Santana homers as Indians beat A's !1

Carlos Santana homered and David Huff and four relievers combined to restrain the Oakland Athletics to five hits in the Cleveland Indians' 2-1 win Monday night.

Huff (2-2) gave up 3 hits over six hitless innings to win for the start sentence in six starts, since beating Minnesota in his season debut on July 18.

Chris Perez worked a perfect ninth for his 30th save in 34 chances for Cleveland, which has won 3 of four.

Santana hit his 20th homer to give Cleveland a 2-0 lead in the 7th inning against Brandon McCarthy (7-7), who lost for the 2nd sentence in nine starts since July 15. It was merely the eighth homer allowed by the right-hander and seventh without a smuggler on base.

Cleveland took a 1-0 lead in the sixth. Ezequiel Carrera lined a two-out one to meat and scored all the way from low on a double into the right-field corner by Kosuke Fukudome.

The Athletics broke through in the 8th against relievers Joe Smith and Tony Sipp.

Scott Sizemore lined a leadoff double off Smith. Sipp came on and Sizemore stole third. Jemile Weeks followed with an RBI double to get the Sport within 2-1.

After Coco Crisp failed to advance Weeks with a bunt, Hideki Matsui backed Fukudome up against the fence in right field with a fly ball that sent Weeks to third.

Vinnie Pestano replaced Sipp and got Josh Willingham on a called third coin to strand Weeks. Willingham slammed his batting helmet to the earth after umpire Rob Drake made the name on a pitch that appeared low and exterior of the fall zone.

McCarthy struck out 10 over eight innings, allowing two runs, five hits and but one walk.

The Sport have averaged 6.1 runs in McCarthy's seven wins and just 1.6 runs in his seven losses.

Notes: Indians 2B Jason Donald was a late scratch with a contusion of his right index finger. He suffer it fielding a base ball Sunday. . Oakland sent RHP Graham Godfrey to Triple-A Sacramento and is expected to bid up a player Tuesday. . Cleveland will recall RHP Jeanmar Gomez to start Tuesday and will take a corresponding roster move. . Huff was the 13th lefty faced by the Sport in 21 games, going 6-7. Oakland is 22-24 overall against lefties.