AL Roundup: Twins Beat White Sox

MINNEAPOLIS - Coming off the 18th perfect game in major league history, Mark Buehrle retired the first 17 batters on Tuesday to set a record with 45 consecutive outs before the Minnesota Twins rallied for a 5-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

Buehrle (11-4) lost what would have been his second straight perfect game and his no-hitter with two outs in the sixth. He wound up allowing five runs and five hits in 6 1-3 innings.

He surpassed the mark of 41 straight batters set by San Francisco's Jim Barr in 1972 and tied by Buehrle's teammate Bobby Jenks, a reliever, in 2007.

Nick Punto had a two-run single and Brendan Harris added an RBI single in Minnesota's four-run seventh to move the Twins (51-50) into a tie with the White Sox for second place in the American League Central.

Buehrle walked Alexi Casilla on a close call with two outs in the sixth and Denard Span followed with a single to center to break up the no-hitter, ending Buehrle's bid to join Cincinnati's Johnny VanderMeer in 1938 as the only pitcher to throw consecutive no-hitters.
Athletics 9, Red Sox 8, 11 innings

At Boston, Rajai Davis singled home Mark Ellis in the ninth inning to send the game into extra innings, then did it again in the 11th to give Oakland the win over Boston.

Boston led 7-4 when Jonathan Papelbon blew just his third save in 28 opportunities, thanks in part to two ninth-inning throwing errors by shortstop Nick Green. It was still 7-7 with two outs in the 11th when Ellis doubled off Manny Delcarmen (2-2) and scored on Davis' single to right.

Davis scored on Adam Kennedy's career-high fifth hit to make it 9-7. Craig Breslow (4-4) pitched a perfect 10th for the win, and Andrew Bailey earned his 12th save despite giving one run back in the 11th.

Ellis had four of the A's 21 hits, and Orlando Cabrera had three. Kevin Youkilis had three hits for Boston.
Rays 6, Yankees 2

At St. Petersburg, Florida, Scott Kazmir outpitched CC Sabathia to win for the first time in more than two months as Tampa Bay downed New York.

Evan Longoria hit a solo homer and Carl Crawford had an RBI triple off Sabathia (10-7), and AL East-leading New York lost for just the second time in 12 games since the All-Star break.

Kazmir (5-6) took a four-hitter into the eighth inning to win for the first time since May 9, against Boston.
Rangers 7, Tigers 3

At Arlington,Texas, Ian Kinsler drove in three runs and rookie Elvis Andrus homered and had three as Texas trounced Detroit.

Kinsler, who was in a huge funk at the plate that shrunk his batting average from .272 to .242., highlighted a four-run second with a two-run triple. Kinsler had just 16 hits in his last 103 at-bats.

Detroit is 4-8 since the All-Star break and has scored three runs or less eight times in that span.

Ex-Tiger Jason Grilli (1-1) pitched two perfect innings of relief to get the win. The Rangers' bullpen shut out the Tigers on one hit over the final five innings.

Doug Mathis made his second start of the season and sixth of his career for Texas in place of Vicente Padilla, still weak from swine flu and scratched from the start about 3 1/2 hours prior to the game.
Royals 4, Orioles 3, 11 innings

At Baltimore, Mark Teahen led off the 11th inning with a 45-foot single and scored on a single by John Buck as Kansas City edged Baltimore.

Billy Butler hit a two-run homer and Willie Bloomquist added a solo shot for Kansas City.

Teahen opened the 11th by topping a ball down the first-base line. Catcher Matt Wieters and pitcher Danys Baez (4-4) watched the ball stop on the chalk halfway down the line.

Teahen stole second and scored on Buck's hit a two-out liner to right.

Wieters had a career-high four hits for the Orioles, who have lost nine of 11 since the All-Star break.
Angels 7, Indians 6

At Anaheim, California, Gary Matthews Jr. hit a tiebreaking three-run double in the eighth inning as the Los Angeles Angels survived another meltdown by Cleveland's All-Star closer Brian Fuentes for their major league-leading 33rd comeback victory.

Juan Rivera's RBI single tied it earlier in the eighth for the Angels, whose latest remarkable rally made up for another poor performance by their starting rotation and closer. Matthews capped the comeback with a two-out drive to left-center off reliever Tony Sipp, the Indians' third pitcher of the inning.

Fuentes, the major league leader with 30 saves, fell apart for the second straight night, giving up two runs.

Peralta homered and drove in two runs, and Ben Francisco homered as the Indians lost for the second time in eight games.
Mariners 4, Blue Jays 3

At Seattle, Ichiro Suzuki singled with two outs in the ninth to score Rob Johnson as Seattle beat Toronto to snap a four-game losing streak.

Suzuki golfed the pitch nearly off the dirt and in front of center fielder Vernon Wells for the first game-ending hit of his career.

David Aardsma (3-3) got the win pitching the ninth. He allowed a leadoff single but retired the next three batters.

Jack Hannahan singled off Downs (1-3)