Indians walk off against Angels

Pujols still homerless as Los Angeles loses its fifth straight.

Asdrubal Cabrera singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning and the host Cleveland Indians beat the struggling Los Angeles Angels 32 Friday night.

Albert Pujols went 1 for 4 as Los Angeles lost its fifth straight. He is homerless in 20 games since signing a $240 million, 10-year contract to join the Angels — his longest drought to start a season.

Aaron Cunningham opened the ninth against David Carpenter (0-1) by doubling over leaping left fielder Vernon Wells at the wall. Michael Brantley lined out to center before Jason Kipnis singled. Angels shortstop Erick Aybar got a glove on the line drive, slowing the ball down and preventing Cunningham from scoring.

Cabrera hit a 2-0 pitch to right, making the Indians 6-0 in one-run games and the Angels 0-6.

Vinnie Pestano (1-0) struck out the only two batters he faced for the win.

He replaced Justin Masterson after the Indians starter walked Kendrys Morales and Peter Bourjos in the ninth. Pestano fanned Wells and Aybar to keep it tied at 2.

Right fielder Torii Hunter drove in two runs and threw out a runner trying to score for the Angels.

Pujols lined a two-out single in the first and scored on a single to right by Hunter, who was out trying for second.

Despite the hit, it extended Pujols’ homerless drought to a career-worst 109 at-bats. He has not connected since Sept. 22 last year with St. Louis.

Pujols, who on Thursday snapped his career-worst hitless streak at 21 at-bats with a ground single against Tampa Bay, has not homered in 20 games and 80 at-bats in an Angels uniform. He had a 105-atbat drought April 23 to May 23 last year — then rebounded to help the Cardinals win the World Series.

The big first baseman made a good play in the field to keep the game tied in the eighth. With runners on first and third, he ranged far to his right to field a bouncer off the bat of Casey Kotchman and threw to second for the inning-ending force play.

The Indians have their own power outage. Cleveland hasn’t hit a homer in nine games, their longest drought in 21 years. They also went without a homer for nine games in June 1991.

A’s 5, Orioles 2: Brandon Mccarthy won for the first time this season, pitching seven solid innings, and Eric Sogard hit a two-run home run in a threerun second for Oakland.

Oakland has won three straight for the second time this season and moved a game over .500 for the first time since May 18, 2011.

In Mccarthy’s first five starts, the Athletics scored 10 runs.

Mccarthy (1-3) gave up two runs and five hits, walked three and struck out four. Ryan Cook struck out four Orioles in the eighth inning, with Adam Jones reaching on a wild pitch.

Grant Balfour worked the ninth for his sixth save.

Jake Arrieta (1-2) allowed four runs on four hits in 5 ⅔ for Baltimore, which had a four-game winning streak snapped and failed to go six games over .500 for the first time since July 20, 2005. Cann strained his oblique muscle during the 19-inning marathon July 26, went to the disabled list and was not his usual self for the final six weeks of the season.

Both Uggla and Jones’ balls off reliever Evan Meek were to the opposite field too — Uggla’s to right center and Jones’ to left — in keeping with a disciplined approach. The Braves moved to 10-2 in games that Jones has played in this season, and the 40-year-old is hitting .300 (12-for-40 ) with two doubles, three home runs and 12 RBIS in what’s shaping up to be quite the farewell tour.

Martin Prado started the Braves good work at the plate with an RBI single to right in the second inning and the rookie Tyler Pastornicky continued it in the third, working a gamewinning RBI single of his own to right with two strikes on him.

When the team with the most runs in the National League (101 entering the series) faced the team with the league’s second-best ERA (2.58), the runs figured to come at a premium. Tommy Hanson pitched like he understood that, working around six hits and three walks to limit the Pirates to one run in six innings.

Hanson won for the third time in four starts, and lowered his ERA to 3.00, with the help of double plays in the second and fourth innings. He and reliever Kris Medlen benefitted from some dynamic play at second base by Uggla, who made a leaping catch of a line drive to start a double play in the seventh and robbed former Brave Nate Mclouth on a pop-up in the seventh, almost taking out Pastornicky in the process.

Burnett, acquired in the offseason from the Yankees, still throws a fastball in the mid-90s and his stuff is effective, as attested by his eight strikeouts in six innings against the Braves. Burnett had thrown seven shutout innings in his first start with the Pirates on Saturday, after missing the first three weeks with a broken bone in his face.

Prado broke up Burnett’s scoreless streak at nine innings with the game’s first run on a two-out opposite field single to score Pastornicky in the third inning after Pastornicky led off with a walk.

The Pirates tied the game 11 with a run off Hanson in the fourth inning, on back-to-back hits by Andrew Mccutchen and Garrett Jones. They should have had a good deal more. But after loading the bases on backto-back walks, including six consecutive balls from Hanson, Rod Barajas swung at the first pitch and grounded into an inning-ending double play.

After sitting for three games to regroup with his batting average down to .175, Pastornicky has gone 5-for-9 with an RBI and two runs in three games. He scored a run and drove in the game-winner Friday, after Jason Heyward moved into scoring position for him with his seventh stolen base of the season.