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INDIANS 6, TIGERS 5

CLEVELAND - Jamey Carroll's RBI single in the 13th inning gave Cleveland a 6-5 victory over Detroit and capped an emotional Friday for the Indians, who traded popular All-Star catcher Victor Martinez to Boston shortly before the non-waiver deadline.

Carroll sliced his single off rookie Casey Fien (0-1) just inside the first-base bag to score Jhonny Peralta, who opened the 13th with a double.

Toma Ohka (1-4), the Indians' sixth reliever, pitched three scoreless innings for his first win since April 29, 2007, when he was with Toronto.

Peralta and Trevor Crowe both had three hits as the Indians won for the seventh time in 10 games.

Carlos Guillen hit a two-run homer off closer Kerry Wood in the ninth for the Tigers. It was the second homer for Guillen, who returned last week after missing 68 games with a shoulder injury.

Angels 11, Twins 5

MINNEAPOLIS - Howie Kendrick's pinch-hit RBI single started Los Angeles' six-run 11th inning and the Angels recorded their major league-leading 34th comeback victory.

The Angels, who have come from behind in 13 of their past 18 victories, had six hits and two walks against three Minnesota relievers before making an out in the 11th inning.

Kevin Jepsen (3-2) pitched two innings of scoreless relief for the Angels.

Mike Napoli, who had four hits, tied the game 5-5 with a homer in the Angels' eighth, his fifth homer in 10 games. Bobby Abreu had a homer among three hits and drove in four.

Joe Mauer homered and had three hits for the Twins.

Bobby Keppel (0-1) walked Erick Aybar on four pitches to open the 11th. After a hit-and-run single by Gary Matthews Jr., Kendrick hit a ground ball to shortstop Brendan Harris, who stumbled attempting to throw home and Kendrick had an RBI single.

Red Sox 6, Orioles 5

BALTIMORE - Kevin Youkilis put Boston ahead with a two-run homer in the seventh inning, and David Ortiz and Jacoby Ellsbury also connected.

John Smoltz (2-4) earned his second victory in seven starts for Boston despite allowing five runs and eight hits in six innings. Jonathan Papelbon worked the ninth for his 27th save.

Nolan Reimold and Aubrey Huff homered for Baltimore. Huff's was the 200th of his career, a sixth-inning drive with a man on that put the Orioles in front 5-4.

Youkilis wiped out the deficit in the next inning, homering off Jeremy Guthrie (7-10) after Ellsbury singled. Ellsbury and Youkilis both had three hits.

Guthrie yielded all three Boston homers, upping his AL-leading total to 26. He gave up six runs and nine hits in 6 2-3 innings.

White Sox 10, Yankees 5

CHICAGO - Carlos Quentin homered and had a go-ahead RBI double and Chris Getz delivered a two-run, bases-loaded single for Chicago in its second straight win over New York.

Chicago broke a 5-5 tie in the fifth on Quentin's RBI double off David Robertson (1-1). The White Sox added four in the seventh off Alfredo Aceves. Getz hit the two-out single, Jayson Nix stole home on a double steal after Getz broke from first, and Scott Podsednik added a hard-hop RBI single.

Tony Pena (1-0) got his first victory for the White Sox with two innings of scoreless relief.

Gordon Beckham hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly and Jim Thome followed with a two-run single, putting the White Sox ahead 4-3 in the second. Quentin hit his 10th homer for a 5-3 lead in the bottom of the third.

Eric Hinske, who hadn't played in the previous seven games, hit a two-run homer to tie it in the fourth.

Rays 8, Royals 2

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - David Price allowed one run over seven innings and Carlos Pena hit a three-run homer to lead Tampa Bay.

Price (4-4) gave up five hits and improved to 4-1 at home this year. Pena's homer was his 26th this season, but just the third in July.

Alberto Callaspo extended his hitting streak to 13 games for Kansas City, which has lost 14 of 17. The Royals are 0-7 against Tampa Bay this season.

Pena put the Rays up 3-0 on an opposite-field shot off the left-field pole in the first. The two-out homer came off Sidney Ponson (1-7), who allowed seven runs and eight hits in 4 1-3 innings.

Jason Bartlett of the Rays made it 4-1 on a fourth-inning RBI double. The Rays extended the lead to 7-1 in the fifth when Ben Zobrist drove in a run with a triple, and Pat Burrell and Gabe Gross had RBI singles.

Rangers 5, Mariners 4

ARLINGTON, Texas - Marlon Byrd's three-run homer in the fifth inning broke a tie and sent Texas on to the win.

Seattle took a 2-0 lead in the first on a homer by Jose Lopez, but Taylor Teagarden had a sacrifice fly in the second and added a solo homer in the fifth to tie it.

Texas then got two-out singles from Omar Vizquel and Michael Young before Byrd ripped the first pitch from Jason Vargas (3-5) for his 11th homer.

Heavy rain began falling in the bottom of the seventh, and the game was delayed for 2 hours, 18 minutes.

Vicente Padilla (8-5) allowed three runs and six hits in six innings in his first appearance since July 17, his last start before he was diagnosed with swine flu.

Padilla was scratched from a start on Tuesday night because he was still weak from the illness, and he missed a scheduled start July 22 due to flulike symptoms. Subsequent lab tests revealed that Padilla had H1NI influenza A.

Vizquel had three hits as the Rangers won for the 10th time in 12 games.

Athletics 8, Blue Jays 5

OAKLAND, Calif. - Ryan Sweeney drove in three runs for Oakland and Dallas Braden won for the first time in four starts.

Rajai Davis had two hits and scored twice for the A's, who traded shortstop Orlando Cabrera to the Minnesota Twins earlier in the day.

Braden (8-9) gave up five runs in 6 2-3 innings, but the left-hander hung around long enough to win for the first time since July 11.

Adam Lind had three hits, including a two-run homer in the seventh, for Toronto, which lost its third straight.

Andrew Bailey pitched a scoreless ninth for his ninth consecutive save and 14th overall.

Scott Richmond (6-6) made his first start since missing 21 games while on the disabled list with elbow tendinitis. He lasted three-plus innings and was charged with six runs.