Jones’ Heroics Spark Twins, 7-4

Jacque Jones hit a three-run homer with one out in the ninth inning on Tuesday night to lift Minnesota to a 7-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays at Minneapolis.

Minnesota has rallied for 10 of its 13 victories and the Twins improved to 9-6 when their opponents score first. This time, they trailed by three runs in the eighth inning.

“We always make it interesting,” Jones said. “It’d be nice to get a five- or six-run lead and not have to come back. But it doesn’t matter how we win, as long as we win.”

Torii Hunter tied it with a run-scoring single one batter before Jones sent a 1-2 pitch from Justin Speier into the left-field seats for his team-leading fourth home run.

Shannon Stewart led off the ninth with a single on a hard grounder that third baseman Chris Gomez couldn’t handle. He advanced to third on Doug Mientkiewicz’s single to right and scored two batters later when Hunter singled up the middle to make it 4-4. Juan Rincon (3-0) worked two scoreless innings for the victory.

New York 10, Oakland 8 -- Pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra delivered a go-ahead, two-run double down the left-field line, highlighting a six-run rally in the eighth inning that sent the Yankees past the Athletics at New York.

Derek Jeter went 0 for 3, extending his hitless streak to 28 at-bats.

Seattle 7, Baltimore 5 -- Dan Wilson homered in the fourth and drove in the tiebreaking run in the seventh, helping the Mariners stop a five-game skid.

Ron Villone (2-0) pitched 1 2/3 innings and Eddie Guardado got four outs for his third save. Rodrigo Lopez (1-1) got the loss.

Texas 3, Kansas City 2 -- R. A. Dickey gave up four hits over 6 1/3 innings and the Rangers won at Kansas City, Mo., where they had lost nine consecutive games.

Dickey (3-1) walked three and struck out one as the Rangers won for the sixth time in seven games. It was the 10th loss in 12 games for the Royals.

Cleveland 11, Chicago 7 -- Casey Blake hit a go-ahead, run-scoring double in the 10th inning and Omar Vizquel had four hits and drove in two runs to lead the Indians at Chicago.

Tampa Bay at Boston, ppd., rain -- The game will be made up Thursday as part of a day-night doubleheader.