Cabrera homers, Sowers pitches 7 scoreless to lead Indians past Mariners 10-3

Cabrera and Indians beat Mariners 10-3

SEATTLE — Asdrubal Cabrera homered, drove in two runs and scored three times to back a strong start by Jeremy Sowers in the Cleveland Indians’ 10-3 victory over Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

Sowers (3-7), recalled from Triple-A before the game, held the Mariners scoreless over seven innings, allowing only four hits in his best outing of the season.

Erik Bedard (5-3) endured his shortest start of the season for the Mariners. The left-hander went three innings, allowing two runs on two hits and four walks. He struck out six. It was his shortest outing since going three innings against Atlanta on June 20, 2008, two starts before landing on the disabled list for the rest of the year.

He walked the bases loaded in the third before Jhonny Peralta singled to score Cabrera and Ben Francisco and make it 2-0.

Chris Jakubauskas relieved Bedard but he wasn’t able to quiet the Indians.

Ryan Garko singled before Chris Gimenez hit the first pitch he saw over the left-field wall to push the lead to four.

Victor Martinez singled home Cabrera, and Peralta followed with an RBI single to make it a four-run fourth inning and a 6-0 game.

Cabrera hit a two-run homer, his third of the season, in the fifth off Jakubauskas.

Jakubauskas then drilled Francisco on the next pitch. Francisco shouted at Jakubauskas and Mariners catcher Rob Johnson held him back as both benches and bullpens cleared.

Francisco ended up taking first base without incident as the umpires didn’t even let the bullpens reach the infield before sending them back to their place beyond the left field wall.

In the ninth inning, Indians reliever Winstron Abreu hit Jack Hannahan with the first pitch of the inning. Abreu was promptly thrown out of the game by home plate umpire Dale Scott. Indians manager Eric Wedge came out to argue the call and was also ejected from the game.

Garrett Olson replaced Jakubauskas and gave up a two-run home run to Garko in the top of the sixth inning.

In the bottom of the ninth, Johnson hit an RBI ground-rule double, Cedeno drove in a run with a groundout and Ichiro Suzuki doubled and scored on a double by Russell Branyan.

NOTES: OF Michael Saunders made his major league debut for the Mariners after being called up from Triple-A Tacoma earlier in the day. Saunders was 0 for 4 in his debut after RF Chris Gimenez robbed him of a home run in the ninth inning. To make room, OF Wladimir Balentien was designated for assignment … Wakamatsu said that 3B Adrian Beltre (shoulder) would begin hitting off a tee either Monday or Tuesday. Beltre had bone spurs removed from his left non-throwing shoulder on June 30. … OF Grady Sizemore had the day off as he continues to fight through left elbow inflammation that has plagued him most of the season.