AL ROUNDUP Twins wallop Tigers; Yanks win

The White Sox were shut out by the Angels.
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DETROIT -- Justin Morneau homered and the Minnesota Twins roughed up Justin Verlander in an 11-3 win over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday.
Morneau had three hits and scored three times for the Twins, who reached base 23 times -- 17 hits, five walks and a hit by pitch -- against five Tigers pitchers. Every player in their lineup had at least one hit, and six had at least two.
Verlander (1-1) had his first poor outing of the year, allowing five runs -- three earned -- and eight hits in three innings. He came into the game with a 2.08 ERA, third-best among American League starters.
Carlos Silva (2-1) wasn't sharp either, allowing 10 hits and a walk in six innings, but he held the Tigers to three runs.
The Twins scored four times in the second, helped by first baseman Sean Casey's throwing error, and added a fifth run in the third on Morneau's sixth homer.
Rangers 9, Blue Jays 8
TORONTO -- Hank Blalock atoned for an earlier error with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to lift Texas to the win.
Michael Young hit a one-out double in the 10th and stole third. Mark Teixeira walked and Sammy Sosa was given a free pass from Brian Tallet (0-1) before Blalock flied out to the warning track in center to drive in Young.
Akinori Otsuka (1-0) got the win despite giving up the tying run in the ninth. Joaquin Benoit worked the 10th for his first save, getting John McDonald to fly out to center with runners on first and second to end the game.
Teixeira and Gerald Laird homered for Texas.
Yankees 3, Red Sox 1
NEW YORK -- Banished to the bullpen, Kei Igawa saved the struggling Yankees when they desperately needed him.
Igawa (2-1) shut out Boston for six-plus innings after replacing injured starter Jeff Karstens in the first, and New York snapped a seven-game losing streak.
Jorge Posada hit a two-run homer off knuckleballer Tim Wakefield (2-3) and Mariano Rivera earned his first save to help the Yankees avoid their first eight-game skid since August 1995.
The slump had owner George Steinbrenner seething in Florida, and it raised questions about manager Joe Torre's job security. But the Yankees (9-13) got what they needed -- a well-pitched game, even though they lost yet another starter to injury.
Yankees captain Derek Jeter had three hits for the second consecutive game.
Athletics 12, Devil Rays 5
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Travis Buck hit a three-run homer in Oakland's six-run first and Eric Chavez had a three-run drive in the seventh.
Mark Ellis added his first homer of the year for the Athletics. Dan Haren (3-2) struck out a season-high seven and allowed two earned runs in 71/3 innings to win his third straight start.
The runs were the second-most of the season for the A's behind a 16-4 showing April 20 at Texas.
Angels 3, White Sox 0
CHICAGO -- Jered Weaver pitched 52/3 innings for his first win of the season and Gary Matthews Jr. led off the game with a home run to help Los Angeles.
Weaver was 11-2 with a 2.56 ERA last season as a rookie, but started this year on the disabled list as he recovered from biceps tendinitis in his throwing arm.