AL RECAP (CLEVELAND-DETROIT) CLEVELAND (Ticker) -- Even light-hitting Omar Vizquel has caught baseball's grand slam bug. Vizquel, a slick-field shortstop without a power bat, belted a game-winning grand slam off closer Todd Jones with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Cleveland Indians a 7-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers appeared headed for a three-game sweep in Cleveland until reaching Jones (0-1) for five runs in the ninth. Jones had converted 16 straight save chances but could not protect a 4-2 lead as the Tigers lost for the first time in 20 games this season when leading after eight innings. "Omar can handle the bat and I'm not a pinpoint control guy," Jones said. "He battles me pretty hard. I thought he was going to left field and he thought about driving the ball." Travis Fryman, David Justice and Richie Sexson singled to start the ninth, cutting the deficit to 4-3. Pinch hitter Jim Thome walked to load the bases and Kenny Lofton erased the lead runner with a 5-2 forceout. Vizquel then hit a 2-1 pitch over the wall in right-center field for his third career slam. "It's a great feeling. You never want to get to home plate. You want to keep running all day," said Vizquel, who slid into home amidst a mob of teammates. "I wanted to keep the ball out of the infield. I wanted to drive it and try to hit a sacrifice fly. When I saw (Bobby) Higgingson go back and stop, I knew it was out." The 397-foot shot was just the 31st homer in 1,349 career games for the 5-9, 170-pound Vizquel and completed a 3-for-5 effort. His last grand slam was June 18, 1996 against the Boston Red Sox. "It was a 2-1 fastball and he hit it a mile," Jones said. "We played great in this series and I stunk it up. They got me today, but I will get them, too. We probably should have won three games, but I didn't do my job. When you don't make your pitch, you get hit hard. I just didn't have it." Paul Shuey (3-2), the last of four Cleveland pitchers, picked up the win with a scoreless ninth. The Indians were held two a pair of hits and four walks in the first six innings by Justin Thompson, but shoddy outfield play aided a two-run eighth that halved a 4-0 deficit. Sexson singled off Masao Kida leading off the eighth and Will Brunson relieved. Enrique Wilson doubled in Sexson and went to third on center fielder Gabe Kapler's throwing error. Lofton then hit a fly ball to left that Juan Encarnacion could not handle and was credited with a sacrifice fly to make it 4-2. Doug Brocail relieved and watched Encarnacion drop a routine fly ball by Vizquel, leaving runners in scoring position. But Brocail escaped further damage by striking out Roberto Alomar and Manny Ramirez and getting Wil Cordero on a popout. "I didn't know what to say (to Encarnacion)," Tigers manager Larry Parrish said. "I just tried to tell him not to worry about it, get a hit and you will catch the next one. In all honesty, I don't think I've seen back-to-back dropped flies or two dropped flies in the same inning." The Tigers gave Thompson a three-run cushion in the third. Deivi Cruz led off with a double and scored when pitcher Bartolo Colon threw wildly to third on Encarnacion's sacrifice. Encarnacion went to third on a groundout by Gregg Jefferies and scored on a single by Damion Easley. Bobby Higginson broke an 0-for-17 slide with a double and Dean Palmer made it 3-0 with a run-scoring groundout. Colon gave up four runs -- two earned -- and six hits with two walks and seven strikeouts in six innings. Steve Karsay kept the Tigers off the board for 1 1/3 frames and Paul Assenmacher got the final two outs of the eighth. "We weren't very smart ball players for seven innings," Indians manager Mike Hargrove said. "For seven innings, every break that could have gone against us did and we made bad plays that made it worse. This kind of restores your confidence in your ability to play. You know you got off the hook." --=-=-- 