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Curtis Granderson led off the game with a home run and connected again in the second inning, and Justin Verlander equaled a career high by striking out 13 as the Detroit Tigers beat the Texas Rangers 13-5 Wednesday night. The Tigers scored in each of the first seven innings and matched a season high with [...]

Light-hitting Alexi Casilla had two RBIs, Minnesota's bullpen pitched four scoreless innings and the Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 on Wednesday night to sweep the three-game series. Casilla, who entered the game hitting .161, broke a 2-2 tie with a run-scoring single in the sixth and the Twins beat the White Sox for [...]

Adam Kennedy homered on the first pitch of the game Wednesday night and the Oakland Athletics again outslugged Boston, winning 8-6 a day after beating the Red Sox with a 21-hit attack. Brett Anderson (6-8) was staked to a 5-0 lead before even taking the mound and won at Fenway Park for the second time [...]

Joba Chamberlain pitched eight scoreless innings and Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano homered and drove in two runs apiece to lead the New York Yankees to a 6-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night. With Yankees owner George Steinbrenner watching from his private suite at Tropicana Field, the AL East leaders won [...]

Remaining in Toronto, perhaps through 2010. Watching Cliff Lee become the ace traded to Philadelphia. Then, allowing a season-high 11 hits in record-setting Seattle heat. Roy Halladay sure wasn't expecting any of this when he woke up Wednesday. "I'm going to lock myself in a room and hide," the Blue Jays' trade-weary ace deadpanned.

The San Francisco Giants acquired infielder Freddy Sanchez from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday, and made it a convenient switch for the three-time All-Star. The teams announced the trade right after the Giants beat Pittsburgh 1-0 in 10 innings. Sanchez merely had to change clubhouses to join his new team, which is in the thick [...]

Twins left-hander Francisco Liriano was scratched from Wednesday's start with soreness and swelling in his left forearm. Brian Duensing will make his first major league start for Minnesota, which will try to complete a three-game sweep of the White Sox. Manager Ron Gardenhire said Liriano informed the team of his condition Tuesday, and no structural [...]

Houston Astros ace Roy Oswalt has received an injection to treat an irritated disk in his lower back and could have his next start pushed back. Oswalt left Tuesday night's game against the Chicago Cubs in the second inning with lower back discomfort. He returned to Houston on Wednesday, where he was examined and given [...]

Ken Griffey Jr. doubled twice and drove in the decisive runs in the seventh inning, and the Seattle Mariners tagged Roy Halladay with a season-high 11 hits while beating the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday. The Mariners won for the second consecutive time after a four-game losing streak. They got a solo home run [...]

No longer burdened by batting leadoff, Alfonso Soriano is doing what he was supposed to have been doing all along. Rookie right-hander Randy Wells, meanwhile, has exceeded the Chicago Cubs' wildest expectations. "I wonder where we'd be without him," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said Wednesday after Wells pitched eight shutout innings in a 12-0 victory [...]