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AMERICAN LEAGUE

Rays 10, Orioles 5

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Carlos Pena homered twice and drew a bases-loaded walk in the eighth inning to finish with six RBIs, helping the Tampa Bay Rays rally. Pena hit a two-run homer off Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie in the first. He made it 5-5 in the seventh with a three-run shot off left-hander Jamie Walker, who entered the game after Guthrie retired the first batter of the inning. The 2007 AL comeback player of the year when he hit 46 homers and drove in 121 runs, Pena has five homers in 10 games this season. He drew the bases-loaded walk off Dennis Sarfate (2-1) on a check swing that could have been called a third strike to put Tampa Bay ahead 6-5.

Yankees 4, Red Sox 1

BOSTON — Chien-Ming Wang added an outstanding pitching performance to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry — a two-hit complete game. In the teams’ first meeting of the season, Wang gave up only a home run by J.D. Drew that was nearly caught and a bunt single. Wang (3-0) allowed only one other runner, on an error. In his previous start, he went six innings in the Yankees’ 2-0 win over Tampa Bay. A struggling Jason Giambi gave New York a 2-1 lead with a leadoff homer in the seventh inning off Mike Timlin (0-1). Jose Molina then doubled, took third on Alberto Gonzalez’s sacrifice and scored on Melky Cabrera’s sacrifice fly.

Twins 5, Royals 0

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Livan Hernandez scattered seven hits over seven innings to win his third straight start. Six of the hits Hernandez allowed were singles. He struck out three and walked one, lowered his earned run average to 2.57, and is 3-0 for the first time since 2002, when he won his first four starts for San Francisco. Carlos Gomez doubled, tripled and drove in two runs, while Justin Morneau homered to lead off the third inning on the first pitch from Gil Meche. Morneau also hit a three-run homer off Meche last Saturday in a 6-4 Twins victory. The Twins sent eight men to the plate in a four-run second, highlighted by Gomez’s double that scored Brendan Harris and Denard Span. Span drove in Delmon Young for the first run of the inning and Span’s first career RBI, and Gomez scored on Matt Tolbert’s two-out single.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Phillies 5, Cubs 3

PHILADELPHIA — Pat Burrell hit a two-run homer and had a tiebreaking double in the sixth inning, helping the Philadelphia Phillies snap the Chicago Cubs’ five-game winning streak. Brett Myers pitched eight strong innings to earn his first win since moving back into the starting rotation. Myers (1-1) allowed three runs on solo homers, five hits and struck out five. Derrek Lee, Aramis Ramirez and Alfonso Soriano connected off Myers, who finished last season as Philadelphia’s closer. Brad Lidge pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save. Carlos Zambrano (1-1) gave up five runs and nine hits in six innings. Zambrano pitched on regular rest, even though he moved up a day after Jason Marquis was scratched due to illness.

Mets 4, Brewers 2

NEW YORK — Nelson Figueroa earned his first major league win in five years, and the Mets got a good effort from their bullpen to win their third straight. Carlos Delgado hit one of New York’s three RBI singles. Prince Fielder and J.J. Hardy each had an RBI double for the Brewers, who dropped their third straight after opening the season 6-1. Brewers starter Manny Parra (1-1), who pitched a perfect game for Triple-A Nashville last June, allowed three runs and six hits in four innings.

Braves 3, Nationals 0

WASHINGTON — Tim Hudson scattered three hits over eight innings to improve to 6-1 all-time against the Nationals, outpitching Washington starter Matt Chico. Hudson (2-0) struck out five and walked two in improving to 6-1 all-time against the Nationals. Yunel Escobar hit a solo home run in the sixth inning, and the Braves added two runs in the ninth on a bases-loaded single by Matt Diaz. Chico (0-2) gave Washington eight strong innings, allowing one run and five hits with a walk and three strikeouts. It was the longest outing of his career, but his only pitch to Escobar in the sixth inning cost him the game. Peter Moylan retired the side in the ninth for his first save of the season.

Associated Press