ROUNDUP

Baltimore 12, at Detroit 8: Miguel Tejada hit a tiebreaking single to spark a four-run 10th inning and send the Tigers to their 24th loss in their last 37 games since leading the division by 10 games Aug. 7. Brian Roberts led off the 10th with a single, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Tejada’s hit. The Orioles added three more runs against Jason Grilli (2-3). Chris Ray (2-3) pitched 2 1/3 innings and earned the win after blowing his fifth save in 36 opportunities. Sean Casey tied it at 8-8 in the eighth with a two-out, two-run homer on the second pitch from Ray. Detroit starter Wilfredo Ledezma gave up five runs and seven hits in 3 2/3 innings, his shortest of five starts this season.

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at Oakland 5, Chicago 4: Frank Thomas dealt another big blow to his former team’s dwindling playoff hopes, hitting a three-run homer for the Athletics. Thomas homered twice and drove in seven runs in the final two games of Oakland’s three-game sweep of the defending World Series champions.

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Boston 6-5, at New York 3-4: The Red Sox beat the Yankees twice in one day for the first time since July 31, 1976, rallying on Mark Loretta’s ninth-inning sacrifice fly to sweep a doubleheader. In the opener of the teams’ second straight day-night doubleheader, David Ortiz’s league-leading 49th homer and Kevin Youkilis’ three-run double in the seventh boosted Boston. New York has a magic number of four and hopes to clinch the division title during a seven-game trip to Toronto and Tampa Bay that starts today. Derek Jeter sat out the opener and went 0 for 4 in the second game, ending his hitting streak at 25 games, the longest for the Yankees since Joe Gordon’s 29-game string in 1942.

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at Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 3: Aaron Hill hit a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning to lead the Blue Jays. Bengie Molina homered and had three hits for Toronto, which has won four games in a row.

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Seattle 10, at Kansas City 5: Chris Snelling and Kenji Johjima homered to help the Mariners win for the 16th time in their last 21 games against the Royals. Gil Meche (11-8) gave up nine hits and five runs in six innings to win his second straight start after going nine games without a win.