OAKLAND, California — Coco Crisp and Stephen Vogt homered, A.J. Griffin struck out seven in seven innings, and the Oakland Athletics completed a three-game sweep of Tampa Bay with a 5-1 victory Sunday. The A's (78-58), who won the first two games of the series by one run, lead the American League wild-card race. The Rays (75-60) are the second wild-card team. Oakland, one game behind AL West-leading Texas, will host the Rangers in a three-game series starting Monday. After Crisp led off the bottom of the first with a home run, James Loney tied it with a homer in the second. The A's added a run in the seventh, two in the eighth. Indians 4, Tigers 0: Mike Aviles blasted a ninth-inning grand slam as the Cleveland Indians ended a five-game losing streak with a victory over the Detroit Tigers. Cleveland, which trails Detroit by 7 1/2 games in the American League Central, had lost seven straight to the Tigers. Alex Avila had three hits for Detroit. Kansas City 5, Toronto 0: James Shields (10-8) pitched seven innings of three-hit ball to win his fourth straight decision, Eric Hosmer drove in two runs, and the visiting Royals got within 5½ games of a wild-card spot. Kansas City has won six of eight. Former Blue Jay Emilio Bonifacio had two hits, scored twice and stole two bases. He's 11-for-11 in steals since joining Kansas City on Aug. 14. Baltimore 7, NY Yankees 3: J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones hit three-run homers in the visiting Orioles' seven-run seventh inning. Baltimore trailed, 3-0, after six innings vs. Andy Pettitte. Robinson Cano and Derek Jeter each struck out three times for the Yankees. Houston 2, Seattle 0: Rookie Brett Oberholtzer (4-1) pitched a four-hitter, and Jason Castro hit a tie-breaking RBI double in the eighth off ex-Tiger Charlie Furbush (2-5) for the host Astros. Boston 7, Chicago White Sox 6: David Ortiz had two hits and three RBIs as the host Red Sox completed a three-game sweep. Ortiz is 5-for-9 with six RBIs since going hitless in his previous 23 at-bats. He needs two hits to become the 39th player with 2,000 hits, 400 homers and 1,400 RBIs. Minnesota 4, Texas 2: Kevin Correia (9-10) pitched seven innings, and Glen Perkins got his 32nd save for the visiting Twins. Inter-League LA Angels 5, Milwaukee 3: J.B. Shuck hit a three-run double in the seventh inning as the visiting Angels finished a three-game sweep and beat the Brewers for the eighth time in a row. — Agencies
