Detroit’s Ryan Raburn hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth off Bobby Jenks that made it 4-all.
Sergio Santos (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings for his first major league win. Freddy Garcia pitched 6 2-3 strong innings for the AL Central leaders.
Kotsay’s go-ahead triple came off Jose Valverde (1-3). Brent Lillibridge and Andruw Jones hit one-out singles in the 11th before Kotsay’s drive into the right-center field gap.
Twins 8 Rays 6: At St. Petersburg, Florida, Jason Kubel’s two-out popup hit a catwalk high above Tropicana Field and fell near the pitcher’s mound for a go-ahead single in the ninth inning, a true dome run that sent Minnesota past Tampa Bay.
The Rays scored six times in the eighth, capped by pinch-hitter Jason Barlett’s grand slam.
Michael Cuddyer added a more conventional RBI single off Joaquin Benoit (0-1) later in the Twins’ ninth.
Matt Capps (1-0) pitched 1 1-3 innings for the win.
At Baltimore, Cesar Izturis singled in the winning run in the ninth inning and the Orioles remained unbeaten under new manager Buck Showalter, defeating Los Angeles for a three-game sweep.
Matt Wieters led off the ninth with a double off Francisco Rodriguez (0-3). After pinch-runner Julio Lugo took third on a bunt by Corey Patterson , the Angels packed the drawn-up infield with six players.
Izturis then lined a single up the middle, sparking a wild celebration by the Orioles around first base.
Jason Berken (3-2) got the win despite giving up a three-run, game-tying homer to Torii Hunter in the eighth.
At Boston, Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched eight solid innings and Adrian Beltre hit a grand slam to lead the Red Sox.
Matsuzaka (8-3) allowed Shin-Soo Choo’s 14th homer of the season in the first but gave up just four more hits and never faced more than four batters in any inning.
Beltre connected for his 20th homer in the fourth inning after Josh Tomlin (1-1) retired Boston’s first 10 batters. Beltre took over the team’s RBI lead with 75.
Jonathan Papelbon got his 26th save in 31 opportunities when he struck out Trevor Crowe with the bases loaded for the final out.
At Seattle, David Murphy hit his second go-ahead home run in two nights, this one to break through against Felix Hernandez , and Tommy Hunter resumed his excellence for Texas.
Murphy drove in the game’s first two runs with his seventh homer of the season in the sixth. Hunter (9-1) pitched 6 2-3 scoreless innings against the worst offensive team in the major leagues to up the Rangers’ lead in the AL West to a season high-tying 8 1/2 games over the idle Athletics.
Hernandez (7-9) lost his fourth consecutive decision — even though his ERA remained steady at 2.94, sixth-lowest in the AL.
Seattle finished 0 for 12 with runners in scoring position.
