ATLANTA (AP) _ Jacob Cruz hit a solo home run in the 12th inning Friday night to give the Cleveland Indians a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves, who got an impressive performance from struggling Kevin Millwood.

Millwood pitched three hitless innings, by far his best outing of the spring. Only one batter reached base off him _ Einar Diaz, on an error by shortstop Rafael Furcal.

The Atlanta right-hander lowered his spring ERA to 12.46. He has given up 35 hits and 24 earned runs in 17 1-3 innings.

"I finally felt like I was pitching the way I was a couple of years ago, again," said Millwood, who was 35-15 in 1998-98 before a 10-13 season a year ago.

"All in all, it was a pretty good outing," said Millwood, who hurried off to the hospital afterward to be with his wife, Rena, who is pregnant with their first child. Doctors were to induce labor early Saturday.

Millwood admitted a bit of relief after his performance.

`Yeah, it's nice. I don't guess anybody will be calling me now and asking what's wrong anymore," he said. "I've been working on a few things and they finally came together."

Cruz hit a 3-0 shot over the right field fence _ his third homer of the spring _ off Atlanta right-hander Billy Sylvester.

The Braves opened the scoring with two runs in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Chipper Jones and a sacrifice fly by Brian Jordan off Cleveland starter Chuck Finley.

Finley went four innings. The left-hander gave up three hits, two runs _ one earned _ and struck out five.

The Indians tied it in the seventh on a two-run homer by Eddie Taubensee, his third of the spring, off Kerry Ligtenberg.

Braves starter Tom Glavine, who will pitch the home-opener against the New York Mets on Tuesday, went the first two innings, giving up two hits and no runs.

Notes: The Braves placed RHP John Smoltz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 23. ... LHP Steve Avery, who signed a minor league contract in January, was released by Atlanta. ... The Indians end their exhibition season on Saturday in Houston against the Astros. ... Friday night's game was the eighth extra-inning game of the spring for the Braves, all since March 10.