AMERICAN LEAGUE

Blue Jays 17, Rays 11

The Toronto Blue Jays became the first team to hit eight homers in a game in three years, getting two apiece from Aaron Hill and J.P. Arencibia in a victory over slumping Tampa Bay Saturday.

Jose Bautista, Adam Lind, Edwin Encarnacion and Lyle Overbay also connected for the Blue Jays, whose 175 homers are the most in the majors. Bautista's shot was his major league-best 34th of the season.

It was the most homers in a single game for the Blue Jays since they hit a major league-record 10 against Baltimore on Sept. 14, 1987. Toronto scored in each of the first seven innings and set season highs in runs and hits (20).

The New York Yankees were the last team to hit at least eight homers in a single game, according to STATS LLC, going deep eight times in a 16-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on July 31, 2007, at Yankee Stadium.

The eight homers are the most allowed in a game by the Rays, whose losing streak reached a season-high four. Only the Yankees and San Diego have yet to lose four straight this season.

Called up from Triple-A Las Vegas on Wednesday, Arencibia homered on the first pitch of his first at-bat, a two-run shot to left in the second. He added another first-pitch homer in the sixth, a solo drive to right off Dale Thayer, and finished with four hits.

Arencibia became the first Blue Jays player to homer in his first career at-bat since Junior Felix on May 4, 1989, against the California Angels.

Hill went 3-for-5 and matched a career high with four RBIs in his first multihomer game.

Athletics 6, Rangers 2

Coco Crisp homered, hit two sacrifice flies and scored twice to back 10-game winner Gio Gonzalez, and Oakland beat first-place Texas.

Mark Ellis also had a sacrifice fly as Oakland quickly jumped on former A's ace Rich Harden. The A's snapped Texas' three-game winning streak and pulled within 8 ½ games of the Rangers in the AL West race.

Gonzalez (10-7) reached double digits in victories for the first time in parts of three major league seasons. The left-hander allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, struck out two and walked three.

Taylor Teagarden started the eighth with a drive off Jerry Blevins for the Rangers' first run. Crisp crashed into the center-field wall trying to make a leaping catch on Teagarden's shot and was briefly down, but stayed in the game.

The A's won for the ninth time in their last 10 day games and are a majors-best 26-11 in the afternoon. This was originally scheduled as a night game but was changed for TV.

"Even television's trying to give them a chance," Rangers manager Ron Washington quipped. "Son of a gun. They're out to get us."

Texas lost for only the eighth time in 22 games since the All-Star break. The Rangers couldn't get their offense going against Gonzalez after collecting 22 runs and 33 hits in their previous three games. David Murphy hit a ninth-inning RBI single.

Twins 7, Indians 2

Carl Pavano pitched seven innings to beat his former team, Joe Mauer had four hits and Minnesota defeated Cleveland.

Clinging to a 3-2 lead, Pavano (14-7) struck out Shelley Duncan to get out of a bases-loaded jam on his final pitch of the night. He allowed seven hits, struck out six and walked four on the one-year anniversary of being traded for minor leaguer Yohan Pino.

Pavano also improved to 9-1 with a 2.62 ERA in his last 12 starts as the Twins earned their 11th win in 14 games.

J.J. Hardy hit a tiebreaking RBI single off Fausto Carmona (11-9) in the top of the seventh. Mauer went 4 for 5 but Minnesota lost second baseman Alexi Casilla to a left ankle injury in the third.

Casilla scored from second on a single by Mauer. As he slid home ahead of the throw, Casilla appeared to jam his ankle into the left foot of catcher Chris Gimenez. Trevor Plouffe replaced Casilla in the field in the bottom half.

Casilla had a career-high four RBIs Friday night. He has started in place of Orlando Hudson, on the disabled list since July 24 with a right oblique strain. Hudson is eligible to be activated today.

White Sox 4, Orioles 2

Gavin Floyd allowed two runs in seven innings, and Chicago ended Buck Showalter's unbeaten run as manager of Baltimore.

The Orioles had won four straight since Showalter took over on Tuesday, matching their longest winning streak of the season. Baltimore bolted to an early 2-0 lead in a bid to make it five in a row, but the margin failed to stand up against the AL Central leaders.

Carlos Quentin hit his 22nd homer in the fourth inning, and Chicago added single runs in the seventh and eighth against reliever Jason Berken (3-3) before scoring an unearned run in the ninth.

Floyd (8-8) gave up six hits, walked two and struck out five to win his third straight start.

Angels 10, Tigers 1

Scott Kazmir allowed one unearned run in five innings in his return from the disabled list and Los Angeles routed slumping Detroit.

Kazmir (8-9), who had been sidelined since July 10 with shoulder fatigue, snapped a four-start losing streak. He gave up three hits and a walk, striking out three as the Angels clinched their first road series victory since June 16-18 against the Cubs.

The Tigers have lost four straight and seven of eight. They got only 4 1-3 innings out of Jeremy Bonderman (6-7), who allowed four runs on four hits and four walks.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Braves 3, Giants 0

Tim Hudson threw eight dominant innings, Troy Glaus hit a two-run single in Atlanta's three-run fourth and the Braves beat San Francisco.

Billy Wagner, who blew a save opportunity in Atlanta's 3-2, 11-inning loss to the Giants on Friday night, finished for his 27th save in 33 chances, striking out the side.

Hudson (13-5) allowed three hits, walked one and struck out six, improving to 4-0 with a sparkling 0.63 ERA in his last four starts.

He is 3-0 with a 2.84 ERA in his last five starts against the Giants, dating to 2006.

Marlins 5, Cardinals 4

Hanley Ramirez hit a game-winning double in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Florida a win over St. Louis.

Ramirez, Dan Uggla, and Donnie Murphy also homered for the Marlins, who snapped a five-game losing streak.

Clay Hensley (2-4) picked up the win in relief by pitching a scoreless 10th.

Chad Tracy hit a one-out single off Ryan Franklin (6-2) before Ramirez delivered the double to deep right-centerfield. Tracy's head-first slide into home easily beat the throw.

The Cardinals trailed 3-2 with two outs in the ninth before Yadier Molina and Aaron Miles each hit RBI singles off Leo Nunez to take a 4-3 advantage. It was Nunez's seventh blown save in 33 opportunities.

Brewers 5, Astros 2

Rickie Weeks hit an inside-the-park home run and George Kottaras added a solo shot to lead Milwaukee to a win over Houston.

Randy Wolf (8-9), who was forced to leave his last start on Sunday against the Astros in the seventh inning when he was hit on the wrist by a ball hit by Hunter Pence, got the victory. He gave up two runs on nine hits in 6 2-3 innings.

Brett Myers (8-7) took the loss for the Astros.

Reds 4, Cubs 3

Drew Stubbs hurt the Chicago Cubs again, hitting a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning and driving in a pair of runs to lead surging Cincinnati to a victory.

Stubbs doubled and scored in the third, started the eighth with his 14th homer and singled in a run in the ninth. The speedy center fielder snapped out of a 1-for-37 funk after being benched for five games. He is batting .318 with five homers against the Cubs this season.