AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Tigers Beat Mariners for First Home Victory

The Detroit Tigers finally made themselves at home at home.

Bill Gullickson, who has never lost to the Seattle Mariners, pitched a five-hitter Tuesday night and the Tigers, after losing all eight previous games at Tiger Stadium, ended the slump with a 4-1 victory.

Gullickson (3-2) is now 6-0 against the Mariners. During the third inning, Dan Gladden tripled home two runs and Alan Trammell followed with a double for the Tigers, who had not led during their eight previous home games.

Gullickson lost his shutout when Pete O’Brien hit the first pitch in the fifth inning for a home run. But thereafter he had everything under control.

Kansas City 3, Milwaukee 2--Former Angel Wally Joyner led off the 11th inning at Milwaukee with his first home run of the season. It gave the Royals two victories in a row after they lost 16 of their first 17 games.

Joyner, a left-handed hitter, connected against left-handed reliever Jesse Orosco. Bill Wegman held the Royals to five hits in 10 innings.

Neal Heaton (2-1) retired the last eight Brewers to get the victory.

Boston 6, Chicago 3--Roger Clemens shut down the White Sox on one run for seven innings and struck out nine to improve to 3-2.

With temperatures in the mid-30s, Clemens departed after the Red Sox scored twice during the seventh to lead by 6-1. Clemens had thrown 119 pitches.

After five starts, Clemens has an earned-run average of 1.38.

The Red Sox scored twice against former Angel Kirk McCaskill (1-3) during the firstinning.

“You can’t give Roger Clemens a head start like that,” McCaskill said. “He’s amazing. He comes right at you, and if you get a hit he either gets a strikeout or a double play or something.”

Oakland 3, Cleveland 1--The return of Carney Lansford, who played only five games last season, has helped the Athletics to a fast start.

Lansford hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two out in the ninth inning at Cleveland to give Mike Moore (4-0) his ninth consecutive victory.

Dennis Eckersley struck out the side in the bottom of the ninth to earn his seventh save in seven tries.

Moore, who got 18 outs on grounders, gave up seven hits in eight innings.

The Athletics managed only one run and five hits against Charles Nagy in eight innings.

Lansford sat out most of last season because of a snowmobile accident. The third baseman denied the resulting knee problem had made him a slower.

“I may be a step slower,” Lansford said, “but it’s because I’m 35 and put on weight doing the weightlifting. The knee is fine.”

He is batting .362.

Texas 1, New York 0--Kevin Brown of the Rangers out-dueled Tim Leary of the Yankees on a cold night in New York.

Brown (4-1) gave up a run-scoring single to Al Newman during the second inning.

Brown gave up two singles in eight innings, but reliever Kenny Rogers gave up a double to Mel Hall in the ninth. Jeff Russell got the last out for his sixth save.

Baltimore 10, Minnesota 5--The Orioles’ Cal Ripken Jr. finally hit his first home run of the season, a two-run shot at Minneapolis.

It is the latest in the season Ripken ever hit his first home run. He hit 34 home runs last season.

Mike Mussina (3-0) gave up five hits in seven innings as the Orioles improved to 12-8.