American League Roundup : Yankees Beat Correa, Pass Brewers

The New York Yankees caught up with Edwin Correa and passed the Milwaukee Brewers.

Don Mattingly hit his first career grand slam, and Rickey Henderson and Claudell Washington also hit homers, helping the Yankees score a 9-1 victory over the Texas Rangers Thursday at New York.

The win moved the Yankees into first place in the East, a half-game ahead of Milwaukee.

Correa (1-4) held New York hitless for 7 innings on the way to a 3-1 victory April 28 at Arlington, Tex., but the Yankees were waiting for him this time.

“We wanted to beat him because he shut us down last time,” Henderson said. “We couldn’t hit him.”

In the rematch, the Yankees pounded the 21-year-old right-hander for 7 runs on 5 hits and 5 walks in 3 innings.

Baltimore 4, Kansas City 3--Terry Kennedy hit a leadoff homer in the eighth inning at Baltimore, and the Orioles handed the Royals’ Bret Saberhagen his first defeat after six victories.

Kennedy’s fourth game-winning RBI made a winner of reliever Dave Schmidt (4-1).

The Royals scored three runs in the sixth to tie the score. With one out, Larry Owen doubled off the left-field wall, and Angel Salazar followed with his first major league homer. Kevin Seitzer walked, took third on George Brett’s single and scored on Juan Beniquez’s grounder.

Toronto 16, Minnesota 4--Lloyd Moseby collected four hits and four RBIs as the Blue Jays pounded 20 hits while trouncing the Twins at Minneapolis.

Dave Stieb (2-2) pitched 5 innings to get the victory, allowing 3 runs on 4 hits and 4 walks.

Willie Upshaw’s sixth home run of the season, a 432-foot blast to center, put Toronto ahead to stay, 3-2, in the fourth. Toronto broke the game open with two runs in the fifth and five in the sixth, highlighted by Moseby’s two-run double. He also hit his fifth homer of the season in the first.

Chicago 4, Cleveland 3--Carlton Fisk singled home Donnie Hill from second base with one out in the ninth inning at Chicago, and the White Sox beat the Indians in a meeting of the AL’s last-place teams.

The White Sox tied the score in the eighth when Daryl Boston singled, stole second and scored on Greg Walker’s two-out single.

Cleveland took a 3-1 lead in the sixth on RBI singles by Brook Jacoby and Cory Snyder, and Gary Redus hit his third homer for the White Sox in the bottom of the inning to make it 3-2.