CLEVELAND -Although Roy Halladay wasn't satisfied with his performance yesterday, the Toronto Blue Jays will take one like it every time.
Halladay pitched 7 2-3 superb innings and Vernon Wells hit a three-run homer as the Blue Jays avoided a three-game series sweep with a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
Halladay (6-2) allowed five singles and used his fastball along with a few nasty breaking pitches to get 14 outs on grounders. He walked three and struck out six in improving to 4-0 in eight career starts against Cleveland.
Still, he wasn't pleased with the outing and almost sounded disappointed afterward.
I had some trouble executing my sinker
he said. It was hard to tell if I was just missing or it was running away. I missed my spots but I was able to battle.
The Indians weren't nearly as critical.
Everything he throws seems like it moves said Indians first baseman Ben Broussard, who went 0-for-3. You keep waiting for him to make a mistake but he doesn't make many. We got close a couple of times
but we couldn't get a run over when we really needed to.
Wells' shot in the eighth inning off C.C. Sabathia (2-3) broke open a tight game between Halladay and the Indians' ace. Alex Rios hit a solo homer in the third as the Blue Jays snapped a seven-game losing streak against Cleveland.
Toronto was in danger of being swept for the fourth time this season. However, Halladay had little trouble with the light-hitting Indians, who remain stuck in an early season offensive rut.
Sabathia, who dropped his third straight start, was still in it until giving up the homer to Wells in the eighth.
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