AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Winfield’s Two Homers Lead Twins, 7-4

Dave Winfield homered twice and Kent Hrbek hit a two-run home run at Minneapolis as the Twins had their first three-homer game of the season, beating the Boston Red Sox, 7-4.

Gene Larkin drove in three runs, giving the Twins an 8-4 record since a victory May 1 at Detroit ended an eight-game losing streak.

Jim Deshaies (5-2) gave up five hits and four runs in 6 1/3 innings.

Rick Aguilera, the fourth Minnesota pitcher, worked a scoreless ninth for his 12th save.

John Dopson (2-2) lasted only 2 2/3 innings. Dopson, who had a 1.11 earned-run average in his previous five starts, gave up five runs on six hits and two walks.

Winfield leads all active players with 2,896 hits, 439 homers and 1,733 runs batted in.

This season, he leads the Twins with seven homers and 23 RBIs.

Winfield’s first home run, a line drive to left, made the score 5-3 in the third. After Scott Fletcher’s fifth-inning sacrifice fly pulled Boston within a run, Winfield homered to right against Scott Bankhead in the bottom of the inning.

Cleveland 9, Milwaukee 5--Carlos Martinez hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning and the Indians beat the Brewers at Milwaukee despite two homers by Greg Vaughn.

Dennis Cook (2-1), called upon during the first inning after Charles Nagy gave up a three-run homer to Vaughn, got the victory by pitching six innings.

Cook gave up two runs and five hits.

The Indians broke it open with three runs in the ninth. Wayne Kirby hit a run-scoring triple, Alvaro Espinoza had a run-scoring single and Carlos Baerga had a sacrifice fly.

Baerga hit a run-scoring double and Albert Belle followed with his league-leading 12th homer as Cleveland took a 3-0 lead in the first against Ricky Bones (1-2).

Detroit 5, Baltimore 3--Alan Trammell hit a go-ahead single with two out in the eighth inning to lead the Tigers at Detroit and extend the Orioles’ losing streak to four games.

Alan Mills (0-3) walked Kirk Gibson with two outs in the eighth, and Gibson stole second. Mickey Tettleton was intentionally walked, Trammell lined a single to right that scored Gibson with the go-ahead run, and Rob Deer hit a run-scoring single against Todd Frohwirth.

Bill Krueger (4-1) got the victory, giving up three hits in 2 1/3 innings.

Baltimore made the score 3-3 during the seventh on run-scoring singles by Sherman Abando and David Segui.

Oakland 2, Seattle 1--Lance Blankenship drew a bases-loaded walk during the ninth inning to lift the Athletics at Oakland.

A day after Blankenship singled home the winning run with one out in the 11th, he won another game when he drew Oakland’s fourth walk of the inning from Jeff Nelson (0-1).

Nelson walked Brent Gates and Mike Bordick to start the ninth. After Scott Hemond sacrificed and Rickey Henderson was intentionally walked, Blankenship walked on a 3-and-1 pitch. In two innings, Nelson walked five.

Rich Gossage (3-0), the third Oakland pitcher, worked one inning for the victory.

New York 4, Toronto 3--Mike Stanley, who has won the job as the Yankees’ everyday catcher, drove in two runs and had three hits to lead the Yankees at New York.

Melido Perez (2-2) struggled, giving up three runs and eight hits in eight innings. Steve Farr got three outs for his eighth save.

Stanley gave the Yankees a 4-2 lead with a run-scoring single during the fifth against reliever Woody Williams.

Al Leiter (1-3) gave up four runs in 4 1/3 innings.

Texas 6, Chicago 4--Rafael Palmeiro bounced a home run off the top of the center-field wall during the 11th inning, leading the Rangers past the White Sox at Arlington, Tex.

Ivan Rodriguez singled with one out in the 11th against Barry Jones (0-1), and Palmeiro followed with his fourth homer of the season, preventing the White Sox from gaining their 14th victory in 17 games.

Tom Henke (2-1) gave up one hit in two innings of relief for the victory.

Dean Palmer tied the score with one out in the ninth on a solo homer against White Sox closer Roberto Hernandez. On the previous pitch, Palmer hit a foul pop down the first base line and first baseman Frank Thomas was unable to make the play.