I didn't want to strike out," Davis said. "I didn't want them to have anything on me when I go back home."
Davis said his late grandfather "was the biggest Braves fan ever," so he planned to give the ball he hit for his first home run to his grandmother.
Reeling Braves
While Davis celebrated his day to remember, the reeling Braves suffered a day like far too many in recent weeks.
The Braves have lost eight of 12 games and four consecutive series. With Sunday's loss, they again matched their low point of the season at four games below .500.
Davis and relievers David Riske and Jose Jimenez combined to hold the Braves to four hits. In Friday night's series opener, the Braves managed only six hits against Cliff Lee and three relievers.
"We're capable of hitting a lot better than this team is hitting right now," Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "Five and four hits a game aren't going to cut it."
Davis (2-5) gave up four hits and two runs in seven innings while winning for the first time since May 4.
Dominant
Before Sunday, he had only two wins in his last 25 starts since July 1, 2002. Against the Braves, however, Davis was dominant while retiring the side in order in three of the first four innings.
The Braves' only runs came on back-to-back home runs by J.D. Drew and Chipper Jones in the sixth.
For most of the game, however, the 6-foot-6 Davis looked even bigger as he kept the Braves guessing.
"You see a guy 6-foot-8, you read the scouting report that says he throws 95 miles an hour, you've got to respect 95 miles an hour," Jones said. "He came out and threw a lot of splitters. ... We just didn't do a good enough job of laying off the off-speed stuff to get him into hitters' counts."
Cleveland manager Eric Wedge said Davis has a tendency to overthrow but "had command of his body" against the Braves.
"He's come a long way," Wedge said.
Jimenez pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save in 10 chances.
Crisp sparkles
Coco Crisp reached base in his first four plate appearances for the Indians, going 3-for-4 with a walk, three stolen bases and three runs scored.
"I'm battling for a job," said Crisp, who has seen more consistent playing time in center field since Alex Escobar was demoted to Triple-A Buffalo on June 12.
"I wanted to get in there and show them what I could do in the limited time I had," Crisp said.
Crisp is hitting .370 (20-for-54) in June and has a nine-game hitting streak.
Davis had been hitless in four career at-bats before drilling a first-pitch fastball from Russ Ortiz (6-6) over the left-field wall in his first at-bat in the second inning.
"I think it was a mistake; it was a little up," Davis said. "I had to act like a professional, like I had done it before."
Run-scoring singles by Victor Martinez and Casey Blake gave Cleveland a 2-0 lead off Ortiz in the first.
Davis connects
Davis' homer in the second made it 3-0. The Indians got another run in the third when Crisp doubled to left and scored on a single by Travis Hafner.
Before the sixth-inning homers by Drew and Jones, Eli Marrero had the Braves' only two hits -- singles in the third and fifth innings.
Facing the Indians for the first time in his career, Ortiz gave up nine hits and five runs in 61/3 innings.
Ortiz was pulled after giving up a one-out single to Crisp in the seventh. After Crisp stole second base, Cox ordered an intentional walk to Martinez for the second time in the game. Blake followed with an RBI single to center for a 5-2 lead.
Ortiz, 4-1 with a 2.41 ERA in May, is 0-2 with a 5.33 ERA in four June starts.