Rangers Rally to Beat Twins

Mark Teixeira singled home the winning run with two out in the ninth inning as the Rangers rallied to beat Minnesota, 5-4, on Tuesday night at Arlington, Texas.

With the Twins in front, 4-3, Gerald Laird led off the ninth with a single off Joe Nathan (1-2). After Alfonso Soriano and David Dellucci struck out, Michael Young doubled into the left-field corner to tie the score, giving Nathan only his third blown save in 37 chances.

Hank Blalock was walked intentionally, Nathan threw a wild pitch, and Teixeira singled just inside the right-field foul line.

“I had never faced him before,” Teixeira said of Nathan. “We knew he was going to throw hard and around the plate.”

Nathan has failed to convert consecutive chances after coming through in 27 straight.

“Right now, it’s a bad stretch,” he said. “It’s been a tough week. But I felt I threw the ball great today except for the last pitch.”

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Oakland 6, Baltimore 2 -- Mark Mulder became the majors’ first 17-game winner, and the Athletics moved a season-best 19 games over .500 with the win at Oakland.

Mulder (17-4) was staked to a four-run lead in the first by the A’s offense.

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New York 5, Cleveland 4 -- Derek Jeter homered leading off the game for his 1,000th career run, then stole two bases in the ninth inning and scored on Hideki Matsui’s two-out single at Cleveland.

New York rallied from a 4-1 deficit, the Yankees’ 48th come-from-behind win, the most in the major leagues.

The Indians have lost nine straight, their longest skid since losing 10 straight in 1979.

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Boston 5, Toronto 4 -- Doug Mirabelli hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning, and Mike Timlin pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom half of the sixth at Toronto.

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Tampa Bay 6, Seattle 5 -- Tino Martinez hit a two-run homer in the first inning, and the Devil Rays hung on to win at Seattle.

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Chicago 9, Detroit 5 -- Juan Uribe homered, scored the go-ahead run and drove in three runs at Detroit as the White Sox ended a five-game losing streak.