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 CLEVELAND (AP) - C.C. Sabathia's pager was inundated all day with text messages from trash-talking friends back in California. They were telling him that he was going to lose to the Oakland Athletics again. He sent them a nasty reply.
Sabathia joined Boston's Josh Beckett as the majors' only 11-game winners and finally beat his hometown team again, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 5-2 victory over the Athletics on Monday night.
Sabathia (11-2) allowed nine hits in his second complete game this month to improve to 2-5 in 12 career starts against the A's, the team he pulled for as a kid growing up in Vallejo, Calif.
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