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TORONTO — Jorge Posada homered and drove in four runs, Alex Rodriguez also homered and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-5 Thursday night for their seventh straight victory.
The AL East leaders won for the 14th time in 17 road games. Toronto lost its fourth in a row.
Posada’s homer was his 20th, giving New York a major league-leading seven players with at least that many — it’s the first time the Yankees have done that in team history.
Posada went 4 for 5 and hit his 340th career double, moving past Bob Meusel into ninth place on the team’s all-time list.
Rodriguez’s homer, a solo shot in the ninth, was his 24th this season and 50th overall against Toronto. He has 577 lifetime.
Red Sox 6, Rays 3
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Clay Buchholz pitched six effective innings, Jason Bay drove in two runs and Boston hurt Tampa Bay’s playoff hopes.
The Red Sox took 2 of 3 from the Rays — Boston’s first series win at Tropicana Field since Sept. 21-23, 2007 — to extend their AL wild-card advantage over Tampa Bay to six games. Texas trails Boston by three games.
Buchholz (4-3) allowed three runs and six hits. Bay, with 21 RBIs in his last 22 games, hit a two-run double that put the Red Sox ahead 2-0 in the first.
Evan Lorgoria had a run-scoring double for the Rays. The AL All-Star has 27 RBIs against the Red Sox this season. Since 1954, the most runs driven in against Boston during one season is 29, by Detroit Hall of Famer Al Kaline in 1959.
Boston took a 4-3 lead in the sixth when Mike Lowell hit a sacrifice fly. A run-scoring single by Victor Martinez and an RBI grounder from Kevin Youkilis made it 6-3 during the seventh.
Tigers 4, Indians 3
DETROIT — Placido Polanco hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give Detroit a victory over Cleveland.
The Tigers completed a three-game sweep and increased their lead in the AL Central to five games over the idle Twins.
Ryan Raburn led off the Detroit 10th with a double. Rafael Perez (4-3) then intentionally walked Miguel Cabrera and issued an unintentional free pass to Magglio Ordonez. Polanco followed with a fly ball to center and Raburn scored standing up.
Zach Miner (6-4) pitched 2 1-3 hitless innings to get the win for Detroit, which blew a 3-0 lead.
INTERLEAGUE
White Sox 5, Cubs 0
CHICAGO — Rookie Carlos Torres threw seven crisp innings, Dewayne Wise made a great throw to cut down a runner at the plate and the White Sox beat the Cubs in a makeup game between two city rivals whose seasons have gone awry.
Torres (1-0), recalled from the minors two days ago, earned his first major league win in his third career start. He allowed five hits, walked none and struck out six.