Ichiro Suzuki hit a three-run homer in a five-run second inning as the Seattle Mariners beat the New York Yankees 8-3 Tuesday.
New York, 1-1 on a seven-game trip, dropped 2 1/2 games behind the Boston Red Sox in the American League East. The Yankees, who overcame a four-run deficit against the last-place Mariners in Monday's 7-4 win, lead Cleveland by half-game in the wild-card race and are one game in front of the Los Angeles Angels.
Richie Sexson scored the game's first run with a headfirst slide on Chacon's wild pitch. Yorvit Torrealba followed with an RBI grounder, and Suzuki homered for the second straight night and 15th time this season.
Yankees pitcher Shawn Chacon said Suzuki's homer that made the score 5-0 did him in. He said he threw a changeup on a 3-1 pitch.
"I didn't get the pitch where I wanted to," Chacon said. "It wasn't that bad of a pitch, but he's a great hitter."
RED SOX 7, TAMPA BAY 6
Boston rallied from a five-run deficit and beat Tampa Bay 7-6 when Trot Nixon singled in the winning run with two outs in the ninth on Tuesday.
Making his first start at Fenway Park since April, Curt Schilling gave up five runs in the first two innings before settling down with four scoreless innings.
Boston trailed 5-0 after two innings and 6-4 in the eighth before tying it on Bill Mueller's RBI groundout and John Olerud's pinch-single.
There was one out in the ninth when David Ortiz was walked by Joe Borowski (1-1) and took third on Manny Ramirez's single off Danys Baez. Jason Varitek drew a walk and Johnny Damon hit a liner to right that was too hard for Ortiz to score.
Nixon followed with a similar shot, a little shallower, and it fell in for a single.
Mike Timlin (6-2) pitched one inning of perfect relief.
Julio Lugo, Carl Crawford and Jorge Cantu each had three hits for the Devil Rays.
Rangers 8, White Sox 6, Game 1
White Sox 8, Rangers 0, Game 2
At Arlington, Texas, Brandon McCarthy pitched two-hit ball over 7 2-3 innings for his first major league win and Jermaine Dye had two homers and six RBIs as Chicago salvaged the doubleheader split.
McCarthy (1-1) was called up from Triple-A Charlotte earlier in the day to make his sixth major league start. He held the Rangers hitless over the first 4 1-3 innings until Alfonso Soriano's double.
In the first game, rookie left-hander C.J. Wilson allowed one run and two hits in five innings of relief for his first major league win and Mark Teixeira drove in six runs and hit two two-run homers off 16-game winner Jon Garland.
Losses in the previous two games by the White Sox top starters -- Garland and Mark Buehrle -- left Chicago with 11 defeats in a 16-game span.
Bobby Jenks pitched 1 1-3 innings to finish the White Sox's eighth shutout of the season.
Dye had the 10th multihomer game of his career and first of the season while matching his career high for RBIs.
Chicago, which snapped a three-game losing streak, built a 3-0 lead after two innings against Edison Volquez (0-1) in his first major league start.
Athletics 2, Angels 1, 11 innings
At Anaheim, California, Bobby Kielty homered leading off the 11th inning to carry Oakland to its seventh straight win over Los Angeles.
Kielty's eighth homer, off Francisco Rodriguez (2-4), helped the A's move a season-high two games ahead of the Angels in the American League West.
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