Ontiveros Foils N.Y. With Near No-Hitter

American League

Steve Ontiveros threw a one-hitter, allowing only a sixth-inning single that barely eluded his try at a bare-handed stop as the Oakland Athletics beat the New York Yankees 3-0 Saturday at Oakland, Calif.

Ontiveros (5-1) had thrown a pair of two-hitters, one of which came against the Yankees last July 20. He struck out seven and walked two in his fourth straight win and second career shutout.

The Yankees, losers of a season-high five straight games, had only four baserunners. Luis Polonia ended the no-hit bid by singling with two outs in the sixth inning.

Polonia’s hit barely cleared Ontiveros’ leap and the ball rolled into center field. Ontiveros retired the next five batters and fanned the sixth, Randy Velarde, who reached on a passed ball by catcher Terry Steinbach.

The Yankees have been outscored 35-6 in dropping the first five games of their road trip.

Andy Pettitte (0-1) took the loss in his first majorleague start, allowing three runs on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Blue Jays 3, Indians 0

Toronto

Lance Parrish broke a scoreless tie with his first home run of the season, a three-run shot, and Al Leiter pitched 7 2/3 scoreless innings as Toronto defeated Cleveland.

After Bud Black had pitched six scoreless innings for Cleveland, Joe Carter and John Olerud hit consecutive singles off reliever Eric Plunk to start the seventh.

After Plunk got two outs, Parrish hit a 1-2 pitch into the second deck in left field for his 309th career home run as a catcher, third at the position behind Carlton Fisk (376) and Johnny Bench (327).

Red Sox 12, Angels 1

Anaheim, Calif.

Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield allowed five hits in seven innings for his first major-league victory in 20 months as Boston drubbed California.

Wakefield, signed by the Red Sox following his release by Pittsburgh, struck out four and walked two in his American League debut.

White Sox 1, Tigers 0

Detroit

Jason Bere pitched eight innings for his first win of the season and Ron Karkovice homered as Chicago beat Detroit.

Rangers 3, Twins 1

Minneapolis

Kenny Rogers extended his scoreless innings streak to 33, lowered his ERA to a major-league leading 1.42 and won his fifth straight game as Texas beat Minnesota.

Royals vs. Brewers, ppd.

Milwaukee

The scheduled game between Kansas City and Milwaukee was postponed because of rain.

Setback for Canseco

Boston slugger Jose Canseco tore a muscle in his rib cage during batting practice and is expected to be sidelined for another month, the Red Sox said Saturday.

Canseco was on the verge of being activated from the disabled list after recovering from a strained groin muscle. He was taking batting practice at the Kingdome in Seattle on Thursday when the latest injury occurred.

Canseco went on the disabled list May 15. He originally injured his groin muscle May 2 and aggravated it a couple of weeks later.

Clearing the bases

Former Washington State University right-hander Aaron Sele, scheduled to start for the Red Sox today against California, has returned to Boston with a sore shoulder… . Mike Bordick, who had missed 17 games with a sprain right ankle suffered May 17, returned to the Oakland lineup… . When Kirk Gibson homered Friday, he tied Dick McAuliffe for 10th place on Detroit’s career list with 192.