AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Tettleton’s Sixth RBI Lifts Tigers in 12th

Mickey Tettleton tied a career high with six runs batted in, including home runs from each side of the plate and the game-winning hit in the 12th inning as the Detroit Tigers rallied from a six-run deficit to beat the New York Yankees, 7-6, Friday night at Detroit.

Tettleton had a two-run homer batting left-handed in the seventh, a three-run homer batting right-handed in the eighth to tie the score, 6-6, and hit a bases-loaded single deep to center to score Travis Fryman in the 12th.

Fryman started the 12th by walking on a 3-and-2 pitch and went to second on a wild pitch by Scott Kamieniecki (0-1) that ran the count to 1-and-1 on Cecil Fielder. Fielder was then given an intentional walk, bringing up Rob Deer, who walked on four pitches to load the bases with nobody out.

Tettleton worked the count to 3-and-1, then drove the ball to the warning track over the heads of the drawn-in Yankee outfield.

Kamieniecki, the fourth Yankee pitcher, took over from Rich Monteleone, who had worked three scoreless innings.

Bob MacDonald (1-1) pitched the last three innings for the Tigers. He gave up two hits and struck out four.

It was the second time in his career Tettleton had homered from both sides of the plate. The first was June 13, 1988, at Tiger Stadium while playing for the Baltimore Orioles.

Kansas City 9, Texas 4--Nolan Ryan was hit hard in his return from the disabled list, giving up six runs in the first inning at Kansas City.

The Rangers made three errors, one by Ryan, as the Royals ended Texas’ four-game winning streak.

Ryan (1-2) gave up seven hits over four innings in his first start since undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery April 15. He walked three and struck out one.

Center fielder Brian McRae made a spectacular, running catch in left-center with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth to rob Doug Strange and save three runs for starter Hipolito Pichardo (2-1).

Toronto 3, Baltimore 2--Darrin Jackson’s run-scoring single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Blue Jays the victory at Toronto to spoil a strong effort by Fernando Valenzuela.

Joe Carter led off the ninth with a single off Todd Frohwirth (1-2) and Darnell Coles advanced him to second with a sacrifice. Jackson hit the next pitch into right field to score Carter without a throw as Mark McLemore had the ball bounce under his glove.

Mark Eichhorn (2-0) pitched three perfect innings in relief.

Valenzuela gave up six hits and two runs in eight innings. He walked two and struck out three.

Chicago 6, Cleveland 5--Wilson Alvarez, who had five victories last season in 34 games, won his third consecutive start for the White Sox at Chicago.

Alvarez (3-0) gave up nine hits and four runs in seven innings, striking out a season-high eight batters. Roberto Hernandez, the fourth Chicago pitcher, got the last two outs for his fifth save.

Thomas, entering the game batting .239, scored a first-inning run, singled in a run in the third, and scored the go-ahead run after hitting a single in a three-run fifth off Charles Nagy (2-5). Nagy pitched 4 1/3 innings, giving up 12 hits and all six runs.

Boston 1, Milwaukee 0--Danny Darwin pitched three-hit ball for eight innings to lift the Red Sox at Milwaukee.

Darwin (2-4) entered the game with a 6.85 earned-run average, and had not gone more than six innings in any of his five previous starts. But he gave up only singles to Greg Vaughn in the first, Billy Spiers in the fourth and John Jaha in the eighth.

The Red Sox got an unearned run run off Bill Wegman (2-5) in the second as Carlos Quintana singled and moved to second when center fielder Matt Mieske missed the ball for an error. Quintana went to third on a grounder and scored on Ivan Calderon’s sacrifice fly.

Minnesota 5, Seattle 4--Pinch-hitter Randy Randy Bush singled with one out in the top of the ninth to score Kent Hrbek and the Twins held on at Seattle.

Minnesota has won four of its last five games and ended Seattle’s three-game home winning streak.

With the score tied, 4-4, Hrbek batted for Pedro Munoz and walked against Russ Swan (1-2). Gene Larkin singled Hrbek to third and Bush, batting for Terry Jorgensen, greeted Rich DeLucia with a run-scoring single. Mark Guthrie (2-1) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings for the victory and Rick Aguilera pitched the ninth for his ninth save.