Rangers’ Hill Tops Tigers On One-Hit Gem, 11-0

American League

Ken Hill pitched a one-hitter, allowing only an infield single in the first inning, and Juan Gonzalez homered and drove in four runs Friday night as the Texas Rangers pounded the Detroit Tigers 11-0 at Tiger Stadium.

Hill (4-2) gave up an infield single to Bobby Higginson in the first before retiring 26 straight batters.

It was the second one-hitter of his career.

Royals 3, Athletics 1

Kansas City

Kevin Appier pitched seven strong innings and Kansas City scored the go-ahead run on an Oakland error as the Royals beat the Athletics.

Orioles 8, Brewers 2

Baltimore

Brady Anderson hit a pair of two-run homers and B.J. Surhoff also homered twice against his former team, powering Baltimore to a win over Milwaukee.

Angels 4, Twins 1

Anaheim, Calif.

Chuck Finley pitched eight strong innings and Jim Edmonds hit his 10th homer to lead California over Minnesota.

Yankees 2, White Sox 0

New York

Bernie Williams and Joe Girardi hit RBI singles in the eighth inning to give New York a win.

Mariano Rivera (3-0) worked the seventh and eighth innings after relieving Dwight Gooden. Rivera has not allowed a hit in 13 straight innings and is unscored upon in 16 consecutive innings.

Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 1 (susp.)

Boston

Boston led Toronto in a game suspended after six innings following two rain delays totaling 3 hours, 43 minutes.

An American League rule prohibits an inning from starting after 1 a.m. unless a team is visiting a city for the last time in the season. The game will be resumed before today’s regularly scheduled game beginning at 9:05 a.m. PDT.

Johnson’s bold move

Davey Johnson dared to go where few managers would last week. The Orioles’ skipper lifted Iron Cal Ripken for a pinch-runner Wednesday with a game still in doubt, the first time that’s happened since Ripken’s streak began in 1982. The Orioles lost in 15 innings while Ripken sat stone-faced in the Orioles’ dugout. After the game, Ripken would not comment. Said Johnson: “I was just trying to win the game.”

Carew returns

Angels’ hitting coach Rod Carew returned to work, trying to put behind him a seven-month ordeal that ended with the death of his 18-year-old daughter, Michelle, to leukemia.