CLEVELAND -- Aaron Laffey allowed one run over six-plus innings and the Cleveland Indians beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 on Wednesday night for their fourth straight win.
Laffey (1-2), who gave up five hits and struck out five, was 0-8 in nine starts and 29 appearances at the major league level since beating Minnesota last Aug. 16. It was the left-hander's second start since being recalled from the minors on Saturday. He was optioned to triple-A Columbus on May 30.
Matt LaPorta and Shin-Soo Choo hit solo home runs for Cleveland, which matched its longest win streak of the season following a season-worst seven-game losing streak. The Indians will seek their first four-game home sweep since May 25-28, 2009, against Tampa Bay, when they host the Blue Jays on Thursday.
Toronto has lost four straight, eight of 10 overall and is 3-11 in its last 14 road games.
Chris Perez pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save in 10 chances. He closed in place of Kerry Wood, who had three saves in three days.
Choo put Cleveland ahead 1-0 with a 422-foot home run off Jesse Litsch (0-3) with one out in the first. It was Choo's fifth homer in his last eight games and 13th of the season.
LaPorta's second homer in two nights, off reliever Shawn Camp in the seventh, made it 3-1.
Carlos Santana had an RBI single in the sixth inning for Cleveland.
Toronto loaded the bases in the fifth on a two-out double by Aaron Hill and two walks. Laffey got out of the jam by striking out Fred Lewis.
John Buck singled to open the seventh. Buck was running when Lyle Overbay hit a line drive off the glove of a leaping LaPorta at first base for his 1,000th career hit. The single put Blue Jays on first and third and finished Laffey.
Reliever Frank Herrmann got Hill to pop out to second on the first pitch. Nick Green then grounded a single up the middle to score Buck, cutting Cleveland's lead to 2-1. Shortstop Jason Donald smothered the ball with a dive, but could not get an out.
Herrmann ended the threat by striking out pinch-hitter Adam Lind and Lewis, who fouled off five consecutive pitches before finally being retired. Lind's out dropped him into a 2-for-20 (.100) slump.
Litsch gave up two runs and four hits over six innings. The right-hander has been inconsistent in four starts since returning June 13, a year and one day after having Tommy John surgery. After throwing seven innings in a 3-0 victory over San Francisco on June 19, he allowed six runs and walked four in four innings of a 9-0 loss to Philadelphia on Saturday.
NOTES: Toronto manager Cito Gaston moved Buck up to fifth in the lineup and dropped Hill to seventh, using the 2B as the DH. Hill went 1 for 4 and has hit only .139 (5 of 36) in his last 10 games. ... Toronto leads the majors with 115 homers, but has none in three games. ... LaPorta is 4 for 9 in the series and 6 for 15 against the Blue Jays this season. ... Cleveland has homered in 18 of its last 23 games.
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