Victor Martinez has two-run double in ninth for Indians in 2-1 win over Blue Jays

Martinez has two-run double in ninth for Indians

TORONTO — Victor Martinez hit a two-run double in the ninth inning and Cliff Lee pitched his second straight complete game, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 2-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night that snapped a four-game skid.

Cleveland trailed heading into the ninth against Blue Jays closer Scott Downs but took the lead thanks to a rare Toronto error.

Pinch-hitter Ryan Garko reached on an infield single and was replaced by pinch-runner Luis Valbuena. Grady Sizemore bunted to first but Lyle Overbay’s throw sailed into the outfield, putting runners at second and third. The error was Toronto’s major league-low 33rd.

Downs (1-1) walked Asdrubal Cabrera intentionally and Valbuena was forced out at home on Shin-Soo Choo’s grounder but Martinez followed with a two-run double that landed just inside the left-field foul line. The Indians won for just the fourth time in 12 games.

The late rally made a winner of left-hander Cliff Lee (6-9), who had his third complete game of the season. The only run he allowed came on Scott Rolen’s seventh-inning homer.

Lee, last season’s AL Cy Young Award winner, allowed seven hits, walked none and struck out four.

The blown save, Downs’ second, spoiled a fine start by rookie left-hander Brett Cecil, who struck out a career-high nine over seven innings. Cecil allowed seven hits and walked four.

The Indians had at least two base runners in each of the first four innings but could not break through against Cecil. Cleveland loaded the bases in the fourth but Choo grounded into a double play to end the threat.

That was the first of nine straight outs by Cecil, a run that ended with Choo’s infield single in the seventh. Martinez followed with a double down the line in left but Cecil escaped again when Travis Hafner grounded out.

Besides Rolen’s homer, his seventh, Toronto struggled to get anything going against Lee. The Blue Jays got leadoff doubles from Kevin Millar in the third and Hill in the fourth but failed to advance either runner.

Vernon Wells returned to Toronto’s lineup after missing the past three games with an illness. He batted third and went 0 for 4.

NOTES: Hill snapped an 0 for 19 streak with a single in the first. … Indians manager Eric Wedge said LHP David Huff will start Thursday’s series finale against Toronto LHP Marc Rzepczynski. … Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi has set a July 28 deadline to trade RHP Roy Halladay. Ricciardi said he has “a gut feeling” that Halladay will not be dealt before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. … Blue Jays RHP Shaun Marcum (elbow) allowed five runs, one earned, and five hits in three innings in a rehab start at Double-A New Hampshire, his fourth. He walked none and struck out four.