AMERICAN LEAGUE Myers' inside-the-park homer carries Blue Jays past Baltimore

Melvin Mora left the game after crashing into the outfield wall to make a catch.
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TORONTO -- Greg Myers became the second catcher in Blue Jays history to hit an inside-the-park home run, and Toronto won its fourth straight with a 6-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles Saturday.
Myers also homered over the left-field fence off Pat Hentgen (7-7), becoming the fourth Blue Jays player to have a multihomer game that included an inside-the-park home run.
Hentgen allowed six runs -- five earned -- in 6 2-3 innings against his former team.
Deivi Cruz hit an RBI double in the fourth for Baltimore's lone run. The Orioles have lost four straight.
Toronto starter Kelvim Escobar (11-9) won for just the second time in his last six starts.
BALTIMORETORONTO
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Bigbie lf5010Wells cf3110
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TBtsta 3b5020GMyrs dh4223
Mora rf1100Ctlnotto lf3100
Cust lf2020Kielty rf0000
Mendez ph1000Bordick ss3111
DCruz ss4011OHudsn 2b3000
Frdyce c3010Cash c3000
Raines cf30
Totals34191Totals30665
Baltimore000100000--1
Toronto00040110x--6
E--BRoberts (6), Fordyce (3). DP--Baltimore 1, Toronto 1. LOB--Baltimore 14, Toronto 4. 2B--TBatista (20), Cust (4), DCruz (24). 3B--Johnson (2), Wells (4). HR--GMyers 2 (15). SB--BRoberts (22), Hinske (10), Bordick (3). S--Hairston Jr..
IPHRERBBSO
Baltimore
Hentgen L,6-86 2-356534
Groom110012
HCarrasco1-300000
Toronto
KEscobar W,11-9651162
TreMiller2-320002
Politte1 1-300001
Kershner120000
HBP--by KEscobar (Raines Jr.). Umpires--Home, Gary Cederstrom; First, Chuck Meriwether; Second, Tim Welke; Third, Mark Wegner. T--2:49. A--18,309.
White Sox 3, Red Sox 1
BOSTON -- Bartolo Colon pitched his third consecutive complete game and Carlos Lee was 3-for-4 with a home run.
Colon (14-12) allowed just an unearned run on five hits and two walks, striking out two to snap Chicago's three-game losing streak and earn his eighth complete game of the season.
Tim Wakefield (10-7) allowed three runs on six hits and two walks in seven innings. He struck out eight, getting Frank Thomas and Miguel Olivo three times apiece.
CHICAGOBOSTON
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MOrdz rf4010Grcprr ss3001
CEvrtt cf3110MRmrz lf3000
Rwand cf0000DOrtiz dh4000
Knerko 1b3000Millar 1b4000
Vlentin ss3111Mueller 3b3000
Crede 3b4010Mrbelli c2000
Olivo c4000Varitek c1000
Kapler rf3000
Totals32373Totals30151
Chicago000200100--3
Boston000100000--1
E--CaLee (7), Mirabelli (6). DP--Boston 1. LOB--Chicago 6, Boston 5. 2B--TWalker (33). HR--CaLee (29). SB--CaLee (18), Valentin (7). CS--Damon (6). SF--RAlomar, Garciaparra.
IPHRERBBSO
Chicago
Colon W,14-12951022
Boston
Wakefield L,10-7763328
Williamson110002
Lyon100001
HBP--by Wakefield (CEverett). Umpires--Home, Angel Hernandez; First, Sam Holbrook; Second, Lance Barksdale; Third, Paul Schrieber. T--2:21. A--34,414.
Royals 7, Tigers 0
DETROIT -- Jamey Wright threw a seven-hit shutout to win for the first time in almost a year and Carlos Beltran drove in three runs.
Detroit (38-109) tied a franchise record with its 109th loss, originally set in 1996, and are the most losses in the majors since then. The Tigers need to win five of their final 15 games to avoid tying the 1962 New York Mets for the most losses in a season since 1900.
Detroit's 215 losses in consecutive seasons tie the 1916-17 Philadelphia Athletics for seventh-most in the majors since 1900.
Its was the Tigers' 16th shutout loss of the season, most in the majors.
