AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Tough Night for Ryan: He Loses and Is Ejected

A near-capacity crowd of 36,712 couldn’t believe it.

Nolan Ryan was ejected in the eighth inning of the Texas Rangers’ game against the Oakland Athletes Thursday night at Arlington, Tex., after he hit Willie Wilson with a pitch.

The game, which Oakland won, 2-0, was interrupted for nearly 10 minutes after booing fans littered the field with cups and food wrappers. Players poured onto the field from both benches, but there was no brawl.

Ryan (5-5) had held the A’s to six hits and struck out 12 when he was ejected by home plate umpire Rich Garcia. Ryan was replaced by Edwin Nunez.

Jose Canseco was ejected in the sixth inning after he argued with Garcia about his third strikeout of the game.

Wilson and Ryan had engaged in a brief shouting match after Wilson tripled off the center-field wall in the seventh. Wilson and Walt Weiss, whom Ryan walked, scored on Jerry Browne’s double.

Ranger officials said they didn’t know the last time Ryan had been ejected.

Toronto 15, Detroit 11--Joe Carter drove in four runs, three with a fifth-inning homer, and scored three as the Blue Jays outslugged the slumping Tigers at Detroit.

The Tigers lost for the 11th time in 13 games, falling a season-worst 12 games under .500.

Jack Morris (14-4) won for the 10th time in 11 decisions, but allowed six runs, nine hits and five walks in five innings.

Frank Tanana (9-7) got shelled for Detroit, giving up eight runs in only 2 1/3 innings. He gave up five hits, including two homers, and walked three.

Morris moved ahead of Tanana for third place among active pitchers with 230 victories.

Chicago 5, Minnesota 3--George Bell had two singles, a double and scored twice as the White Sox completed a three-game sweep of the Twins at Chicago.

Shawn Abner gave the White Sox the lead for good in the fourth with a two-run single that broke a 1-1 tie.

Boston 3, New York 1--Frank Viola (10-7) pitched four-hit ball for 8 2/3 innings as the Red Sox took advantage of a couple of fielding breaks and won at New York.

Left fielder Randy Velarde turned John Marzano’s second-inning hit in the corner into an RBI triple, the catcher’s first triple in 423 major league at-bats. Then, after Scott Cooper doubled against Melido Perez (9-11) in the seventh, center fielder Roberto Kelly bobbled Marzano’s single for an error that allowed Cooper to score. Bob Zupcic added an RBI single in the eighth.

Milwaukee 4, Seattle 2--Jaime Navarro (12-7) allowed one run in 7 1/3 innings and the Brewers turned a double steal into two sixth-inning runs to complete a three-game sweep of the Mariners at Milwaukee.