The Los Angeles Angels got RBI triples from Vladimir Guerrero and Gary Matthews Jr in the eighth inning to rally past the Minnesota Twins 5-3 to level their four-game series. Trailing 3-0, Mark Teixeira homered in the sixth and Howie Kendrick scored on a groundout in the seventh to cut Minnesota's lead to 3-2. Teixeira led off the eighth with a double against Denny Reyes and scored when Guerrero drove a 0-1 pitch from Jesse Crain (5-3) to the centre for his third triple of the season. Matthews later tripled in the run and scored on Juan Rivera's sacrifice fly.
In Chicago, Alexei Ramirez singled home the winning run in the 10th inning after AJ Pierzynski's bizarre trip around the bases, and Chicago rallied to avoid a sweep. Jim Thome hit his 534th homer, as Carlos Quentin also connected and the White Sox tied it 5-5 in the ninth on the pinch-hitter Paul Konerko's two-out single off fill-in closer Dan Wheeler. Pierzynski led off the 10th with a single against Jason Hammel (4-4), then tagged up and went to second on a flyout to the centre. In Baltimore, Robinson Cano hit the tie-breaking homer in the seventh inning after New York blew a five-run lead, and the Yankees hung on to finish a three-game sweep.
Cano had two doubles, two RBIs and two runs to his credit, while Johnny Damon hit a three-run homer and Bobby Abreu had three hits for the Yankees. * AP