Athletics snap losing skid by pummeling Carmona

The Indians fell behind 9-0 in Wednesday’s 13-7 loss at rainy Jacobs Field.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Jack Cust had a career-high five RBIs, Shannon Stewart finished with four hits and the Oakland Athletics beat the Cleveland Indians 13-7 Wednesday night to snap a five-game losing streak.

Cust hit a three-run homer and Stewart had a two-run drive for the A’s, who finally broke out offensively. Oakland pounded Fausto Carmona (8-4) for eight runs in building a 9-0 lead in the second inning. The A’s totaled 10 runs during their season-worst skid.

Franklin Gutierrez hit a three-run homer and Jhonny Peralta, Casey Blake and Travis Hafner had solo drives for Cleveland, which tried to trump its five-run ninth inning that won Tuesday night’s game.

DiNardo wins

Lenny DiNardo (3-4) won for the first time in four starts, allowing two runs and five hits in five innings. The left-hander used an assortment of slow breaking pitches to slow the Indians, who had scored 13 runs in winning the first two games of the four-game series.

Gutierrez hit a three-run homer in the sixth. Blake led off the seventh with his 100th career homer and Hafner connected with one out to make it 11-7.

Rookie Santiago Casilla shut out the Indians over the final two innings. The right-hander has allowed only one earned run in 15 2/3 innings since being called up from Triple-A Sacramento on June 3.

Carmona, who was 7-1 on June 7 after winning seven straight decisions, lost consecutive starts for the first time this season. The right-hander didn’t get any outs in the second inning and lost for the third time in four decisions.