Jake Westbrook won for the fifth time in six starts and Cleveland moved closer in the American League wild-card race, beating Texas 9-4 on Thursday.
Along with Jhonny Peralta two-run blast, Coco Crisp and Travis Hafner each drove in two runs for the Indians.
"The double play was key -- that and our offense coming up huge," said Westbrook.
Cleveland won for the second time in six games at Jacobs Field after completing a 6-0 trip to Detroit and Kansas City. Texas lost for the eighth time in nine games -- all on the road.
Westbrook (11-13) allowed four runs and 10 hits over six innings. He finished his outing by getting Mark DeRosa to ground into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded, preserving a 5-4 lead.
"I just thought, `This is what you do, get ground balls,'" Westbrook said. "Here and there, I felt good. I battled, the defense was great and our bullpen did what they always do."
Twins 7, Mariners 3
At Minneapolis, Matthew LeCroy hit his third homer in two games, leading Minnesota past Seattle for its fifth straight victory.
Justin Morneau had two RBIs, including the go-ahead run in the third, and Shannon Stewart had his second four-hit game of the season in Minnesota's seventh win in eight games.
LeCroy gave Minnesota a 3-0 lead in the first when he hit a pitch from Ryan Franklin well over the center-field fence for a two-run homer.
Joe Mays (6-8) struggled early before settling down to get his first win since July 3. Franklin (6-13) lost his second straight start since his 10-day suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy.
Angels 13, Red Sox 4
At Anaheim, California, Juan Rivera hit two three-run homers and Los Angeles' Bartolo Colon won his fifth straight decision in the series opener between American League division leaders.
Rivera homered on the second pitch from Mike Myers after Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield left the game in the fifth inning after he was hit in the right ankle on a comebacker by Casey Kotchman.
The Angels, who stopped a two-game losing streak, extended their AL West lead to 2 1/2 games over Oakland. Boston's lead over New York dropped to four games in the East.
Colon (16-6) allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings, struck out five and walked none.
Wakefield (13-9) gave up six runs and seven hits in 4 1-3 innings, struck out five and walked four.
Damian Miller's two-run bases-loaded double off Roger Clemens sparked a four-run seventh inning rally to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-2 win over the Houston Astros in National League play Thursday in Houston.
Miller's shot drove in the go-ahead run as the Brewers rallied from a 2-0 deficit to win their third straight game, the fourth in their last five.
The Astros loss put them a half-game behind the Philadelphia Phillies in the race for the NL Wild Card, as the Phillies split a doubleheader with Washington.
Jason Lane homered in the second and singled in the third to give the Astros a 2-0 lead, but Rickie Weeks homered in the sixth to end Clemens scoreless streak at 28 innings and make it 2-1.
Bill Hall's RBI single and a sacrifice fly from Prince Fielder accounted for Milwaukee's other runs in the seventh.
Tomo Ohka (8-7) went six innings for the win, allowing two runs on eight hits with three strikeouts and no walks.
Rick Helling tossed two hitless innings of relief and Derrick Turnbow pitched the ninth for his 27th save.
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