KANSAS CITYDETROIT
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Beltran cf5233WMoris 2b4020
MiSwy dh2102Hggnsn rf2000
Ibanez lf4011DYong dh4010
Randa 3b4001Monroe lf4000
Guiel rf4010CPena 1b3010
Harvey 1b3010Halter 3b4000
Rlaford 2b3120Inge c3010
DFelice c4010RStiago ss4000
Totals347127Totals32070
Kansas City200020102--7
Detroit000000000--0
DP--Kansas City 2, Detroit 2. LOB--Kansas City 7, Detroit 9. 2B--Beltran (12), Relaford (27). 3B--Berroa (6). HR--Beltran (23). SB--Beltran (35), MiSweeney (3), Ibanez (7), ASanchez 2 (37), WMorris (4). CS--Guiel (5), Relaford (4). SF--MiSweeney 2, Randa.
IPHRERBBSO
Kansas City
Wright W,1-1970047
Detroit
Mears L,0-34 1-364423
Spurling1 2-320010
German221110
Roney122200
Umpires--Home, Mark Carlson; First, Ed Rapuano; Second, Paul Nauert; Third, Gerry Davis. T--2:41. A--15,966.
Athletics 9, Rangers 3
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Erubiel Durazo hit two home runs and Jose Guillen also homered as Oakland earned its fifth win in a row.
Oakland starter Tim Hudson (15-6) gave up three runs and six hits over the first two innings but was still able to end a personal two-game losing streak, his longest of the season.
The Athletics led 4-3 heading into the eighth inning before scoring five runs over the final two innings.
Miguel Tejada led off the eighth with a single off reliever Reynaldo Garcia, went to second on a wild pitch, and scored on Scott Hatteberg's single to make it 5-3. Guillen followed with his seventh homer for the A's and his 30th of the season.
Durazo hit a two-run homer, his 19th, in the ninth off Jay Powell to make it 9-3. Durazo also hit a solo homer in the first.
Guillen, who had three hits, had 23 homers for Cincinnati this season before a July 30 trade sent him to Oakland.
Jermaine Dye's fourth-inning single drove in Guillen from second base to give the A's a 4-3 lead. Dye also had a run-scoring single in the second for Oakland, which entered the night with a 21/2-game lead over Seattle in the AL West.
Hudson allowed three runs and seven hits over six innings. He struck out six and walked two.
Ricardo Rincon and Chad Bradford combined to throw three shutout innings in relief for Oakland.
Alex Rodriguez drove in two runs for the Rangers, who've lost eight of nine.
The A's grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning against R.A. Dickey (8-8) on Durazo's 18th homer.
Texas had three consecutive hits against Hudson, capped by Rodriguez's two-run single.
Oakland came back to take a 3-2 lead in the second on RBI singles by Dye and Mark Ellis.
The Rangers tied it at 3 in the second on Jermaine Clark's run-scoring single, his first major league hit and RBI. Clark had gone hitless in his first 16 at bats.
Dickey allowed four runs and six hits over four innings.
OAKLANDTEXAS
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MEllis 2b5121MYong 2b4110
Durazo dh5223Blalock 3b5130
EChavz 3b5000ARdrgz ss5012
Tejada ss4120RPlmo dh4010
Httberg 1b4121Txeira 1b4000
JGillen lf5332Nix cf4020
RaHrdz c3100JsJones rf3100
Dye rf4022Laird c3010
Byrnes cf4000JClark lf3021
Totals399139Totals353113
Oakland120100032--9
Texas210000000--3
DP--Oakland 2, Texas 1. LOB--Oakland 6, Texas 9. 2B--JGuillen (7), Blalock (30). HR--Durazo 2 (19), JGuillen (7). SB--Blalock (2). S--MYoung.
IPHRERBBSO
Oakland
THudson W,15-6673326
Rincon1 1-320002
Bradford1 2-320000
Texas
Dickey L,8-8464412
Ramirez210000
BShouse100000
Garcia133301
JPowell132210
HBP--by Ramirez (Hatteberg), by THudson (JsJones). WP--THudson, Garcia. Umpires--Home, Mike Winters; First, Doug Eddings; Second, Ron Kulpa; Third, Bruce Froemming. T--3:01. A--26,192.