Brewers Tag Sele, Rout Boston 17-2

American League

Milwaukee knocked out Boston starter Aaron Sele with six runs in the first inning Thursday and used 17 hits and 10 walks to pound the Red Sox 17-2 in Milwaukee.

Sele (1-3) lasted just two-thirds of an inning, allowing six earned runs on five hits with two walks and one strikeout. Jose Valentin, Mike Metheny and Turner Ward each had three runs batted in for the Brewers.

Tigers 4, Yankees 2

New York

Cecil Fielder homered twice and Travis Fryman hit a two-run shot off Jimmy Key, helping Detroit halt a six-game losing streak with a victory over New York.

Blue Jays 5, Rangers 2

Arlington, Texas

John Olerud’s two-run double in the sixth broke up a scoreless game and snapped Ken Hill’s string of 19 shutout innings as Toronto halted Texas’ five-game winning streak.

Orioles 6, White Sox 4

Chicago

Cal Ripken, in a 0-for-16 slump, blooped a bases-loaded single to key a five-run first inning, and Baltimore held on to beat Chicago.

Royals 8, Angels 2

Anaheim, Calif.

Rookie Sal Fasano hit his first major league homer, a three-run shot in the fifth, lifting Kansas City over California.

Injury front

Texas outfielder Juan Gonzalez, coming off an injury-plagued 1995, will miss at least two weeks with a partial tear of the left quadriceps muscle.

David Cone will have surgery today in New York to repair an aneurysm in his right shoulder, but the team physician of the New York Yankees expects him to pitch again, although probably not this season.

Bobby Thigpen, who made a major league-record 57 saves for the Chicago White Sox in 1990 and was attempting a comeback with their Triple-A affiliate, underwent spinal surgery that is expected to end his career.

Clearing the bases

Detroit’s 7.27 ERA after Wednesday was more than double that of three N.L. teams. … Turner Ward’s pinch homer was the first for the Brewers since Matt Mieske hit one against New York last Sept. 27.