Robinson Cano added a solo shot for the Yankees, shut down by Seattle co-aces Cliff Lee and
Felix Hernandez the previous two
nights.
Sabathia (10-3) took a three-hit shutout into the eighth
before a leadoff walk and a passed ball by catcher Jorge Posada led to Russell Branyan’s two-run single that tied it at 2.
Mark Teixeira singled off closer David Aardsma (0-5) with one out in the bottom half and Rodriguez homered, his 595th.
Mariano Rivera worked a perfect ninth for his 18th save.
Indians 6 Blue
Jays 1: At Cleveland, Justin
Masterson took a shutout into the
ninth inning and Matt LaPorta homered for the third straight game in Cleveland’s
season-high fifth-straight win.
Toronto has lost five in a row, matching its worst skid this
year.
Masterson (3-7) blanked the Blue Jays until Jose Bautista led off the ninth with a double and
Aaron Hill hit an RBI single with
one out. Frank Herrmann relieved
with the bases loaded and got Jose Molina to bounce into a double play for his first major league save.
Masterson gave up eight hits, walked none and struck out
five.
Shawn Marcum (7-4)
allowed five runs and six hits in four innings.
Athletics 8 Orioles 1: At Balatimore, Trevor Cahill pitched seven innings of four-hit ball to earn his seventh
straight win, and Oakland got four
hits from Ryan Sweeney .
Sweeney, Jack
Cust and Cliff Pennington had two RBIs each for the A’s, who took
two of three for their first road series win in five tries since May 29-31 in
Detroit. Oakland has won four series away from home, half of them in Baltimore.
Cahill (8-2) gave up a run, struck out four and walked one.
After starting the season in Triple-A Sacramento and losing two of his first
three starts with Oakland, the right-hander is 7-0 with a 2.12 ERA over his
past nine starts.
Sweeney’s four hits (all singles) tied a career high. He was
10 for 56 (.179) in his previous 17 games.
Baltimore rookie Jake Arrieta (2-2) allowed four runs, three earned, and seven hits in six
innings.
Rays 5 Twins 4,
10 innings: At Minneapolis, Willy
Aybar’s single off Matt Guerrier gave Tampa a 10th-inning lead.
Jon Rauch blew
a save for the fourth time this season when Carl Crawford — who had four hits
and an RBI—singled and scored on Evan Longoria’s tying double in the ninth.
Delmon Young homered, drove
in two runs and prevented another with an inning-ending outfield assist against
his former team, but Carl Pavano took his first no-decision of the season and his top two
relievers—Rauch and Guerrier (1-3)—didn’t hold up at the end.
Lance Cormier (3-1) pitched a perfect ninth, and Rafael Soriano picked up his 20th save.
Pavano’s scoreless innings streak ended at 16 on John Jaso’s
RBI single in the fourth.
Jeff Niemann went 6 2-3 innings and has finished at least the sixth in 15
straight starts.
Angels 2 Rangers 1: At Anaheim, Calif., Jered Weaver pitched two-hit ball over seven scoreless innings to lead Los
Angeles.
The second-place Angels took two of three from the Rangers,
whose AL West lead was reduced to 3 1/2 games—still the largest in the American
League.
Weaver (8-3) struck out six and walked two in lowering his
ERA to 1.70 in eight home starts. His 124 strikeouts lead the AL, and he has 28
in his last three starts while allowing just three walks.
Brian Fuentes pitched a perfect ninth to earn his 15th save.
Texas’ C.J. Wilson (6-4) gave up two runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings, losing
for the first time since May 29 at Minnesota.
