TORONTO " Roy Halladay pitched a five-hitter to best former teammate A.J. Burnett, Scott Rolen had three hits and three RBIs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 5-1 on Tuesday night.
Aaron Hill hit a solo home run for the Blue Jays, who improved to an AL best 23-12.
Halladay (7-1) walked none and struck out five to win his fourth straight start and improve to 16-5 in 33 career games against New York.
Alex Rodriguez had an RBI single in the seventh for the Yankees' run. Burnett (2-1) allowed five runs and seven hits in 7 2-3 innings and has not won since April 14. He walked four and struck out three.
Orioles 7, Rays 5
BALTIMORE (AP) " Adam Jones hit two home runs for the first time in his career and drove in four runs, leading the Baltimore past Tampa Bay.
Jones hit a solo shot in the first inning and a three-run drive in the second. Both homers " his seventh and eighth of the season " came off Andy Sonnanstine (1-4), who had allowed only one home run in 32 2-3 innings this season.
Baltimore trailed 5-1 in the second inning before rallying for its fourth win in six games. Kevin Bass (2-1) pitched four scoreless innings of relief and George Sherrill, the fifth Baltimore pitcher, worked the ninth for his sixth save.
White Sox 7, Indians 4
CLEVELAND (AP) " Jim Thome hit a pair of two-run homers to lead Chicago past Cleveland.
Both home runs were off Indians starter Jeremy Sowers (0-2), and Thome's 42nd multi-homer game gave him 547 for his career. Thome, who entered the game in a 3-for-22 slump, trails Mike Schmidt by one for 13th place on the all-time home run list.
D.J Carrasco (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings in relief and struck out Mark DeRosa and Shin-Soo Choo to work out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth. Bobby Jenks pitched the ninth inning, recording his eighth save in as many chances.
Rangers 7, Mariners 1
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) " Josh Hamilton returned from the disabled list and hit the go-ahead homer in a six-run seventh inning for Texas, which won for the eighth time in 10 games.
Hamilton, activated after missing 13 games with a strained ribcage muscle, struggled in his first three at-bats before his two-run shot off reliever Mark Lowe (0-1) gave the Rangers a 3-1 lead.
Rookie Derek Holland (1-1) pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings to earn his first career victory.
Chris Davis homered for the fourth time in eight games for Texas, and Michael Young had three hits and was on base five times after missing two games with back stiffness.
Twins 6, Tigers 2
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) " Joe Mauer hit a home run, and was robbed of another by Clete Thomas, and Minnesota's struggling bullpen protected a lead for three innings.
Joe Crede homered for the Twins in his first at-bat after missing three games with a hamstring injury.
Jeff Larish and Ramon Santiago homered for Detroit, but Armando Galarraga (3-3) gave up five runs and six hits in 5 2-3 innings. He is 0-5 with a 5.63 ERA in his career against the Twins.
Kevin Slowey (5-1) gave up one run and eight hits in six innings for the Twins. Reliever Jesse Crain gave up a leadoff homer to Santiago to start the seventh, but Jose Mijares, Matt Guerrier and Joe Nathan retired nine straight for an embattled bullpen that surrendered a two-run lead in the eighth against Seattle on Sunday.
Mauer is hitting .500 (16 for 32) despite missing all of spring training and the first 22 games of the season with a back injury.