Raines’ Big Night Leads Yanks To Win
American League
Tim Raines hit a pair of three-run homers on his 37th birthday as the New York Yankees won for the sixth time on their seven-game road trip, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 10-0 Monday night.
The American League East leaders headed home for a three-game series against Baltimore with a three-game lead over the Orioles.
Jimmy Key (12-10) started off with 5-2/3 perfect innings and wound up allowing two hits in eight innings.
Tomas Perez flared a single to right just beyond the reach of second baseman Mariano Duncan in the sixth for Toronto’s first hit.
Indians 4, White Sox 3
Chicago
Kevin Seitzer hit a go-ahead single and Jack McDowell survived a shaky start as Cleveland moved to the verge of its second straight American League Central title by beating Chicago.
The Indians can clinch the crown by beating the White Sox today.
Chicago had a 3-0 lead after Frank Thomas and Harold Baines hit back-to-back homers in the third.
McDowell (12-9) pitched his fifth complete game of the season.
Royals 6, Twins 5
Kansas City, Mo.
Paul Molitor became the first major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits with a triple, but Kansas City overcame his big night to beat Minnesota.
In the second, Minnesota’s Chuck Knoblauch doubled for the 1,000th hit of his career.
The Twins led 3-0 when Pat Meares hit his eighth homer in the second.
Jose Rosado (7-5) went 6-2/3 innings, giving up three runs on seven hits. Jaime Bluma pitched the ninth for his third save.
The Royals scored five times in the sixth off Brad Radke.
Brewers vs. Orioles, ppd.
Baltimore
Baltimore’s game against Milwaukee was postponed by rain. The Orioles-Brewers matchup, which was to be the makeup of a game postponed by rain Aug. 12, was rescheduled for Sept. 23 at 1:05 p.m. EDT.
Bid made for Murray ball
The founder of the Psychic Friends Network has offered what would be the most ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia for Eddie Murray’s 500th home run ball.
Michael Lasky took out an ad in The (Baltimore) Sun on Sunday, offering to pay $500,000 for the ball Murray hit into the right field bleachers at Camden Yards on Sept. 6.
Lasky says he wants to keep the ball in Baltimore and out of the hands of a collector who might lock it up, out of public view.
Dan Jones, the 30-year-old man from suburban Towson who caught Murray’s home run ball, refused to give it to Murray after the game and had said he was weighing his options.