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Friday, May 5 7:05pm ET
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TORONTO (AP) -- Paul Shuey's great stuff made no difference for the Cleveland Indians. Darrin Fletcher hit a game-winning single off Shuey in the ninth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays won a wild one, sending the Indians to their sixth straight loss, 11-10 Friday night.
"I had the edge, but things just didn't fall into place," Shuey said. Toronto rallied three times after trailing 3-1, 8-4 and 10-9, while Cleveland came back twice after falling behind 4-3 and 9-8. "There were a lot of hits, a lot of lead changes and we went through a lot of pitchers," Fletcher said. Jose Cruz's two-run homer off Tom Martin in the sixth, his 11th of the season, put Toronto ahead 9-8, but Jim Thome regained the lead with a two-run homer in the seventh off Lance Painter. Gonzalez tied it at 10 with a one-out homer in the eighth off Shuey. Brad Fullmer then reached with a two-out, broken-bat single in the ninth and Fletcher lined a ball down the left-field line, giving the Blue Jays the 1,800th win in franchise history. "Paul throws hard, and he can easily get a guy out with three different pitches," Fletcher said. "I just put the bat head on it." Billy Koch (2-0), the Blue Jays' sixth pitcher, got the final out in the ninth. Cleveland's Einar Diaz had a career-high five hits, going 5-for-5. The Indians, who are near the bottom of the American League in nearly every major offensive category, had 20 hits. "Hopefully, it will carry on into tomorrow," Indians interim manager Grady Little said. To get the Indians out of their hitting slump, Little changed the lineup by moving Roberto Alomar to lead leadoff spot and David Justice to the No. 3 hole for the first time this season. Justice responded with a three-run double that put Cleveland ahead in the second. Fletcher hit a solo homer in the second and Raul Mondesi gave the Blue Jays a 4-3 lead in the third with a three-run homer off the restaurant in center field. But the Indians scored five runs in the fourth on Manny Ramirez's two-run homer off Roy Halladay, Einar Diaz's two-run double and Jolbert Cabrera's RBI single. Cruz hit an RBI double in the fourth, and Carlos Delgado had a two-run homer in the fifth off the top of the center-field restaurant.
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