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Belle Rings Up 41st In Indians’ 10-4 Win

Associated Press

American League

Albert Belle hit his 41st homer, Jim Thome hit his 28th and Manny Ramirez had his third grand slam of the season as the Cleveland Indians beat the Texas Rangers 10-4 on Tuesday night at Cleveland.

In a game delayed more than 1 hour by rain, Texas saw its errorless streak end at 15 games, an A.L. record. The Rangers failed to tie the major league record of 16, set by the 1992 St. Louis Cardinals.

Yankees 17, Angels 6< New York

New York spotted California five runs in the first inning before scoring 17 straight runs of its own in a rout.

Darryl Strawberry singled in the go-ahead run when New York scored six unearned runs in the fourth inning to take the lead for good. The Yankees, who have 51 hits in their last three games, then blew it open by scoring four more runs in the sixth and five in the seventh.

Tigers 16, White Sox 11 Detroit

Melvin Nieves homered from both sides of the plate for the second time this season as Detroit snapped an eight-game losing streak.

Nieves drove in a career-high five runs for Detroit, which also got home runs from Andujar Cedeno and Bobby Higginson.

Jays 6, Royals 5, (14) Kansas City, Mo.

Alex Gonzalez homered on the first pitch of the 14th inning, and Toronto rallied from a three-run deficit.

Gonzalez hit his ninth homer of the year off Rick Huisman (0-1), the eighth Royals pitcher and last available reliever. Huisman, who got his first major league decision, also allowed a 13th-inning homer to Carlos Delgado. Craig Paquette’s RBI single re-tied the game in the bottom half.

Red Sox 4, Athletics 3 Boston

Mo Vaughn hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning as Boston rallied to beat Oakland and win for the 15th time in 20 games.

Boston moved two games below .500 for the first time since losing the first two games of the season en route to a franchise-worst 2-12 start.

Twins 12, Brewers 7 Minneapolis

Marty Cordova hit two home runs in a game for the first time and matched a career high with four RBIs to lead Minnesota.

Cordova hit a solo homer in a six-run second inning and a two-run shot in the Twins’ three-run fourth. Milwaukee lost at the Metrodome for the first time in six games this season.

Clearing the bases

Minnesota’s Paul Molitor’s fourth-inning triple, the second of his three hits, was his 2,961st hit, tying him with Sam Crawfordfor 22nd on the career list. … New York’s Paul O’Neill had batted third in 170 consecutive games before being moved to the No. 7 spot by manager Joe Torre, who had rested the right fielder the past two games. … California center fielder Jim Edmonds left in the bottom of the fifth inning with blurred vision in his left eye. … With a double in the first, Texas’ Ivan Rodriguez became the sixth catcher in major league history with 40 doubles in a season, joining Mickey Cochran, Johnny Bench, Ted Simmons, Ted Kennedy and Brian Harper. … The Rangers are in a stretch of 21 consecutive games against A.L. Central teams. … Joe Carter, the only Toronto player to have played every game this season, left the game in the seventh after fouling a pitch off his hand.