Taking the loss for the marine creatures was lefty reliever Shen Yu-jeh, who allowed two runs on five hits and four walks in less than two innings of work for his first loss of the year.
Johnny Damon prepped for his return to Fenway Park with his first multihomer game for the New York Yankees.
The Yankees tied a team record by scoring in all eight innings in which they batted, and Damon scored a career-high five runs to go along with three hits and three RBIs in a 17-6 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday.
Jason Giambi hit a three-run homer for New York, which overcame a 2-0 first-inning deficit and a poor start by Randy Johnson.
Damon, Giambi and Jorge Posada all hit upper-deck homers for the Yankees, and Giambi drove in four runs, giving him 25 RBIs this season.
Mariners 8, Orioles 6
At Baltimore, Ichiro Suzuki got two hits in Seattle's six-run sixth inning and Felix Hernandez earned his first win of the season.
Adrian Beltre and Carl Everett homered for the Mariners, and Yuniesky Betancourt came through with a go-ahead single in the sixth. Eddie Guardado worked the ninth for his third save in five chances.
Corey Patterson hit a three-run homer for the Orioles, who finished with 15 hits.
White Sox 2, Angels 1
At Anaheim, California, Chicago starter Jose Contreras recorded his 12th straight regular-season victory and Jim Thome set a club record with his 10th home run in April.
Contreras (4-0) threw 103 pitches in 8 1-3 innings, allowing five hits and one run with one walk. The right-hander is 15-2 with a 2.58 ERA in 20 starts since last year's All-Star break.
Bobby Jenks got Edgardo Alfonzo to line out with two on in the ninth for his seventh save in seven chances.
Jermaine Dye drove in Chicago's first run with an RBI single in the fourth against Kelvim Escobar (3-2), who pitched only five innings because of a blood blister.
Albert Pujols set a major league record with his 14th homer in April, a tiebreaking shot in the eighth inning that sent the St. Louis Cardinals to a 2-1 victory over the Washington Nationals on Saturday.
After National League Cy Young Award winner Chris Carpenter and All-Star Livan Hernandez locked up in a pitchers' duel, Pujols broke a 1-1 tie when he connected off Jon Rauch (0-1) leading off the eighth.
Jason Isringhausen walked the bases loaded in the ninth before retiring Nick Johnson on a comebacker for his seventh save in nine opportunities. Johnson finished 0-for-5, dropping his batting average to .352.
Mets 1, Braves 0
At Atlanta, Tom Glavine outpitched John Thomson, and Paul Lo Duca hit his first home run with New York.
The first-place Mets have won the first two games of the series at Turner Field, where they've struggled mightily for years. They stretched their early season lead over the Braves to seven games in the NL East.
Glavine (3-2) improved to 3-9 in 14 starts against Atlanta, his major league home from 1987-2002. The 40-year-old lefty gave up only four hits with two walks and one strikeout in seven innings.
Billy Wagner pitched the ninth for his seventh save in nine chances. Thomson (0-1) gave up three hits and one run in 6 2-3 innings.
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