NEW YORK: Texas’ Craig Gentry, starting for the first time in two weeks, hit a two-out, two-run single in the seventh inning that lifted the Rangers to a 10-6 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday.
The Rangers avoided a four-game sweep in a matchup of AL division leaders and won for the first time at Yankee Stadium in nine attempts.
The Yankees led 5-4 before the Rangers came back with three runs in the seventh. David Murphy hit a tying RBI double off Boone Logan (4-1) and, after an intentional walk that loaded the bases, Gentry lined a tiebreaking single up the middle.
Texas reliever Tanner Scheppers (1-0) won his first big league decision.
Red Sox 6 Orioles 3: In Baltimore, Clay Buchholz shook off a rocky start to earn the win as Boston downed Baltimore.
After giving up six hits over the first two innings, Buchholz (11-3) kept the Orioles at bay, and the Red Sox rebounded from a 3-1 deficit. He allowed three runs in eight innings and struck out seven.
Dustin Pedroia singled in the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning as the Red Sox added three runs in that frame against Luis Ayala (4-4).
White Sox 7 Blue Jays 2: In Toronto, Alex Rios hit a three-run homer against his former team to help Chicago beat Toronto.
Rios’ shot was added to by four solo homers as the White Sox matched a season high by going deep five times. The power surge helped the White Sox win their first series in Toronto since 2006.
Chicago starter Francisco Liriano (4-10) allowed three hits with six strikeouts in 6 1-3 innings to win for the first time with his new team since arriving from Minnesota.
Toronto’s Aaron Laffey (3-4) allowed three runs in six innings.
Male fan dies
at Blue Jays game
Meantime, a male fan died in a hospital after going into cardiac arrest at Thursday’s game between the Blue Jays and Chicago White Sox.
Play was halted for four minutes in the seventh inning while the fan received CPR and was carted off on a stretcher.
Ambulance sirens could be heard outside the stadium as the fan was carted off, still receiving CPR.
Following the game, Toronto Police Services confirmed the fan had died in a hospital after collapsing. The name of the fan was not released.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the person who was taken out of here tonight,” Blue Jays manager John Farrell said.
White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis was the first player to notice the commotion in the stands, and alerted umpire Mark Wegner to what was going on.
“I saw some medics jump out around the dugout and run over,” Youkilis said. “Then I saw a doctor or whoever was going, just pushing on the chest over and over and over. I thought maybe they were reviving him and then the next thing you know, they kept going and going. I was like ‘God, man. We’ve got to stop this thing.’“
Wegner approached second base ump and crew chief Mike Winters after Moises Sierra hit a foul ball down the right-field line, and the game was stopped to allow a cart to come onto the field and carry the fan off through the left field gate.
Blue Jays players left their dugout to watch as paramedics pumped the man’s chest repeatedly.
White Sox pitcher Jesse Crain, who was on the mound at the time, was left shaken by the episode.
“I said a little prayer for him after everything started going again,” Crain said. “You don’t ever want to see that.”
This was the second time this season a fan received CPR at a Blue Jays game; it also happened June 29.