Sabathia delivers in Cleveland's 2-0 win

The left-hander threw 75 of his 105 pitches for strikes in Cleveland's 2-0 win.
SEATTLE (AP) -- When C.C. Sabathia pitches with power and precision, the highest-scoring offense in the major leagues doesn't need very many hits to win.
Sabathia won his second straight start since coming off the disabled list, scattering seven hits over eight innings and leading the Cleveland Indians over the Seattle Mariners 2-0 Sunday.
The bulky left-hander, forced out of the season opener by a strained oblique muscle, beat the Chicago White Sox 7-1 Tuesday in his first game back. Against Seattle, his fastball reached 97 mph on the ballpark's radar gun, but his efficiency was equally impressive.
Four strikeouts
Sabathia (2-0) struck out four and walked none, throwing 75 of his 105 pitches to catcher Victor Martinez for strikes.
"He pitched smart. I was really impressed with the way C.C. and Victor worked together," Cleveland manager Eric Wedge said.
Sabathia won nine of his final 10 decisions last year, compiling a 2.24 ERA. About that time, Sabathia accepted that he couldn't overpower every hitter and needed both speed and pitch placement to be successful.
He referenced a 2-1 fastball he threw to Seattle's Adrian Beltre Sunday. It was only 91 mph, but the positioning was perfect and Beltre weakly grounded out.
Wickman gets save
Bob Wickman pitched the ninth for a sixth save, allowing one-out singles by Carl Everett and Beltre before inducing Kenji Johjima to ground into a double play. It was Wickman's 130th save with the Indians, moving him past Doug Jones and into first place in franchise history.
Cleveland had just four hits, and Martinez saw his streak of reaching base end at 45 games dating to Sept. 17.
Martinez fouled out in the first, grounded out to shortstop in the fourth, popped out to short in the seventh and flied out in the ninth. It was the longest streak since Jim Edmonds' 47-game run in 2004.
Jarrod Washburn (2-5) allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings. He retired the first six batters before Ronnie Belliard's infield single leading off the third, a ball that bounced just high enough off the plate for Belliard to beat Beltre's throw from third. Belliard moved to third on Casey Blake's single and scored on Grady Sizemore's sacrifice fly.
Belliard doubled past Beltre with two outs in the seventh to score Travis Hafner from first.
Seattle's best scoring chance came in the fifth, when Johjima singled leading off and Jose Lopez followed with a soft, broken-bat single to center. Johjima advanced to third, but Lopez rounded first too far and was thrown out as he tried to get back to the base.
Sabathia then struck out Yuniesky Betancourt on a 97 mph fastball and got Ichiro Suzuki to ground weakly to shortstop. Suzuki singled in his first two plate appearances and is a .429 hitter (15-for-35) against Sabathia.
"That was probably the biggest point in the game," Sabathia said. "He does pretty good against me, so it was good to get him out."