Tribe powers to 10-3 victory

Travis Hafner hit two homers and Cliff Lee got the win over St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Cliff Lee worked six strong innings to keep his perfect interleague record intact and the Cleveland Indians got two home runs from Travis Hafner in a 10-3 victory over the sagging St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.
Jhonny Peralta hit a tiebreaking two-run triple in the fifth for the Indians, who also got homers from Grady Sizemore and Todd Hollandsworth and won for only the fourth time in 13 games. The Cardinals have lost seven in a row for the first time since 2002.
Jason Marquis (9-6) was battered for the second straight start, allowing seven runs in six innings. He gave up three of the homers and has allowed seven in his last two outings to tie for the major league lead with 19.
In the last two games, he has allowed 20 earned runs in 11 innings.
Perfect against NL
Lee (7-5) gave up two runs and eight hits with five strikeouts and two walks and is 6-0 with a 3.27 ERA against the NL, including a victory over the Chicago Cubs in his last start. He's 4-0 with a 3.09 ERA in five June starts, one of the lone bright spots for a team that's only 8-15 this month.
Victor Martinez added two hits and an RBI for the Indians, who snapped a string of 10 straight losses in series openers dating to May 23.
Scott Rolen and So Taguchi each had three hits and an RBI for the Cardinals, who have been outscored 64-27 during an all-interleague losing streak. The NL Central leaders' slump is their worst since July 31-Aug. 7, 2002, and they're coming off their first winless two-city trip since 1997.
They are also 0-5 since Albert Pujols returned from an injury after going 8-7 without him.
Sizemore's 15th homer was a two-run shot in the third for the game's first runs. The Cardinals tied it on RBI singles by Rolen in the third and Taguchi in the fourth before the Indians took control.
Peralta's two-run triple off the right-field wall made it 4-2 and Hafner followed with his 20th homer. Hollandsworth led off the sixth with his third for a 7-2 cushion and Hafner hit his second in the ninth to make it 10-3.
Notes
Sizemore was thrown out trying to steal in the first by C Yadier Molina, then walked and stole second in the seventh. Molina is 10-for-25 against base stealers on the year and Sizemore has 13 steals in 15 attempts. ... Lee induced three foul outs to C Martinez and could have had a fourth, but Martinez dropped David Eckstein's pop-up near the plate for an error in the sixth. ... The Cardinals are 43-23 at home in interleague play, but 2-5 against the Indians at home and 3-9 overall against Cleveland.
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