Phillips’ Error Helps Royals Top Angels In 13

Dean Palmer tripled to open the 13th inning and scored the go-ahead run on Tony Phillips’ error Saturday, giving the Kansas City Royals a 3-1 victory over the Anaheim Angels.

Roderick Myers walked following Palmer’s triple. On his steal of second, Phillips tried to make a tag before he had control of the ball, allowing it to deflect off his glove into center field. Palmer scored and Myers took third on the play. Jeff King’s sacrifice fly made it 3-1.

Rich DeLucia (6-4), the last of seven Angels pitchers, took the loss.

The Angels put runners on first and third with none out in the 12th off Gregg Olson (3-2), who then struck out the side.

Rookie Brian Bevil worked a perfect 13th for his first major league save.

Anaheim stranded a season-high 18 runners.

Kansas City left 12 on base.

Orioles 6, Yankees 1 Baltimore

Mike Mussina pitched a three-hitter for his first win in five weeks as Baltimore ended its run of lopsided losses to New York.

Mussina (14-7) took a one-hitter into the ninth and had retired 20 consecutive batters before the Yankees got two hits around an error to avert a shutout. He struck out eight and walked one.

Rafael Palmeiro, B.J Surhoff and Jerome Walton homered for the Orioles.

White Sox 7, Indians 6 Chicago

Albert Belle, held hitless last weekend against his former team, drove in two runs. Belle, 0 for 11 in the Indians’ three-game sweep at Jacobs Field, hit a sacrifice fly in the first inning, a double in the third and an RBI single in the sixth.

Orel Hershiser (13-6) lost for the first time in 12 starts since July 2.

Athletics 4, Tigers 2 Oakland, Calif.

Dave Telgheder (3-5) won a start for the first time since May 21, and Ben Grieve hit his first major-league homer as Oakland topped Detroit.

Telgheder, who spent two months on the disabled list with a strained elbow, allowed one run and five hits in five innings. T.J. Mathews pitched the ninth for his second save.

Willie Blair (16-7) gave up four runs and seven hits in seven-plus innings.

Rangers 9, Twins 3 Arlington, Texas

Juan Gonzalez and rookie Fernando Tatis each homered twice to lead Texas to a rout of Minnesota.

Gonzalez’s two-run shot in the first was the 250th of his career. He added a solo homer, his 37th this season, in the sixth and tripled in the fifth.

Gonzalez became the 123rd player in major league history to reach 250 homers, connecting after Tom Goodwin had reached on a throwing error.

Darren Oliver (12-11) survived a two-run first to win for the sixth time in his last seven decisions.

Red Sox 2, Brewers 1 Milwaukee

Tim Wakefield pitched 7-1/3 strong innings and Bill Haselman homered as Boston edged slumping Milwaukee.

The Brewers have lost four straight and six of seven.

Wakefield (11-15) defeated the Brewers for the third time this season. He allowed just four hits, none after Dave Nilsson’s single in the fourth.

Tom Gordon pitched the ninth for his seventh save in seven chances.

Clearing the bases

Anaheim Stadium will become the next ballpark to be renamed for a corporation. The stadium, also known as “The Big A,” will be renamed Edison International Field of Anaheim under a $50 million sponsorship deal to be formally announced Monday… . Oakland’s Scott Brosius, batting .201 after hitting .304 last year, could become just the fourth player in major league history and first in 35 years to experience a 100-point fall in consecutive seasons. The others are Norm Cash (.361 in ‘61, .243 in ‘62), Max Carey (.343 in ‘25, .231 in ‘26) and Doc Farrell (.316 in ‘27, .215 in ‘28)… . The White Sox will retire Carlton Fisk’s No. 72 in pregame ceremonies today. Fisk played in Chicago from 1981-1993.