Garrett Olson pitched seven innings of three-hit ball, Nick Markakis went 3-for-4 with a home run, and the Baltimore Orioles ended the New York Yankees' five-game winning streak with a 6-1 victory on Monday.
Aubrey Huff also homered for the Orioles, who snapped a five-game skid that began with successive defeats in New York. Markakis is 9-for-11 with two doubles and a homer against Darrell Rasner (3-1), who gave up one run and five hits in six innings.
Hideki Matsui had three of New York’s five hits and scored the Yankees’ lone run, on a ninth-inning single by Chad Moeller.
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Blue Jays 7, Royals 2
At Toronto, Shaun Marcum won for the first time in four starts, Gregg Zaun hit a two-run homer and Toronto completed its first four-game sweep of Kansas City.
Marcum (5-3) gave up two runs — one earned — and five hits in seven and a third innings, lowering his ERA to 2.64. He struck out six and walked one.
The Kansas City native is 3-1 with an 1.09 ERA in seven career games against his hometown team.
Brett Tomko (2-6) allowed seven runs — six earned — and eight hits in six innings. He has won once in his past nine starts, his ERA rising to 6.11.
Rays 7, Rangers 3
At St Petersburg, Florida, Scott Kazmir won his fourth straight start, striking out 10 in seven innings to lead American League East-leading Tampa Bay over Texas.
Eric Hinske hit a three-run homer for the Rays, who have won 16 of their last 17 home games and at 31-20 have the best record in the major leagues. Tampa Bay is just the second team — joining the 1903 New York Giants — to have the best mark on Memorial Day after finishing with the worst record in the big leagues the previous season (66-96).
Kazmir (4-1) retired his first 10 batters, seven on strikeouts, before Michael Young singled to center with one out in the fourth.
Sidney Ponson (3-1) gave up five runs and 12 hits in five innings for Texas.
White Sox 6, Indians 3, 12 innings
At Cleveland, Orlando Cabrera’s fourth hit drove in the go-ahead run in the 12th inning and Chicago handed Cleveland its ninth loss in 10 games.
Boone Logan (2-1) pitched a perfect one and a third innings for the win and Bobby Jenks got the final three outs for his 13th save in 15 chances.
Jenks allowed two singles, then got Jhonny Peralta to hit into a double play and struck out Franklin Gutierrez to become the second-fastest reliever to notch 100 career saves, doing so in 187 games. Kazuhiro Sasaki did it in 160.
The White Sox won for the 10th time in 12 games.
Scott Elarton (0-1) took the loss.
Red Sox 5, Mariners 3
At Seattle, Bartolo Colon showed flashes of his Cy Young days, shutting down Seattle for seven innings, and Dustin Pedroia’s RBI ground-rule double scored the go-ahead run as Boston scored four times in the eighth for a win over Seattle.
David Ortiz added a long solo homer in the fourth and Manny Ramirez rattled the outfield wall with a run-scoring single as part of Boston’s eighth inning rally, as the Red Sox snapped their seven-game road losing streak, their longest skid away from Fenway Park in nearly seven years.
Meanwhile, Seattle (18-34) dropped its seventh straight and fell 16 games under .500. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, only the 1914 Boston Braves have been 16 games under .500 and still made the playoffs.
Angels 1, Tigers 0, 12 innings
At Anaheim, California, Detroit’s Bobby Seay walked Garret Anderson on four pitches with the bases loaded and one out in the 12th inning to force home the winning run.
Anderson was the only batter Seay faced after replacing Freddy Dolsi (0-1).
Detroit and its high-priced lineup was shut out for a major league-high eighth time this season. The inconsistent Tigers had scored a total of 54 runs over a five-game stretch before they lost 1-0 to Minnesota on Sunday.
Macier Izturis led off the 12th with a single, and, after Gary Matthews Jr flied out, Vladimir Guerrero singled to center to advance Izturis to third. Dolsi (0-1) intentionally walked Torii Hunter before Seay came on.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Mark Teixeira drove in four runs against Brandon Webb as the Atlanta Braves beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-3 and sent Webb to his second straight defeat in the National League on Monday.
Webb (9-2) allowed seven runs — four earned — and a season-high 10 hits in four and a third innings, his shortest start since Oct. 1, 2006. He won his first nine decisions before losing 3-1 at Florida last Wednesday.
Manny Acosta (3-1) pitched two hitless innings to win in relief of Jair Jurrjens, who gave up three runs and eight hits in four and two thirds innings.
Atlanta split the four-game series to complete an 8-3 homestand, the Braves’ longest this season. Arizona finished a 2-5 trip.
Cubs 3, Dodgers 1
At Chicago, Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez homered to back Ryan Dempster, and Chicago beat Los Angeles.
Lee hit a two-run drive in the first inning off Chad Billingsley (4-6) for his 250th home run, and Ramirez added a solo homer against Scott Proctor in the eighth.
Dempster (6-2) gave the bullpen some rest after the Cubs combined to use 11 relievers in consecutive extra-inning losses at Pittsburgh. He allowed one run and seven hits in seven innings before Bob Howry and Kerry Wood finished.
Billingsley allowed two runs and four hits in six innings, struck out seven and walked two.
Brewers 4, Nationals 3, 11 innings
At Washington, pinch-hitter Gabe Kapler singled home the decisive run in the 11th inning for Milwaukee against Washington.
Prince Fielder led off the 11th with an opposite-field double to left, then moved to third on Corey Hart’s sacrifice bunt. Kapler lined the first pitch from Saul Rivera (3-2) to center for an RBI single.
Dmitri Young hit a disputed solo homer off Brian Shouse in the eighth to tie the game after Fielder’s sacrifice fly had given the Brewers a 3-2 lead in the top of the inning.
Nationals starter Jason Bergmann pitched five and to thirds scoreless innings, stretching his shutout streak to nineteen and two thirds innings since being recalled from Triple-A Columbus on May 14. He allowed four hits, struck out eight, and left with a 2-0 lead.
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