Gustavo Chacin made a strong first start, Jason Phillips hit a tiebreaking double and B.J. Ryan got his second save, leading the Toronto Blue Jays over the Minnesota Twins 6-3 Thursday.
Chacin (1-0) allowed three runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out four and walked one. The left-hander went 13-9 with a 3.72 ERA in his rookie season.
Ryan, signed to a US$47 million, five-year contract -- the richest ever for a reliever -- entered in the ninth to loud cheers. He walked one and struck out one.
Lyle Overbay tripled and hit an RBI single for the Blue Jays, who took two of three in the opening series. Despite all the offseason additions to Toronto's roster, attendance was just 16,221.
Carlos Silva (0-1) allowed six runs -- five earned -- and five hits in 5 2-3 innings. Silva walked two -- his first game with more than one walk since Sept. 26, 2004 at Cleveland, a span of 28 starts.
Shannon Stewart led off the first with a double, advanced to second on a bunt and scored on Torii Hunter's RBI grounder, but Overbay's RBI single and Shea Hillenbrand's sacrifice fly gave Toronto a 2-1 lead in the fourth.
Tigers 10, Rangers 6
At Arlington, Texas, knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (0-1) allowed six home runs, tying the post-1900 major league record in Texas' loss to Detroit.
Five of the homers were solo shots. The only major league pitcher to give up more homers was Charlie Sweeney of the St. Louis Maroons, who allowed seven at the Detroit Wolverines in an American Association game on June 12, 1886.
Magglio Ordonez and Chris Shelton both homered twice for the Tigers, who hit seven in all and raised their total to a major league-leading 15 in three games. Dickey gave up eight hits, only two of which weren't homers, and seven runs.
Devil Rays 2, Orioles 0
At Baltimore, Mark Hendrickson pitched a three-hitter and Tampa Bay won its first game for rookie manager Joe Maddon.
Mariners 6, Athletics 2
At Seattle, Gil Meche put together another strong outing for a Seattle starter, and Carl Everett hit his first homer with the Mariners in a win Oakland.
Everett's two-run homer was part of a three-run second inning that was all the offense Meche needed. The right-hander pitched into the sixth, allowing just two runs and four hits, as the Mariners won their third straight.
Seattle's bullpen allowed just one hit in 3 2-3 innings. J.J. Putz retired all four batters that he faced for his first save, striking out the side in the ninth.
Barry Bonds drew two intentional walks, struck out and grounded weakly to first Thursday in the San Francisco Giants' home opener, a 6-4 win over the Atlanta Braves.
Pedro Feliz hit a bases-clearing double off the wall in left-center in a six-run third and Ray Durham added a two-run single in the inning.
Bonds, in pursuit of Major League Baseball's career home run record, stepped into the batter's box in the bottom of the first inning to roaring cheers and a standing ovation from his hometown fans.
The reaction came after he played only 14 games last year because of a knee injury and was a key figure in a much-publicized federal doping investigation. Thurday's game was Bonds' first before a home crowd since a book was published that included the latest in a series of doping allegations.
Cardinals 4, Phillies 2
In Philadelphia, Jimmy Rollins saw his 38-game hitting streak end going 0-for-4 in the Phillies' loss to St. Louis.
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