Daal Records His First Oriole Victory

Omar Daal gave up five hits over seven innings to help the Baltimore Orioles beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 4-1, Sunday at Baltimore.

Daal (1-1), the former Dodger who was signed as a free agent in the off-season, won for the first time in four starts. Overall, he was winless in eight starts since defeating Houston on Aug. 31, 2002.

He allowed one run and retired 16 of the final 17 batters he faced. It was the first victory for a Baltimore left-handed starter since Chuck McElroy defeated Minnesota on April 28, 2001.

The Orioles have won four of five. With a victory in tonight’s series finale, they would reach .500 for the first time since Aug. 23.

Bench coach Sam Perlozzo managed the Orioles in place of Mike Hargrove, who left the team Sunday morning to be with his ailing mother in Perryton, Texas.

Kansas City 4, Detroit 3 -- Desi Relaford scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth on Carlos Pena’s throwing error to hand the Tigers their 16th loss in 17 games this season.

The Royals extended the best start in franchise history to 14-3 and are 8-0 at Kauffman Stadium, the only undefeated team at home this season. The Tigers matched the worst start in the majors since Kansas City in 1992.

Texas 2, Oakland 1 -- Carl Everett homered to right field -- not far from where a fan threw a cell phone that hit him in the head a day earlier -- to break a 1-1 tie at Oakland as the Rangers wrapped up a 19-game stretch against AL West rivals to start the season. Texas won eight of those games.

Everett has homered in the last five games in which he batted, setting a club record.

Boston 6, Toronto 5 -- Nomar Garciaparra led off the bottom of the ninth inning with a home run and the Red Sox rallied from a five-run deficit to extend their winning streak to seven games. The Blue Jays have lost 10 of 11.

New York 8, Minnesota 2 -- Mike Mussina pitched seven strong innings, and Jason Giambi and Bernie Williams homered at Minneapolis to give the Yankees their 12th consecutive victory over the Twins. Joe Torre got his 700th victory as manager of the Yankees.

Cleveland 7, Chicago 4 -- Ellis Burks, Shane Spencer and Karim Garcia homered at Chicago to help the Indians end their losing streak at four and stop the White Sox’s winning streak at four.