Joyner Helps Royals Rally Over Orioles

American League

Wally Joyner’s run-scoring double capped a two-run rally in the ninth inning as the Kansas City Royals, who earlier blew a six-run lead, beat the Baltimore Orioles 9-8 Thursday at Baltimore.

Gary Gaetti led off the ninth with his 18th homer, tying the game at 8-8 and handing Doug Jones (0-3) his first blown save since May 16.

Tom Goodwin had a one-out single and Joyner had a two-out double off the scoreboard in right field. Goodwin’s head-first slide beat the relay throw to the plate.

Kansas City snapped Baltimore’s fourgame winning streak and won for just the fourth time in 16 games.

Brewers 8, White Sox 7, (10)

Milwaukee

Darryl Hamilton’s run-scoring double with two outs in the bottom of the 10th lifted Milwaukee over Chicago.

The temperature at the start of the game was 104 degrees, breaking the record of 98 degrees set June 21, 1988. The temperature neared the city’s alltime high of 105 on July 24, 1934.

Angels 8, Tigers 5, (10)

Detroit

Tim Salmon’s three-run homer in the top of the 10th sent California past Detroit and kept the Angels in a firstplace tie atop the A.L. West.

The Angels came back from a 5-1 deficit with two runs in the sixth, one in the seventh and one in the eighth. Salmon had four RBIs and Jim Edmonds had three, including a two-run homer off the light tower above the right-field roof.

Rangers 9, Red Sox 8

Boston

Texas built an eight-run lead on four homers off Roger Clemens, two by Ivan Rodriguez, then held off Boston in a matchup of division leaders.

Boston cut the lead to 8-7 with six runs in the fifth and one in the sixth, but Rodriguez singled and scored on Mike Pagliarulo’s double in the seventh to make it 9-7.

Yankees 7, Twins 2

New York

Bernie Williams drove in three runs and Jack McDowell won for the sixth time in his last seven decisions as New York defeated Minnesota. Williams had a two-run homer in the eighth.

Oakland at Cleveland, ppd.

Cleveland

The game was postponed when a thunderstorm hit near Jacobs Field with the score tied at 2-2 in the third.