CLEVELAND Betancourt savior, mows down Manny

Boston scored four runs in the ninth, but came up short to lose its fifth straight.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Manny Ramirez's final strut was back to Boston's dugout.
Ramirez hit a 459-foot homer in the sixth inning but struck out with the tying run on in the ninth Tuesday night as the Red Sox lost their fifth straight, 7-6 to the Cleveland Indians.
Boston, which had started the season 15-6, hadn't been 0-5 in May since 1976.
"Last week at this time, people were talking about how awesome we were," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said.
Rafael Betancourt fanned Ramirez for the final out to earn his second save in two days as the Indians held on for their fourth win in a row, highlighted by Jason Davis (1-2) and Ramirez jawing at each other.
After Ramirez connected for his sixth homer -- a drive that landed five rows from the top of the left-field bleachers -- to make it 7-2, he and Boston's bench yelled at Davis, who was apparently upset with Ramirez for posing to watch the ball's flight.
"He's earned the right to do that," Boston center fielder Johnny Damon said. "It wasn't like it just cleared the wall. The ball was crushed. He has 354 career home runs, he can pimp. I hope to see Manny pimp a lot more this season."
No comment
Ramirez wasn't available for comment. Davis was, but the right-hander chose his words carefully when discussing his on-field conversation with Ramirez.
"I'd rather not talk about it," said Davis, who walked down off the mound to challenge Ramirez. "I don't worry about stuff like that."
It was just Davis' second win in his last 17 starts, but he had to survive yet another hair-raising ninth by Cleveland's shaky bullpen to get it.
The Red Sox played poorly until rallying for four runs in the ninth off Japanese rookie Kazuhito Tadano, who gave up a three-run homer to Johnny Damon on a pitch he wasn't even supposed to throw.
With one out and two on, and the left-handed hitting Damon coming up, the Indians needed to buy some time to get lefty Scott Stewart ready in the bullpen.
Manager Eric Wedge signaled for catcher Victor Martinez to have Tadano throw over to first, but Martinez missed the sign and Damon drove the reliever's first pitch over the wall in right.
"There was a miscommunication," Wedge said. "We had a young catcher and a Japanese pitcher and the worst-case scenario happened there. That can't happen again."
Final outs
Scott Stewart came on and got the second out before Betancourt, the Indians' current closer, struck out Ramirez for his second save -- and second in two nights.
Third baseman Bill Mueller's two throwing errors allowed the Indians to score five unearned runs in the fourth off Derek Lowe (3-2), who gave up just two earned runs but a season-high 10 hits in five-plus innings.