Peralta's home run in 10th does the job in 3-2 win over Toronto



Cleveland is 4-3 in extra inning games this season.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Jhonny Peralta hit a two-out homer off closer B.J. Ryan in the 10th inning Wednesday night to give the Cleveland Indians a 3-2 win over Toronto and a three-game sweep of the Blue Jays.
Travis Hafner's second homer of the game and 42nd of the season for Cleveland tied it at 2 in the eighth against Jeremy Accardo.
Peralta lined a 2-1 pitch from Ryan (1-2) into a strong wind and over the wall in right field for his 12th homer, handing Toronto its first loss in seven extra-inning games this season.
Rafael Betancourt (3-4) pitched two scoreless innings for the win as Cleveland improved to 16-5 since Aug. 9. Cleveland is 4-3 in extra innings.
Opportunity snuffed
The Indians had loaded the bases with one out in the ninth against Brandon League. Ryan came on to strike out Hafner and get Victor Martinez on a flyout to force extra innings.
Hafner's fourth multihomer game this season and 12th of his career gave him 116 RBIs, including 109 as the designated hitter. That ties the club record for a DH set by Andre Thornton in 1982.
Toronto rookie Shaun Marcum allowed one run and four hits over 6 1-3 innings, walking five and striking out four in his ninth career start. The 24-year-old right-hander snapped a three-game losing streak Friday by giving up only one run over six hits in a win over Kansas City.
Indians starter Jeremy Sowers allowed two runs and six hits over 52/3 innings.
The left-hander is 5-0 with a 1.72 ERA in eight starts since July 22, when he pitched the first of consecutive shutouts.
Sowers began the season by going 9-1 with a 1.39 ERA at Triple-A Buffalo and has pitched a combined 1732/3 innings. Last week, Indians general manager Mark Shapiro said the team intends to curtail the 23-year-old's workload in September to protect the sixth overall pick in the 2004 draft.
Hafner put Cleveland ahead in the third inning with a 390-foot line shot into the Blue Jays' bullpen in right.
The Blue Jays went ahead in the sixth on RBI singles by Bengie Molina and Alex Rios, who broke an 0-for-18 streak with a two-out single just out of the reach of Peralta at shortstop.
Notes
The Indians have won nine of the past 10 meetings with the Blue Jays at Jacobs Field and 12 of the past 14 overall. ... Toronto OF Reed Johnson went 0-for-4, snapping an eight-game hitting streak in which he had gone 13-for-32 (.406). ... Vernon Wells went 2-for-3 against Sowers and is batting .357 (46-for-129) against lefties overall. ... Marcum came in 0-3 with a 9.26 ERA in eight games, including four starts, on the road. ... Cleveland RHP Fernando Cabrera worked 21/3 scoreless innings and has not allowed an earned run in 102/3 innings since Aug. 11.