- TORONTO: Kendry Morales homered, Jered Weaver continued his mastery over Toronto with seven strong innings and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Blue Jays 7-5 in the American Baseball League on Friday night.
Vernon Wells, Randy Ruiz and Adam Lind homered for Toronto, but it wasn't enough as Weaver improved to 6-1 with a 2.93 ERA in seven career starts against the Blue Jays. Weaver (2-0) allowed two runs and five hits in seven-plus innings. He walked none and struck out eight.
Weaver's strong outing spoiled Shaun Marcum's first home start for Toronto since Sept. 16, 2008, when he left two innings into a game against Baltimore with tightness in his forearm. Marcum missed the rest that season and all of 2009 after ligament replacement surgery on his right elbow.
Marcum (0-1) allowed four runs and seven hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out six.
Mitch Talbot pitched a complete game for his first career win and Luis Valbuena hit a two-run homer for Cleveland.
Talbot (1-0) retired 12 in a row after Paul Konerko snapped an 0-for-12 slump with his fourth homer leading off the second inning. The right-hander, acquired in December from Tampa Bay, gave up six hits and struck out two without walking a batter.
Luis Valbuena hit a two-run homer and the Indians scored three unearned runs off Mark Buehrle (2-1) in a game that took a brisk 2 hours, 4 minutes.
Talbot's outing comes a day after David Huff went the distance in a 3-2 win against Texas, giving Cleveland its first back-to-back complete game victories since September 1996.
CC Sabathia struck out nine in another dominant performance and New York the sloppy Rangers.
Sabathia (2-0) allowed three hits and walked none in his first complete game of the season. He retired 17 of the last 19 batters he faced after Josh Hamilton's one-out double in the first, including six consecutive strikeouts.
C.J. Wilson (0-1), working on seven days' rest, also pitched six innings for Texas but was hurt by control problems and first baseman Chris Davis' throwing
The game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox was suspended because of rain with the score tied 1-1 after 8 1/2 innings on Friday night.
It was scheduled to resume before Saturday night's scheduled game from the point it was suspended. Rain was forecast for all day Saturday.
The Rays scored in the third on Ben Zobrist's RBI single and the Red Sox tied it in the fifth on Jason Varitek's third homer-and third hit-of the season.
Zack Greinke walked five in just five innings, getting out-pitched by Scott Baker in the first night game at Target Field.
Greinke (0-2) gave up six hits and four runs-two earned-with five strikeouts. After giving up four earned runs in his first eight starts on his way to the AL Cy Young Award last year, Greinke has already given up seven earned runs in three starts this season.
Baker (2-1) looked like the real ace on a cool night under the lights at the new ballpark. He gave up two runs and seven hits with six strikeouts and no
Dallas Braden pitched seven solid innings to win his second consecutive start and Gabe Gross had three hits as Oakland dropped Baltimore to 1-10, its worst start since opening the 1988 season with 21 consecutive losses.
Cliff Pennington tripled in two runs in the fifth for the A's, who have won eight straight home games against the Orioles. Andrew Bailey pitched the ninth inning for his first save of the season.
Braden (2-0) struck out four and walked one in his most impressive outing of the season.
Felix Hernandez struck out nine while allowing just four hits and two runs in 6 2-3 innings in his home debut.
Franklin Gutierrez had three hits and three RBIs, and Jose Lopez drove in two as the Mariners improved to 28-9 with King Felix starting since the beginning of 2009. Last season's runner-up for the Cy Young Award turned 24 a week ago.
Detroit's Jeremy Bonderman (1-1) flopped in his second start after missing most of the last year and a half because of a blood clot in his pitching shoulder. The resident of Pasco, Wash., allowed 10 runs-eight earned-on nine hits and four walks in four-plus innings.

