American League Roundup : Stewart Gets 13th Win for Athletics

Dave Stewart became the American League’s first 13-game winner as the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals, 1-0, Monday night at Oakland. Dave Parker provided the only run Stewart needed when he drove in Dave Henderson with a double in the third inning.

Stewart (13-4) gave up four hits in eight-plus innings, struck out seven and walked none. He retired 20 consecutive batters from the second inning until Matt Winters walked with two out in the eighth.

Todd Burns entered in the ninth and struck out Bo Jackson. Rick Honeycutt got the final two outs for his 10th save.

Mark Gubicza (8-6) pitched his major league-leading eighth complete game, giving up six hits, striking out nine and walking one. It was the 17th time in 19 starts that he has pitched into the seventh inning.

Oakland, which has won four in a row, scored the only run when Dave Henderson lined a one-out single to right and Danny Tartabull misplayed it for a two-base error. Parker followed with a double over Tartabull’s head.

Baltimore 11, Detroit 4--Mickey Tettleton hit a three-run homer and Phil Bradley had three hits and drove in three runs as the Orioles got a season-high 15 hits at Baltimore.

With the Orioles leading, 5-3, in the fourth, Tettleton hit his 20th home run of the season off Mike Schwabe. Tettleton also drove in a run in the first inning on a groundout.

Bradley doubled and scored in the first, drew a bases-loaded walk in the second, singled and scored in the fourth, and tripled in two runs in the fifth. He was replaced in the seventh without getting a chance to hit for the cycle. He has hit in seven consecutive games and has 26 hits in his last 69 at-bats, a .378 average.

Baltimore scored at least one run in each of the first six innings and every starter had at least one hit.

Doyle Alexander (4-8) gave up five runs and six hits in 3 1/3 innings. He also walked four and hit one batter. He is 0-4 in seven starts since May 29.

Mike Smith won his first major league decision, pitching four scoreless innings in his second appearance for the Orioles. He gave up eight runs in 1 2/3 innings in his first outing last week.

Milwaukee 8, New York 5--Teddy Higuera won for the 11th time in 13 decisions against the Yankees, and the Brewers got 16 hits at New York.

Higuera (3-2) gave up 10 hits and four runs in eight-plus innings, striking out six and walking none. Dan Plesac finished for his 20th save in 25 opportunities.

“I’m not feeling in the best of shape,” said Higuera, who had off-season back surgery and is throwing with a tender forearm, a blister on his left index finger and a sprained left ankle. “I’m about 90%. But I’m getting there.”

Milwaukee, which had 14 hits in Sunday’s 10-2 victory over the Yankees, trailed, 2-1, before rallying for five runs in the sixth off Dave Eiland (1-2) and Greg Cadaret. Greg Brock and Mike Felder hit RBI doubles, B.J. Surhoff had a run-scoring single and Jim Gantner a two-run single.

Toronto 3, Boston 2--Pat Borders’ run-scoring single tied the game and Rob Murphy’s wild pitch scored the go-ahead run as the Blue Jays rallied for two runs in the seventh inning at Toronto and ended a three-game losing streak.

John Cerutti (4-4) won and Duane Ward pitched two hitless innings for his sixth save.

Cleveland 4, Chicago 2--Joe Carter and Cory Snyder hit consecutive run-scoring singles in the eighth inning at Cleveland as the Indians won for only the fourth time in 13 games.

Cleveland had been 0-34 in games it trailed after seven innings.

Bud Black (7-7) won for the fourth time in his last five decisions, giving up two runs and seven hits in eight innings. Doug Jones finished for his 19th save in 22 opportunities.

Chicago’s Steve Rosenberg left with a 2-1 lead in the seventh after giving up one run and three hits in 6 2/3 innings, the longest outing of his career.