AMERICAN LEAGUE
John Buck and Mike Aviles hit 10th-inning homers to lead Kansas City to a 7-4 victory on Monday that snapped Tampa Bay’s seven-game winning streak.
Carlos Pena hit a tying solo homer off Royals closer Joakim Soria in the ninth.
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Billy Butler reached on an error to start the 10th and after a walk, Buck lined his fourth homer down the left-field line off Dan Wheeler (2-4). Two pitches later, Aviles homered to make it 7-3.
Soria (1-1) blew his second save in 25 chances. He allowed Eric Hinske’s solo homer in the bottom of the 10th.
Tampa Bay, with the major’s best record at 55-33, lost for the second time in the last 13 games.
Aviles had three hits and David DeJesus had three hits and two RBIs for the Royals, who avoided being swept in the four-game series.
RED SOX 1, TWINS 0
At Boston, Manny Ramirez hit a run-scoring single in the eighth to lift Boston in a pitching duel between Daisuke Matsuzaka and Minnesota’s Scott Baker.
Dustin Pedroia extended his career-high hitting streak to 15 games with a double on the first pitch from reliever Brian Bass (3-3) in the eighth. Pedroia advanced on a groundout and Ramirez then lined a single to right through a drawn-in infield.
The Red Sox, coming off a 3-7 road trip that dropped them into second place in the AL East behind Tampa Bay, won for the 23rd time in 29 games in Fenway Park.
The Twins lost just their fourth in 22 games, ending a five-game winning streak.
Matsuzaka pitched 7 1-3 innings, allowing six hits, walking three and striking out five. Hideki Okajima (2-2) escaped a bases loaded, one-out jam in the eighth for the win.
Jonathan Papelbon got the final three outs for his 26th save.
Baker gave up five hits, walked two and struck out seven in seven innings.
ANGELS 9, RANGERS 6
At Arlington, Texas, Torii Hunter homered twice, the first capping a six-run second inning, as Los Angeles held on.
Vladimir Guerrero, Jeff Mathis and Hunter homered in the big second inning that gave the Angels an 8-0 lead. All three were off Rangers starter Luis Mendoza (1-3), who allowed eight runs in 1 1-3 innings.
Hunter had an RBI single in the first and homered in the seventh.
Ervin Santana (10-3) allowed six runs and 10 hits in seven innings in winning for the second time in six starts.
David Murphy and Chris Davis homered off Santana in Texas’ five-run fifth.
Francisco Rodriguez pitched the ninth for his 35th save.
Ian Kinsler of the Rangers went 4-for-5 to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 19 games.
ATHLETICS 4, MARINERS 3
At Oakland, California, Wes Bankston hit his first career home run and Dana Eveland won his third straight decision as Oakland ended an eight-game home losing streak.
Bankston, called up from Triple-A on Wednesday when the A’s placed shortstop Bobby Crosby on the disabled list, hit a two-run homer off Seattle starter Jarrod Washburn in the fifth. Bankston also doubled and scored in the second.
Ryan Sweeney’s RBI-single in the fifth drove in the eventual game-winning run for the A’s, who hadn’t beaten Seattle at the Coliseum since July 5, 2007.
Seattle fell to 7-10 under interim manager Jim Riggleman.
Eveland (7-5) gave up three runs in the first and pitched with runners in scoring position in five of the first six innings. He left after allowing nine hits over 5 1-3 innings.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
AP, LOS ANGELES
Hiroki Kuroda took a perfect game into the eighth inning and settled for a one-hitter, leading Los Angeles to a 3-0 victory over Atlanta on Monday night.
The win moved the Dodgers into a tie for first in the NL West with idle Arizona.
Kuroda (5-6) retired the first 21 batters before Mark Teixeira lined the right-hander’s 70th pitch into the right field corner for a double leading off the eighth. He was the only Atlanta baserunner.
Kuroda was attempting to become the first Dodger to throw a no-hitter since countryman Hideo Nomo on Sept. 17, 1996, 9-0 at Colorado. Kuroda, 33, signed with the Dodgers in December as a free agent after 11 seasons with Hiroshima of the Japanese Central League. He threw 91 pitches and struck out six in a game that lasted just 2 hours and 3 minutes.
PIRATES 10, ASTROS 7
At Pittsburgh, Nate McLouth and Ryan Doumit both homered as the Pirates snapped a three-game losing streak.
Adam LaRoche reached base four times, scored twice and drove in a run as eight Pirates had RBIs. Jason Bay went 2-for-3 with two walks and two runs, and Xavier Nady had two hits and two RBIs for Pittsburgh, which scored more runs during the first three innings Monday than they did in being swept in three games in Milwaukee over the weekend.
Carlos Lee hit his 20th homer and had three RBIs for the Astros, who have lost six of seven.
The Houston pitching staff was depleted after a 17-inning loss Sunday at Atlanta, forcing the Astros to ride Runelvys Hernandez (0-3) for four innings in which he allowed 10 runs, 13 hits and four walks.
The Pirates bullpen worked 5 2-3 shutout innings, highlighted by Denny Bautista (2-1) going 2 2-3.
MARLINS 3, PADRES 1
At San Diego, Jorge Cantu hit a two-run home run off Greg Maddux, which was enough to carry Ricky Nolasco and Florida to the victory.
Nolasco (10-4) won his fifth straight decision, holding San Diego to one run and five hits in eight innings. He struck out seven and walked none. Kevin Gregg pitched a perfect ninth for his 16th save.
Maddux (3-7) became the ninth big league pitcher to reach 350 victories on May 10. Since then, he’s 0-4 with seven no-decisions, even though he’s allowed two or fewer earned runs eight times in that streak. He allowed one earned run and four hits in six innings.
Hanley Ramirez of the Marlins doubled in the sixth to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 14 games.
METS 10, PHILLIES 9
At Philadelphia, Pedro Martinez pitched into the sixth inning then watched New York give back nearly all of a nine-run lead before holding on.
David Wright homered and drove in four runs.
The Mets had a 10-7 lead heading into the ninth, but Billy Wagner gave up a two-out RBI single to Pedro Feliz and Eric Bruntlett scored on a throwing error by center fielder Carlos Beltran.
ROCKIES 4, BREWERS 3
At Milwaukee, Ubaldo Jimenez allowed three hits over seven innings as Colorado spoiled Milwaukee’s daylong welcome party for CC Sabathia.
All-Star Matt Holliday hit his 14th home run — and fourth in four games — for Colorado, which has won six of its last seven.
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