DETROIT – The Detroit Tigers became the first AL team to lose 111 games since the 1939 St. Louis Browns, dropping to Kansas City 10-4 Monday night as Joe Randa drove in five runs.

At 38-111, Detroit has the most defeats in the majors since the 1965 New York Mets lost 112 times. The Tigers need five wins in their final 13 games to avoid matching the modern-day record of 120 losses, set by the 1962 Mets.

Braves 10, Expos 6

MONTREAL – Robert Fick hit his first home run in six weeks as the Atlanta Braves reduced its magic number for clinching a record 12th straight division title to three with a 10-6 victory over the Montreal Expos on Monday night.

Horacio Ramirez (11-4) won his third straight decision for Atlanta, which got its major league-leading 94th win and moved 10 games ahead of Florida in the NL East. Ramirez allowed seven hits and two runs in seven innings.

Cubs 4, Mets 1

CHICAGO – Matt Clement matched his career high with his 13th victory as the Chicago Cubs gained ground in the NL Central race by beating the New York Mets 4-1 Monday night.

Randall Simon had two RBIs for Chicago, which pulled within 1 games of first-place Houston, which was idle. The Mets lost for the 10th time in 11 games.

Pirates 6, Reds 3

PITTSBURGH – Matt Stairs hit a three-run homer in support of Ryan Vogelsong’s first major league victory as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-3 on Monday night.

Rangers 6, Mariners 4

ARLINGTON, Texas – Rafael Palmeiro and Mark Teixeira homered as the Texas Rangers ended a five-game losing streak and dropped Seattle farther back in the AL wild-card race, beating the Mariners 6-4 Monday night.

Palmeiro’s shot made him just the second player in major league history to reach 35 homers and 100 RBIs in nine straight seasons. Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx is the only other player to do it.

Palmeiro’s 525th career homer, a solo shot, came in the fourth inning off Joel Pineiro and gave him 103 RBIs.

Twins 13, Indians 6

CLEVELAND – Torii Hunter tied his career high with five RBIs as the Minnesota Twins defeated the Cleveland Indians 13-6 Monday night and took sole possession of the AL Central lead for the first time since June 30.

Hunter, Michael Ryan and Cristian Guzman each drove in two runs during an eight-run sixth inning. Hunter added a three-run homer in the ninth of Terry Mulholland, giving him 99 RBIs, a career high.

Cardinals 11, Brewers 2

ST. LOUIS – Brett Tomko allowed six hits over eight innings and drove in three runs as the St. Louis Cardinals snapped a four-game losing streak with an 11-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night.

Tomko went 2-for-4, including a two-run single in the second and an RBI single in the third, as the Cardinals moved within five games of idle Houston in the NL Central.

Albert Pujols hit his 42nd home run.

Yankees 13, Orioles 1

BALTIMORE – Alfonso Soriano went 4-for-5 with two home runs, and Aaron Boone also connected twice to lead a six-homer attack that carried the New York Yankees past the Baltimore Orioles 13-1 Monday night.

Soriano set the tone by driving the first pitch of the game into the left-field seats, and New York took control by scoring five runs in a span of

five pitches against Rodrigo Lopez (7-10) during a six-run fourth.

Athletics 7, Angels 4

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Miguel Tejada hit a grand slam as the Oakland Athletics beat the Anaheim Angels 7-4 on Monday night to win their seventh in a row and open a 4-game lead in the AL West.

Ted Lilly pitched five innings of one-hit ball for Oakland, which took its biggest lead of the season a few hours after second-place Seattle lost 6-4 at Texas.

Tejada’s second grand slam of the season – and seventh of his career – came on a 3-2 pitch from Ramon Ortiz during a six-run outburst in the fourth inning.

Lilly (11-9) won his fifth consecutive start, shutting out the Angels and allowing only one batter to reach: David Eckstein with a leadoff single in the fourth. With a 7-0 lead, manager Ken Macha took Lilly out after he had thrown just 67 pitches.

Keith Foulke got three outs – including Robb Quinlan’s pop fly to first with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth – for his 43rd save in 48 chances.

Oakland reliever Steve Sparks gave up a two-run homer to Tim Salmon, his 17th, in the seventh. Salmon added an RBI double off Chad Harville in the ninth to make it 7-3.

Shawn Wooten hit an RBI single off Foulke for Anaheim’s final run.

Ortiz (15-12) allowed seven runs on nine hits in 3 2-3 innings. He walked two, including Eric Byrnes with the bases loaded and no outs in the fourth.

Ortiz hadn’t pitched in 12 days. He rejoined the club Saturday after attending his father’s funeral in the Dominican Republic.

Ramon Hernandez had an RBI single in the second, then the A’s rocked Ortiz in the fourth.

After the Angels’ right-hander forced home Oakland’s second run, Eric Chavez hit an RBI single with two outs. Tejada followed with his 27th home run, driving a fastball over the wall in left-center.

The grand slam gave Tejada 101 RBIs, his fourth consecutive season with more than 100. He had a career-high 131 RBIs last year.

Lilly has given up only four earned runs in 30 1-3 innings, and struck out 32 in his last five starts.

Notes: Oakland RF Jose Guillen is expected to be lost for the rest of the season with a broken bone in his left hand, Macha said. Guillen hurt the hand striking out in the second inning of Sunday’s game in Texas. “That type of thing normally ends your season,” the manager said. … The Athletics’ 53-22 home record is baseball’s best this season, but they are 38-38 on the road despite being 20-11 since losing a four-game series at Minnesota just after the All-Star break. They haven’t finished under .500 on the road since going 35-46 in 1999. … Angels TV analyst Rex Hudler, recently suspended after being arrested for investigation of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, won’t work any more games this season. Hudler, whose contract runs through 2005, was charged two weeks ago after security guards did a random search of his luggage at the Kansas City airport. “The suspension is going to be intact for the remainder of the season,” Anaheim vice president Tim Mead said.

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