Orioles sink Tribe to split series

CLEVELAND (AP) — Lou Montanez hit a tie-breaking double during an eight-run eighth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles went on to beat the Cleveland Indians 11-6 Thursday night and split their four-game series.

The Orioles sent 13 men to bat in the eighth, getting six hits and three walks in their largest inning of the season. Baltimore has scored 55 runs in its last seven games.

Kevin Millar singled to center off Rafael Perez (2-3) to start the scoring. Third baseman Andy Marte then mishandled a sharp grounder off the bat of Jay Payton for an error, and Montanez doubled off the wall in right-center to score Millar.

Juan Castro lined a two-run single and Melvin Mora an RBI double to make it 7-3. Edward Mujica walked Ramon Hernandez with the bases loaded, Millar lined a two-run single and Montanez finished the scoring with an RBI single.

Fernando Cabrera (1-1) worked a perfect seventh for his first win since April 25, 2007, when he was with Cleveland. He signed with Baltimore last August after being released by the Indians.

Zach Jackson, one of four players acquired by Cleveland in the July 7 trade of CC Sabathia to Milwaukee, didn’t get much defensive help in his Indians debut. A missed grounder and a ball lost in the twilight contributed to two of the three runs he allowed over five innings.

The left-hander gave up four hits and two runs in the first. With runners on second and third, Aubrey Huff got an RBI on a grounder that second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera couldn’t handle near the bag for an error. Hernandez’s single to left made it 2-0.

Shin-Soo Choo’s two-run double with two outs in the bottom half off Daniel Cabrera tied it.

Daniel Cabrera, who leads the AL in walks (73), wild pitches (14) and hit batters (17) plunked Grady Sizemore in the right knee in the second and drilled Jhonny Peralta in the left hand in the third. Peralta kept playing, then was lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh and taken to a hospital for examination.

Baltimore went ahead 3-2 on consecutive ground-rule doubles with two outs in the fifth.