American League Roundup : Homers Help Orioles Beat White Sox, 6-3

Mickey Tettleton and Cal Ripken homered helping Jeff Ballard become the season’s first American League pitcher to beat every other team Monday night as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox, 6-3.

Tettleton, who started for the first time since Aug. 4, gave the Orioles a 2-0 lead with his 23rd home run of the season, and first since Aug. 2, in the first inning. He went on the disabled list for a knee injury Aug. 5 for nearly a month.

Ripken, who drove in the Orioles’ first run with a sacrifice fly, broke the game open with a two-run homer in the fifth for a 6-2 lead. Ripken has three home runs and 10 RBIs in his last nine games. Ballard, the league’s winningest left-hander, improved to 17-7. Gregg Olson pitched the ninth for his 25th save.

The White Sox pulled within 6-3 on a run-scoring double by Ivan Calderon in the sixth. Ron Karkovice had Chicago’s other RBI, driving in a run with a single in the second.

Steve Rosenberg, 4-12, lasted only 1 1/3 innings and gave up three runs, two earned, and four hits.

The Orioles took a 3-2 lead with an unearned run in the second. Mike Devereaux led off with a single, took second on Rosenberg’s wild pickoff and scored on a single by Craig Worthington.

Kansas City 6, Minnesota 1--Larry McWilliams, making his first league start, gave up three hits in six innings and ended his nine-game losing streak as the Royals won at Kansas City.

The Royals pulled to within four games of first-place Oakland in the West.

McWilliams, 35, was acquired in a trade Sept. 2 from the Philadelphia Phillies, where he was 2-11 and had not won since May 13.

Seattle 2, Boston 1--The Mariners ended an 11-game home losing streak beating the Red Sox, 2-1, on six strong innings by Brian Holman and Mike Schooler’s team-record 27th save.

The Mariners stopped a six-game losing string and sent Boston to its sixth straight defeat. The Red Sox fell 10 games behind idle Toronto.