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Tribe take series from cold Tigers

August 26, 2007

Jim Leyland doesn’t want the Detroit Tigers to stare at the standings.

That’s probably a good idea because the slumping Tigers are slipping behind Cleveland in the AL Central and losing ground in the wild card race.

Pinch-hitter Kenny Lofton’s infield single off Joel Zumaya broke a scoreless tie with two outs in the 10th inning, and the Indians went on to beat the Tigers, 3-1, yesterday in Detroit.

Cleveland won the three-game series and leads the Tigers in the division by 2 games, the biggest cushion since it was ahead by three games on July 3.

Down 3-0 in the 10th, the Tigers still had a chance to win a series for the first time since mid-July. Marcus Thames hit an RBI double with two outs off Joe Borowski, putting a pair of runners in scoring position, but Ivan Rodriguez popped up to end the game.

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Tigers DH Gary Sheffield (shoulder) missed his second straight game and doesn’t plan on facing one of his former teams, the Yankees, this weekend.

Mariners 9, Rangers 4 - Ichiro Suzuki had a three-run double in between homers by Jose Guillen and Jose Vidro during a seven-run inning that pushed Seattle to a win over the Rangers, who were back home after scoring a record 30 runs in the opener of a doubleheader sweep at Baltimore.

Jeff Weaver (6-10) won his fourth straight start in August.

Seattle is 18-7 since a seven-game losing streak last month and has a two-game lead in the wild-card standings ahead of the New York Yankees, who were off.

Blue Jays 5, Angels 4 - Toronto rookie Jesse Litsch scattered six hits and pitched into the seventh inning to lift Toronto over Los Angeles in Anaheim.

Matt Stairs doubled home a pair of runs and scored another as the Blue Jays came from behind with a three-run fifth inning against Ervin Santana.

The loss trimmed the Angels’ AL West lead to one game over Seattle.

Athletics 12, Devil Rays 2 - Mike Piazza hit his 424th homer, had four hits and drove in a season-high five runs, powering Oakland over Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Piazza hit a two-run shot - his fifth of the year - off Brian Stokes to extend the A’s lead to 10-1 in the sixth.

Twins 5, Orioles 2 - Boof Bonser pitched seven innings of three-hit ball to earn his first win since June 10, and Minnesota took advantage of shoddy fielding by host Baltimore.

One night after permitting a major league-record 39 runs in a doubleheader loss to Texas - including an AL-record 30 in the first game - the Orioles found a different way to lose.

Elsewhere in the AL - Texas Rangers reliever Akinori Otsuka likely won’t pitch again this season even after three doctors who examined his sore right elbow found no structural damage.

General manager Jon Daniels said Otsuka would be shut down for up to three weeks before the right-hander tries to throw again.

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