Gooden, Strawberry Team Up In Sweep
American League
Darryl Strawberry got his first two hits of the season, a pair of two-run homers, and Dwight Gooden won his sixth straight decision as the New York Yankees completed a doubleheader sweep of the Baltimore Orioles with a 7-5 victory Saturday night in Baltimore.
In the first game, Joe Girardi singled home the tying run in the ninth inning and scored on Mariano Duncan’s double to give New York a 3-2 comeback win.
In the nightcap, Strawberry and Gooden, who played together on the New York Mets in the 1980s, teamed to give the Yankees their eighth win in nine games.
Baltimore’s Brady Anderson hit his major league-high 31st homer in the first game.
White Sox 3, Royals 1
Kansas City, Mo.
Alex Fernandez held Kansas City to four hits and Chris Snopek, replacing injured Frank Thomas, had a two-run triple, leading Chicago past the Royals.
Fernandez (9-5), rebounding from his worst start of the year, walked none and struck out five in raising his lifetime record in Kauffman Stadium to 6-0 with a 1.80 ERA.
The right-hander, who gave up six runs in 6-1/3 innings at Cleveland in his previous start, retired 10 straight batters in the middle innings. He set down 21 of the last 23 batters in his second complete game.
Snopek, a third baseman called up from Triple-A Nashville on Thursday when two-time MVP Thomas went on the disabled list, capped a three-run sixth inning with a triple into right field that eluded Johnny Damon by a couple of inches.
Indians 19, Twins 11
Minneapolis
Albert Belle hit his 30th home run and also helped Cleveland tie an A.L. record with 12 doubles.
The Indians matched the league mark for doubles, set by Boston against Detroit on July 29, 1990.
Cleveland and Minnesota combined to set an A.L. record with 18 doubles, surpassing the 16 by the Indians and New York Yankees on July 21, 1921. The major-league mark for doubles is 23 by the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs on July 12, 1931. In that game, the Cardinals set the big-league record with 13 doubles.
Red Sox 10, Tigers 5
Detroit
Tim Naehring homered and scored five runs as Boston took its fourth straight win.
Mike Stanley hit a three-run homer and Jose Malave a pair of two-run singles for Boston, which has won the first three games of the four-game series in Detroit and is 8-1 against the Tigers this season.
The Red Sox matched their longest winning streak of the season.
Blue Jays 15, Brewers 7
Milwaukee
Robert Perez, who had just one home run in his first 163 major league at-bats, hit two of Toronto’s five homers in the Blue Jays’ romp.
Ed Sprague had a three-run homer, a two-run single and also a double for Toronto.
Both of Perez’s shots came off Scott Karl (8-5), who surrendered eight runs and nine hits in three-plus innings.
Rangers 8, Athletics 1
Oakland, Calif.
Roger Pavlik pitched three-hit ball for eight innings and the Texas Rangers hit four home runs.
Juan Gonzalez hit his 23rd homer for Texas, and Mickey Tettleton, Kevin Elster and Mark McLemore also connected. Mark McGwire hit his 30th homer for Oakland.
Clearing the bases
In 91 games, Kansas City has used 87 different batting orders. … Cecil Fielder’s homer was his 239th for the Tigers, tying him with Rudy York for sixth place on the club’s career list. Lou Whitaker is fifth with 244. … Cleveland’s Belle has 224 career home runs in nearly eight seasons, two behind Earl Averill’s Cleveland record. Averill played with the Indians from 1929-39. … Milwaukee pitcher Cal Eldred returns to the major leagues today, more than a year since he underwent Tommy John-style tendon replacement surgery on his right elbow. Eldred led the A.L. with 258 innings pitched in 1993. … Juan Samuel was hit by a pitch in the eighth inning, giving the Blue Jays a club record 59 hit batsmen this season.