Pavano leads Indians to 5-4 win over Tigers

Pavano leads Indians to 5-4 win over Tigers

DETROIT — Carl Pavano allowed two runs in eight innings, Travis Hafner drove in a pair, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Detroit Tigers 5-4 Saturday night.

Pavano left with a three-run lead, but Kerry Wood gave up a two-run homer to Miguel Cabrera before retiring the next three batters for his 12th save.

Cleveland won for just the seventh time in 25 games, while the Tigers had their three-game winning streak snapped.

Pavano (8-7) was aided by three double plays in the first four innings, including a strikeout-caught stealing version to end the fourth. He allowed seven hits with six strikeouts and no walks.

Armando Galarraga (5-8) took the loss, his first since June 13. He gave up four runs and nine hits in six-plus innings.

Cleveland took a 1-0 lead in the first on a pair of singles before a sacrifice fly by Victor Martinez, but Detroit took a 2-1 advantage in the second on Ryan Raburn’s RBI triple and a run-scoring single by Brandon Inge.

The Indians, though, took the lead for good with a two-out rally in the third. Grady Sizemore tripled, and after walks to Martinez and Shin-Soo Choo loaded the bases, Hafner hit a two-run single.

Cleveland added an insurance run in the seventh on Asdrubal Cabrera’s RBI single, and another in the eighth on doubles by Choo and Jhonny Peralta.

NOTES: Detroit OF Carlos Guillen, sidelined since May 5 with a shoulder injury, will begin a rehab assignment Monday with Single-A Lakeland. … As part of Negro Leagues Weekend, the Tigers wore uniforms based on the 1919 Detroit Stars, while the Indians were dressed as the 1948 Cleveland Buckeyes. The teams never faced each other, as the Stars had folded several years before the Buckeyes were formed. … Cleveland had lost six straight to Detroit.