Wednesday American League Capsules.

TAMPA BAY 3, TORONTO 2

TORONTO Carlos Pena and Edwin Jackson a amount of jams as the Tampa Bay Rays held on for a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Carl Crawford had a pair of hits and an RBI for Tampa Bay, which won the final two games of this three-game set.

Jackson (7-7) allowed two runs and seven hits with two walks over five innings, winning back-to-back starts for the first time since April 5 and 10. The righthander did not withdraw the side in class during his outing, but Toronto failed to exploit on a pair of big chances in the fourth and fifth turn.

Trailing, 3-2, Toronto got a leadoff threefold from Adam Lind in the fourth part but failed to create him home.

Joe Inglett singled to open the fifth and Marco Scutaro on an blunder by Rays another baseman Akinori Iwamura.

Following a wild lowness that put runners on additional and third with nobody out, Jackson got Alex Rios to broken up back to the embankment and struck out Lyle Overbay. After a walk to Matt Stairs, Lind out to bottom to end the .

After Jackson deceased the game, the Rays bullpen took over as J.P Howell allowed two hits in a scoreless inning and Grant Balfour and Dan Wheeler a hitless and eighth go, respectively. Troy Percival a absolute ninth for his 23rd save.

Crawfords RBI three-layered gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but Overbay put Toronto in front in the lowermost half of the with a two-run gust to middle.

Tampa Bay took the lead for good in the top of the twenty-five percent, as Pena led off the with his 18th home run. Eric Hinske and Dioner Navarro followed with back-to-back hits and Gabe Gross gave the Rays a 3-2 advantage when he plated a run while foundation into a duple play.

Toronto antipasto Scott Richmond (0-1) suffered the loss in his key league unveiling. The 28-year-old allowed three runs and hits in 5 1/3 batting.

DETROIT 14, CLEVELAND 12 (13 INNINGS)

CLEVELAND Placido Polanco group in the go-ahead run with a in the 13th inning and the Detroit Tigers outlasted the Cleveland Indians, 14-12, on in a game that 5 and 33 minutes.

Kelly Shoppach tied a chief league record with five further base hits – two home runs and three doubles – but it wasnt sufficient to stop the Indians from an 8-1 lead.

Detroits Carlos Guillen the winning rally with a one-out particular off Juan Rincon (2-3) and Curtis Granderson followed with a solo as Guillen went to third. Polanco followed with a grounder to third, but Andy Marte had no play at home and took the out at first.

The Tigers on a different run when first Andy Gonzalez wildly past Rincon, allowing Granderson to score.

NY YANKEES 13, BALTIMORE 3

BRONX, New York Bobby Abreu homered twice and scored four runs, powering the New York Yankees to a 13-3 licking of the Baltimore Orioles.

Abreu belted a two-run in the third off Dennis Sarfate (4-2), a New York intuitive who was making his first livelihood dawn, and added a solo shot in the seventh off Fernando Cabrera.

Joba Chamberlain (4-3) held the Orioles to two runs – one earned – and five hits in six score with no walks and six strikeouts.

The Yankees the finale of the three-game sequence and avoided first home sweep against Baltimore since 1986.

KANSAS CITY 4, OAKLAND 3 (10 INNINGS)

OAKLAND, California Jose Guillen gaggle in two runs to help the Kansas City Royals complete a three-game sweep of the Oakland Athletics with a 4-3 triumph.

Guillen, who has been rumored to be tactless in Kansas City, had an RBI unattached in the sixth and hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning off As closer Huston Street to give the Royals the advantage.

Mike Aviles went 3-for-5 with an RBI twin and a run for Kansas City, which has won four running.

Ramon Ramirez (2-1) pitched 1 1/3 round of reinforcement to earn the win and Joakim Soria a picture-perfect 10th for his 30th save of the season.

Athletics reliever Brad Ziegler prolonged his foremost league record for most scoreless go to jerk a job at 30, plunging three round in relief of meze Sean Gallagher.

TEXAS 4, SEATTLE 3

ARLINGTON, Texas A nip-hit sacrifice fly by Michael Young the Texas Rangers to a 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in the third game of a four-game set.

Seattle reliever Arthur Rhodes walked the laden in the and Young, who was out of the starting alliance because of a fissured right ring digit, lofted a fly ball to middle England sphere, David Murphy with the go-ahead run.

Josh Hamilton and Brandon Boggs hit home runs for the Rangers in the succeeding inning off Mariners tapas Miguel Batista after Seattle jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top half of the .

Texas bullpen Vicente Padilla allowed three runs on 10 hits and a walk with four strikeouts. Eddie Guardado earned the win in liberation and C.J. Wilson enumerated his 24th save.

LA ANGELS 9, BOSTON 2

BOSTON Garret Anderson had four hits, including a key two-run homer, as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim cruised to a 9-2 win over the Boston Red Sox to complete a three-game sweep at Fenway Park.

Playing in his first game since being developed in a custom from Atlanta, Mark Teixeira went in four at-bats, base two times on an fault and a walk.

The Red Sox, in the intervening time, played like a team distracted by the around a team round a customers that would send Manny Ramirez to the Florida Marlins as Boston committed a season-high four errors for the following time this season.

Joe Saunders (14-5) allowed five hits and two runs over six batting, mobile three while striking out two.

CHI WHITE SOX 8, MINNESOTA 3

MINNEAPOLIS Carlos Quentin and Alexei Ramirez hit home runs to back the big-name pitching of Gavin Floyd as the Chicago White Sox thrashed the Minnesota Twins, 8-3, to remain atop the American League Central Division.

Quentin hit his 28th homer in the first inning off Livan Hernandez to give the White Sox a 1-0 lead. After Jermaine Dyes sacrifice fly in the third the gap to 2-0, Quentin delivered a three-run twofold in the quarter.

Ramirez three-run to left in the crowd home Paul Konerko and Nick Swisher to make it 8-1.

Floyd (11-6) gave up four hits and struck out four in 7 2/3 innings as the White Sox lead to 1 1/2 meet over the Twins. Matt Thornton got the last out in the eighth before Bobby Jenks was touched up for two runs on two hits and a walk before diffident the side in the .

Posted on July 31st, 2008 by admin
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