Mark Teixeira had an RBI double for the AL East leaders, who chased Brandon Morrow (10-7) after three innings, ending his five-game winning streak.
Morrow allowed five earned runs on six hits with four strikeouts and three walks.
Kerry Wood (3-4) came on in the seventh and retired all five batters he faced to get the win, and Mariano Rivera worked a perfect ninth.
Travis Snider hit a solo homer for Toronto, which leads the majors with 203 home runs.
Rays 4 Orioles 1: In Baltimore, Matt Garza pitched into the sixth inning to earn his 14th win and Carl Crawford had three hits and an RBI for Tampa Bay.
The Rays stayed 1 1/2 games behind the first-place New York Yankees in the AL East and extended their wild-card lead over Boston to seven games. Tampa Bay has won five of six and nine of 12.
Garza (14-7) gave up one run and five hits in 5 2-3 innings. It was an extension of an outstanding August in which he had a 1.27 ERA over five starts.
Rafael Soriano worked the ninth for his major league-leading 41st save.
Kevin Millwood (3-15) allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings for Baltimore.
Athletics 8 Angels 0: In Oakland, California, Gio Gonzalez pitched six innings to win a season-best third straight start, Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a two-run homer and Oakland snapped a four-game skid.
Gonzalez (13-8) has a 1.04 ERA over his last four starts and improved to 7-3 at home this season with a 2.59 ERA. The left-hander allowed four hits, struck out six and walked three.
Coco Crisp , Rajai Davis and Gabe Gross all hit RBI singles and Jack Cust drew a bases-loaded walk from Angels starter Scott Kazmir (8-13) in the first to put the A’s ahead.
Kazmir struggled from the start and allowed a season-high six walks in 5 2-3 innings. He lost his third straight start, fourth consecutive decision and eighth in nine decisions.
Twins 4 Rangers 3: In Minneapolis, Denard Span delivered the go-ahead single in the seventh inning and emergency starter Matt Fox pitched 5 2-3 innings in his major league debut for Minnesota.
Fox allowed two runs and four hits, giving the Twins’ staff a major boost after scheduled starter Nick Blackburn was forced to pitch in Thursday’s 13-inning loss to Detroit.
Alex Burnett (2-2), who arrived with Fox from Triple-A earlier Friday, allowed a run in 1 1-3 innings. Matt Capps recorded five outs for his eighth save with the Twins.
The Rangers went ahead in the seventh on Julio Borbon’s squeeze. Rangers starter Derek Holland (2-3) was unable to hold the lead.
J.J. Hardy tied it with an RBI single and Span put the Twins ahead with an RBI single.
Mariners 1 Indians 0: In Seattle, Luke French held Cleveland hitless through 6 1-3 innings and combined with Seattle’s bullpen to throw a three-hitter.
French (4-4), nursing his one-run lead through most of his seven innings, gave up a single with one out in the seventh to Shelley Duncan to end his no-hit bid.
He threw 99 pitches in seven innings, walking three and striking out four.
Brandon League worked a routine eighth and David Aardsma threw the ninth for his 27th save in 32 opportunities.
Fausto Carmona (11-14) allowed four hits and one run, walking five and striking out six in his third complete game this season.
Tigers 9 Royals 5, 11 innings: In Kansas City, Missouri, Will Rhymes hit a two-run triple in a four-run 11th inning to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 9-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.
Rhymes’ triple to right-center field off Jesse Chavez (2-3), the sixth Royals pitcher, scored Alex Avila , who had singled, and Casper Wells , who reached on a Josh Fields error. After Johnny Damon walked, Ryan Raburn singled to right to score Rhymes. Austin Jackson’s suicide squeeze bunt scored Damon with the final run.
Ryan Perry (3-5) picked up the victory with two perfect innings.
