AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Canseco Wins Game, Wins Over Fans, 5-3

When Jose Canseco stepped to the plate with a runner on base in the 10th inning Saturday at Oakland, he heard the boos.

He was in a slump, with one hit in his previous 13 at-bats and had struck out three times in the game.

Canseco turned the boos to cheers with one swing, sending a pitch from Wayne Edwards into the seats in right-center field for his sixth home run and a 5-3 Athletics’ victory over the Chicago White Sox.

He hit a low fastball to score Lance Blankenship ahead of him and culminate the second comeback in a row for the A’s.

Blankenship reached base on a two-out error by Chicago third baseman Robin Ventura.

“They shouldn’t boo their home players,” Canseco said after the boos changed to cheers. “I was struggling all day. I wasn’t thinking about the boos. I was just trying to adjust to help the team. I had been crowding the plate. I moved off a bit, got a ball down and hit it.”

After Bob Welch blew a 2-0 lead by giving up three runs in the seventh, Rickey Henderson singled home the tying run in the eighth.

Oakland’s Joe Klink (3-2) retired three consecutive batters in the top of the 10th with the potential tying run at second base.

Texas 8, Seattle 6--The Rangers won their 12th in a row in 11 innings on a two-run single by Gary Pettis and a two-run homer by Juan Gonzalez at Seattle.

Brian Downing led off the game with a home run, then hit a solo homer with one out in the ninth to tie it, 4-4, for Texas. The Rangers extended the longest winning streak in team history and stayed unbeaten since May 11.

Ruben Sierra singled off Russ Swan (1-1) for his fourth hit of the game with two outs in the 11th, and Julio Franco doubled. Pettis hit the go-ahead single and Gonzalez followed with his sixth home run for an 8-4 lead.

Cleveland 5, Milwaukee 4--A fan and Brewers’ right fielder Dante Bichette helped the Indians win at Milwaukee.

Carlos Baerga of the Indians was credited with a three-run home run in the sixth inning when a fan interfered with his drive down the right-field line.

“Now, we’ll never know if it would have been foul,” Milwaukee Manager Tom Trebelhorn said.

In the ninth with one out and one on, Bichette dropped Brook Jacoby’s fly for an error and the Indians scored twice to win it.

Felix Fermin singled home the go-ahead run with two out.

Detroit 3, Boston 2--Rob Deer hit his 10th home run, his second in two days at Detroit, and Mike Henneman was brilliant in relief.

Henneman came to the rescue of Walt Terrell (2-4) with runners on first and third and one out in the seventh inning.

Henneman induced Carlos Quintana to hit into a double play to end the threat. He completed his first save since May 1 when pinch-hitter Jack Clark was called out on a 3-and-2 pitch. Clark was so incensed he threw down his bat and helmet and had to be restrained by Red Sox coaches.

Clark, batting only .224, just served a one-game suspension for a similar incident last season when he was with San Diego.

“It was a brutal pitch,” Red Sox Manager Joe Morgan said. “It was shin high. You hate to lose on a called third strike on the ground.”

Wade Boggs, who had his worst season a year ago, batting only .302, had two of the Boston hits, scored a run and raised his average to .338.

New York 6, Baltimore 5--Roberto Kelly singled in the tie-breaking run in the ninth inning at Baltimore to make Johnny Oates’ record as Orioles’ manager 0-2.

The Yankees overcame a 3-0 lead. One of their runs came on Don Mattingly’s third homer.

The Orioles scored in the bottom of the ninth off Lee Guetterman and had the tying run on base. But Cal Ripken Jr., who earlier homered and doubled, popped out to end the game.

Kansas City 11, Minnesota 2--Kurt Stillwell hit a grand slam at Minneapolis to give Royals’ Manager Hal McRae a 1-1 record.

Stillwell, who drove in five runs, climaxed a five-run ninth. Brian McRae, son of the new manager, started the ninth with a double and scored on George Brett’s single.

In his second game since coming off the disabled list, Brett was two for three and scored three runs.

Mark Gubicza, in his second game back from a serious injury, made it into the sixth inning to get the victory.