Longoria and Rays rough up Tribe

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05/18/2010 - St. Petersburg, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Evan Longoria tripled and doubled to knock in three runs and David Price gave up a single unearned run in six innings of work, as Tampa Bay earned a short two-game sweep of Cleveland by way of a 6-2 decision.

Price (6-1) struck out five, walked three and gave up four hits. A Carlos Pena error set up the lone run he allowed on a Shin-Soo Choo groundout. The emerging left-hander has won three straight starts and is unbeaten in his last five trips to the mound (4-0).

Pena and Jason Bartlett added two hits, and an RBI each for the Rays, who have won four in a row and six of seven contests overall to hold down the best record in baseball at 28-11.

David Huff (1-6) went five-plus innings and was charged with three runs on seven hits. The lefty has now dropped his last five starts, but did halt a streak of at least four earned runs allowed over that span.

Jason Donald had a pair of hits, walked and scored a run in his major-league debut after being recalled from Triple-A Columbus prior to the game.

Travis Hafner added a late run-scoring double for the Indians, who have lost four of their last six games and possibly starting shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera for an extended period.

He will be examined in Baltimore on Wednesday to see if surgery is needed to repair the broken left forearm he suffered in Monday's loss.

Both sides traded runs over the first five innings with Longoria's RBI double in the third and Choo's grounder two innings later. Huff then ran into trouble in the sixth, where the Rays posted a four-run inning.

B.J. Upton led off with a double and Huff plunked Gabe Kapler with a pitch before giving way to Hector Ambriz. Dioner Navarro laid down a successful sacrifice bunt to move both runners into scoring position and Reid Brignac scored one with a pinch-hit grounder to short.

Bartlett punched a single into left field to score another and Ben Zobrist's base hit left runners at the corners for Longoria, whose triple made it 5-1.

Grant Balfour was touched for back-to-back doubles by Jhonny Peralta and Hafner in the eighth, but the Rays' pen otherwise took care of business from there. Pena added an RBI single in the home eighth to account for the final margin.

Game Notes

Donald was part of the trade that sent Cliff Lee to Philadelphia last July...Primarily used at shortstop, Donald was hitting .277 with 10 doubles, two triples, two home runs, 27 runs scored and 17 RBI in 37 games for Columbus this year. He added 10 steals on 12 attempts...The Indians managed just six hits and stranded 10 runners...Tampa Bay left 12 men on base and was 4-for-15 with runners in scoring position...Zobrist collected two hits, scored twice and walked once.

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