Indians Fire Back At Yanks, Win 10-3

American League

Manny Ramirez, Carlos Baerga and Jim Thome homered Saturday to help Charles Nagy and the Cleveland Indians to a 10-3 victory over the New York Yankees.

Ramirez’s homer, a two-run shot off rookie Brian Boehringer, broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth inning and helped Nagy to his American League-leading 11th victory.

Albert Belle, the focus of unruly fans who delayed Friday night’s game twice by throwing objects toward the Indians’ left fielder, doubled twice in five at-bats and scored a run.

Rangers 13, Red Sox 3

Boston

Warren Newson homered in his first two at-bats, and Mickey Tettleton hit a three-run homer as Texas pounded Boston.

Newson and Rusty Greer each went 4 for 5 to highlight an 18-hit attack as the Rangers halted Boston’s four-game win streak.

Kevin Gross (7-4), making his third start since being activated from the disabled list, allowed three runs and nine hits in his first complete game of the season.

Tigers 6, Twins 4

Minneapolis

Cecil Fielder’s routine fly ball hit the Metrodome ceiling and fell for a two-out, two-run double in the seventh inning that sent Detroit past Minnesota.

Fielder hit an apparent inning-ending fly ball to left field that Marty Cordova moved under to make the catch. But the ball struck the teflon ceiling and ricocheted behind a bewildered Cordova, and was retrieved by center fielder Rich Becker as Chad Curtis and Travis Fryman scored.

The freak play happened just after the Tigers had tied the score on Curtis’ run-scoring single off Frank Rodriguez (5-7).

Brewers 12, Athletics 9

Milwaukee

Fernando Vina homered and Jose Valentin stole home as Milwaukee beat Oakland for its season-high fifth straight home victory.

Dave Nilsson, John Jaha and Greg Vaughn also homered in support of Brian Givens (1-1). Givens allowed three runs in 5-1/3 innings, and picked up his first victory since Aug. 21, 1995 - eight starts and six losses ago.

Oakland second baseman Brent Gates left the game after fouling a fastball off his left shin. He was taken to a hospital for precautionary X-rays.

Royals 7, Orioles 6 (16)

Kansas City, Mo.

Pinch-hitter Mike Macfarlane hit a sacrifice fly in the 16th inning, giving Kansas City a win over Baltimore in the longest game in the majors this season (4 hours, 41 minutes).

David Howard hit a leadoff triple in the 16th against Rich Krivda (2-2). After Jose Offerman grounded out, Joe Randa was intentionally walked.

Macfarlane batted for Chris Stynes and flied to left field, easily scoring Howard.

Angels 7, Blue Jays 5

Anaheim, Calif.

J.T. Snow hit a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning, and California rallied for its seventh straight comeback victory.

In the eighth, Chili Davis was tagged out at the plate by Charlie O’Brien on a grounder by Don Slaught. O’Brien and Davis exchanged words and the benches emptied, but there no punches.

Saturday deals

Greg Swindell, released earlier this month by Houston, signed with Cleveland to begin his second stint with the Indians. It is unclear how the Indians will use him or if his acquisition may lead to the club trading another pitcher. After being picked No. 2 overall in 1986 by the Indians, Swindell spent six seasons in Cleveland.

The California Angels acquired catcher Pat Borders from St. Louis in exchange for minor league pitcher Ben VanRyn.

Borders, 33, batted .319 with four RBIs in 26 games with the Cardinals. He was designated for assignment by St. Louis on Thursday.

Borders, 33, joins his fifth club in nine major-league seasons. Left-hander VanRyn was 3-3 with a 3.89 ERA in 18 games with Triple-A Vancouver. VanRyn will report to Triple-A Louisville.