Blue Jays Trip Up Yankees

Bruised by a line drive again, Jaret Wright was ineffective and the Toronto Blue Jays ended New York’s five-game winning streak with a 7-4 victory Saturday at New York.

Hideki Matsui and Robinson Cano made costly errors for the Yankees, who lost for the second time in 13 games. Chasing their eighth consecutive division title, they fell into a tie for the American League East lead with Boston, which won.

Shea Hillenbrand and Eric Hinske each drove in two runs for Toronto, which won for the fifth time in 13 games. Wright (5-4) was chased with none out in the second inning, his shortest start since August 2004 with Atlanta.

Boston 4, Baltimore 3 -- Edgar Renteria drove in two runs with a broken-bat single in the ninth inning on the road.

After Trot Nixon and Tony Graffanino hit one-out singles off B.J. Ryan (1-4), Johnny Damon drew a four-pitch walk to load the bases for Renteria, who blooped a single to left that broke a 2-2 tie.

The Orioles, who have lost seven in a row, stranded 11 runners, twice leaving the bases loaded and twice failing to bring home runners from second and third.

Chicago 8, Minnesota 1 -- Freddy Garcia gave up four hits in eight innings at Chicago, and Jermaine Dye hit a three-run homer for the second consecutive night.

The White Sox have won back-to-back games for the first time since Sept. 6-7, the end of a seven-game winning streak. After leading by 15 games on Aug. 1, they entered Saturday night’s game with a 1 1/2 -game lead over second-place Cleveland in the AL Central and held on to it.

Garcia (13-8) won for the second time in 10 starts, striking out two and walking two.

Cleveland 11, Kansas City 4 -- Jhonny Peralta, Ronnie Belliard, Grady Sizemore and Coco Crisp homered on the road to lead the Indians to their 17th win in 19 games.

Ben Broussard had a career-high three doubles and four RBIs for Cleveland, which has won four in a row and 10 of 11.

Detroit 7, Seattle 1 -- Jason Grilli gave up one run and two hits in seven innings in his first Detroit start, and the Tigers hit four home runs to end an eight-game losing streak.

The Tigers improved to 5-19 in September; the Mariners fell to 3-7 on their season-high 11-game trip.

Grilli (1-0) won for the first time since Sept. 11, 2004. He struck out four and walked four.

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Wild-card standings

*--* TEAM W L PCT. GB Cleveland 92 63 594 -- Boston/New York 90 64 584 1 1/2 Oakland 85 69 552 6 1/2

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