BALTIMORE: Wei-Yin Chen won his fifth consecutive start and had a season-high eight strikeouts to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 2-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.

Baltimore has won nine of its past 11 games and remained atop the American League East. An RBI single by Manny Machado in the third, snapped the Orioles’ scoreless streak at 19 innings,

Chen (12-3) allowed one run and five hits with one walk over 7 1-3 innings. Andrew Miller, acquired from Boston on Thursday, pitched a scoreless eighth in his debut for the Orioles (61-47). Left-hander Zach Britton picked up his 22nd save.

Mariners left-hander Roenis Elias (8-9) allowed two runs and seven hits with seven strikeouts and one walk over 5 2-3 innings. It was his longest outing since June 28 against Cleveland.

Indians 12 Rangers: In Cleveland, David Murphy was 4 for 4 with two RBIs against his former team, Danny Salazar allowed an unearned run in six innings, and the Indians routed the Rangers.

Murphy, who played for Texas from 2007-13 before signing a two-year contract with the Indians in November, had a two-run double in the fifth when Cleveland scored six times. He doubled in the second and added singles in the fourth and sixth.

Murphy also threw out a runner at home from right field in the second to end the Rangers’ scoring threat.

Tigers 4 Rockies 2: In Detroit, Justin Verlander equaled his longest outing of the season, pitching eight solid innings to lift the Tigers to a victory over the Rockies.

A day after the AL Central-leading Tigers added star left-hander David Price to their rotation, Verlander (10-9) showed signs that he might be rounding into form. He allowed two runs and eight hits, striking out five without a walk. The right-hander lowered his ERA to 4.66.

Joe Nathan pitched the ninth for his 22nd save in 27 chances, retiring Charlie Blackmon on a flyout with two on to end it.

Angels 5 Rays 3: In St. Petersburg, Florida, Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton homered to help the Angels beat the Rays.

Trout hit his 25th homer of the season, a two-run shot off Jeremy Hellickson (0-1) during a three-run first that put the Angels up 3-0.

Los Angeles went ahead 4-1 on Hamilton’s solo homer in the third. The slugger was hit by Jeff Beliveau’s pitch in the seventh inning and later left with a bruised left middle finger.

After Tampa Bay loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth against Huston Street, the closer got his fifth save since being acquired from San Diego on July 18 by striking out Desmond Jennings and Ben Zobrist, and getting Matt Joyce on a pop fly.

Red Sox 4 Yankees 3: In Boston, Anthony Ranaudo pitched six solid innings in his major league debut and Dustin Pedroia drove in two runs as the Red Sox snapped a three-game losing streak with a victory over the Yankees.

Ranaudo (1-0) allowed two runs and four hits, including a solo homer Carlos Beltran hit into the New York bullpen in the fourth. Ranaudo walked four and struck out two, and he scattered the few mistakes he made well enough for Boston to hang on after taking a 2-0 lead in the third.

Derek Jeter led off the eighth with a shot over the Green Monster to pull the Yankees within 4-3, but they failed to drive Mark Teixeira for the tying run after his ground-rule double with one out.

Royals 1 Athletics 0: In Oakland, California, Raul Ibanez homered to break his own franchise record for oldest Royals player to clear the fences, and Kansas City beat the Athletics.

The 42-year-old Ibanez connected in the fifth inning for his fifth homer, giving Jeremy Guthrie the lone run he needed for Kansas City’s first victory at the Oakland Coliseum since April 10, 2012. The Royals went 1-5 against the A’s last season, including 0-3 on the road.

Guthrie (7-9) struck out six in six innings to win his second straight outing following a three-start skid as the Royals beat the team with baseball’s best record for their third straight win and eighth in 10.

Astros 3 Blue Jays 1: In Houston, Gregorio Petit’s first career home run put Houston on top in the eighth inning and the Astros held on for a win over the Blue Jays, snapping Toronto’s six-game winning streak.

The game was tied at 1-1 when Petit launched Aaron Loup’s first pitch into the first row of the Crawford Boxes in left field to give the Astros the lead. Jose Altuve connected on the next pitch by Loup (3-3) for a ground-rule double before stealing third base.

Houston got an insurance run on a sacrifice fly by Robbie Grossman.

White Sox 10 Twins 8: In Chicago, Jose Abreu reached base five times while extending his hitting streak to 21 games, and the White Sox scored four runs in the eighth inning to beat the Twins.

Abreu had three singles, scored twice and drove in a run. He also walked and was hit by a pitch.

Paul Konerko and Alexei Ramirez delivered consecutive RBI singles in the eighth to give Chicago an 8-7 lead. Tyler Flowers added a run-scoring single in the inning after hitting a solo homer earlier in the game.