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Final Score: Tampa Bay 2 - Cleveland 13

Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - Ben Francisco went 3-for-5 with a career-high four runs batted in, including one of Cleveland's four home runs, as the Indians routed Tampa Bay, 13-2, in the first of four games with the Rays.

Cleveland had lost 10 games in a row, but broke out of its funk in a big way. Casey Blake had two hits, including a solo homer, and three RBI, while David Dellucci hit a two-run shot and Shin-Soo Choo added a solo homer.

The Indians' 14-hit attack was more than enough to back Aaron Laffey (5-5), who gave up just two runs, four hits and three walks while striking out four. It was Laffey's first win since June 12 against Minnesota, and Cleveland had not won any of the four games he started since then.

Andy Sonnanstine (10-4), an Ohio native, took the loss after allowing six runs on nine hits in 5 1/3 frames. He had won his past four decisions and not lost since May 27.

Jonny Gomes hit a two-run homer, but the Rays couldn't push any more runs across. The loss is Tampa Bay's fourth straight, tying a season high.

Gomes smacked his seventh homer of the season in the third inning, as Laffey left a breaking ball up, to give the Rays a 2-0 lead. But a five-run fifth for the Indians swept control of the game away from Tampa Bay.

After Kelly Shoppach singled with one out, Dellucci swatted a high pitch over the right field fence to knot the score. Andy Marte and Grady Sizemore followed with singles to put runners on the corners, and Jamey Carroll plated Marte by grounding into a fielder's choice. Francisco then came up, and he hammered a high breaking ball into the left field seats for a 5-2 Cleveland lead.

Choo's leadoff homer in the sixth put the Indians ahead by four, and Sonnanstine left later that inning in favor of Jason Hammel. The Rays' bullpen kept the game static until the eighth, when Cleveland put the game away by batting around and scoring seven times against Gary Glover.

Blake slugged a leadoff homer to center and Choo followed with a triple. Choo then raced home on Dellucci's run-scoring single.

The Indians later loaded the bases with two outs, and Francisco's single to center brought in two more runs. Jhonny Peralta followed with an RBI single to make it 11-2, and when Blake came up again with two runners in scoring position, he drove them both in with a single to right.

Trever Miller got the Rays out of the inning by striking out Choo, but the damage had been done, and Juan Rincon tossed a scoreless ninth to end the game.