Cleveland pounds out eight extra-base hits while topping Boston.

BOSTON – Ben Broussard hit two of Cleveland’s eight doubles, and the Indians snapped a five-game losing streak with a 10-6 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night.

Ronnie Belliard had two hits to raise his AL-leading batting average to .383, and scored a pair of runs for Cleveland. Chad Durbin (3-3) earned the victory after starter Jeff D’Amico gave up four runs in just 2 2-3 innings. Durbin allowed one run on one hit, walked two and struck out three in 2 1-3 innings.

Byung-Hyun Kim (1-1) allowed six runs – four earned – on five hits and three walks in 3 1-3 innings.

The Indians hit the ball off the Green Monster three times in the first inning to take a 2-0 lead. After Boston tied it, Cleveland scored two runs in the second on a passed ball by Jason Varitek.

Varitek and Brian Daubach hit solo homers, and Johnny Damon had three singles for the Red Sox, who lost their second in a row. Matt Lawton hit a leadoff double off the Green Monster to open the game, then scored two outs later on Victor Martinez’s double. Travis Hafner singled off the Monster to score Martinez, but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double to end the inning. Damon singled to open the first for Boston and scored on Mark Bellhorn’s triple. Bellhorn scored to make it 2-2 when David Ortiz singled, but D’Amico got the next three batters to escape further damage.

Broussard doubled with one out in the second, Lou Merloni walked and they both moved up on Coco Crisp’s groundout. With Lawton batting, Kim crossed up Varitek and the ball went to the backstop. Varitek had trouble finding it and both runners scored.

Lawton walked, but was picked off to end the inning.

Cleveland took the lead for good in the fourth when Belliard doubled, Broussard was hit by a pitch and Merloni walked to load the bases. Crisp singled in one run and Lawton’s sacrifice fly scored another to make it 6-4.

Belliard singled and scored in the sixth to make it 7-5. The Indians added two runs in the seventh on an RBI double by Hafner and Broussard’s run-scoring single.

After Varitek’s homer made it 9-6, Martinez added an RBI single in the ninth.

Notes: OF Manny Ramirez missed his first start of the season because he was being sworn in as a U.S. citizen in Miami. General manager Theo Epstein said the team was notified in advance and Ramirez was given permission to miss the game. … Millar left after fouling a ball off his foot in the seventh. … The Red Sox will bring right-handed prospect Eric Glaser from Double-A Portland to Fenway on Tuesday to pitch to SS Nomar Garciaparra, who has yet to play this season because of tendinitis in his right Achilles’ tendon. … Boston first-base coach Lynn Jones underwent eye surgery Monday at the Cleveland Clinic. He injured himself working with a screwdriver last week. … Indians 3B Casey Blake is day-to-day with a strained right hamstring. Merloni will fill in while Blake heals.

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