Mark Redman threw a five-hitter to win for the first time in sevenstarts and John Buck hit an RBI double to lead the Kansas City Royalspast the host Minnesota Twins 2-0 Tuesday night.
Redman (8-8) allowed five hits, struck out three and walked none,keeping the Twins off balance with pitches as fast as 84 mph and asslow as 64.
Minnesota lost its second in a row and third in eight games,falling to 5oe games behind Detroit in the AL Central and a half-game behind the White Sox in the wild-card race.
In the fifth, Emil Brown and Ryan Shealy hit one-out singlesbefore Buck doubled off the center-field wall, driving in Brown.Shealy scored on a groundout by Andres Blanco.
Minnesota's Matt Garza (1-3) allowed five hits and two earned runsin 7* innings.
ATHLETICS 2, RED SOX 1: Frank Thomas scored from first on a fourth-inning double by Eric Chavez that broke a scoreless tie, and KirkSaarloos (7-6) matched Boston's Josh Beckett and earned his fourthstraight win for host Oakland.
The Red Sox sent their top three sluggers back to Boston formedical tests, with Manny Ramirez and Wily Mo Pena joining DavidOrtiz. Ramirez has a sore right knee, Pena has soreness in his leftwrist and Ortiz is scheduled for more heart tests that are expectedto take a few days.
RANGERS 9, ORIOLES 4: Kevin Millwood pitched his second completegame and Mark Teixeira hit a tiebreaking homer for host Texas.
The Orioles' Corey Patterson, who stole his 40th base, had toleave in the second with a sprained right shoulder. X-rays werenegative.
INDIANS 5, BLUE JAYS 2: C.C. Sabathia pitched his major league-leading fifth complete game and Travis Hafner hit his 40th homer ashost Cleveland beat Toronto.
MARINERS 6, ANGELS 4: Chris Snelling hit two of Seattle's foursolo homers off Jered Weaver and the host Mariners won their season-high sixth straight game.
YANKEES, TIGERS POSTPONED: Tuesday night's game at New York waspostponed by rain and rescheduled as part of a day-night doubleheadertoday.
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