AL ROUNDUP

ATHLETICS 12, TIGERS 4: In Detroit, the Oakland Athletics avoided a threegame sweep with a resounding victory over Detroit on Thursday.

Seth Smith homered, doubled and drove in four runs as the Athletics beat the Tigers in a matchup of playoff contenders.

INDIANS 4, TWINS 3 (10): In Cleveland, Casey Kotchman singled with the basesloaded in the 10th inning, giving Cleveland a win over Minnesota.

ROYALS 4, WHITE SOX 3: In Kansas City, Mo., Alex Rios was thrown out at the plate and Alexei Ramirez was picked off third base as Central-leading Chicago again failed to come up with a clutch hit in a loss to Kansas City.

The Royals beat the White Sox for the ninth time in their last 11 meetings.

YANKEES 10, BLUE JAYS 7: In New York, Ichiro Suzuki hit a go-ahead, tworun double in a seven-run fourth inning capped by Nick Swisher’s grand slam as New York beat Toronto to open a onegame East lead over idle Baltimore.

RAYS 7, RED SOX 4: In St. Petersburg, Fla., B.J. Upton hit a game-ending, threerun

homer off Vicente Padilla, capping Tampa Bay’s six-run ninth inning and lifting the Rays to a victory over Boston.

Tampa Bay remained 5½ games back of Oakland and Baltimore for the second wild-card slot.

RANGERS 3, ANGELS 1: In Anaheim, Calif., Adrian Beltre hit a tie-breaking two-run homer off Los Angeles closer Ernesto Frieri in the ninth inning as Texas beat the Angels to drop them 4

games out of the wild-card race.