DETROIT – Mike Maroth won again, pitching eight sharp innings and leading the Detroit Tigers over the Oakland Athletics 3-1 Thursday.

Maroth (4-1) was 9-21 last season and did not post his fourth victory until July 5.

Maroth ended the Athletics’ season-high three-game winning streak, allowing one run and five hits. He walked one and struck out four.

Ugueth Urbina pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth save in as many tries. The Tigers stopped Oakland’s streak of 14 straight games with a home run.

Ivan Rodriguez homered and Carlos Guillen had three hits and scored twice for the Tigers. Detroit won despite getting four runners thrown out on the bases, three on steal attempts.

Mark Redman (2-2) pitched a complete game, giving up 12 hits in his first start against his former team.

Yankees 7, Angels 4

NEW YORK – Jon Lieber pretty much dominated the top-scoring team in the major leagues, looking completely recovered from the elbow operation that caused him to miss last season.

Lieber retired his first 11 batters, then gave up four straight hits before getting 11 more outs in a row, leading the New York Yankees over the Anaheim Angels 7-4 Thursday.

Ruben Sierra, Hideki Matsui and Bernie Williams hit solo homers off John Lackey, with Williams getting his first three-hit game of the season.

Jason Giambi hit a pair of opposite-field RBI singles for the Yankees, who took two of three against the team that knocked them out of the 2002 AL playoffs.

Devil Rays 6, Rangers 3

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Carl Crawford snapped a sixth-inning tie with an RBI single and had three hits, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays ended a season-high seven-game losing streak Thursday with a 6-3 victory over the Texas Rangers.

Mark Hendrickson (2-3) allowed three runs and seven hits in six-plus innings as the Devil Rays, the only team in the majors that has yet to win consecutive games, won for just the third time in 17 games.

Michael Young had a solo homer and an RBI single for the Rangers, finishing 3-for-5 for his major league-leading 20th multihit game. He also leads the majors with 56 hits.

Crawford, who went 3-for-4, snapped a 3-all tie with his run-scoring single off R.A. Dickey (4-2). Julio Lugo followed with an RBI double that gave Hendrickson a 5-3 lead that the Tampa Bay bullpen protected after the starter allowed two runners to reach base to open the seventh.

Twins 1, Mariners 0

MINNEAPOLIS – Johan Santana allowed six hits over seven innings, and the Minnesota Twins completed their first home sweep of the Seattle Mariners in 12 years with a 1-0 victory Thursday.

Michael Cuddyer hit an RBI double in the second inning, and Santana (2-0) got some help from center fielder Torii Hunter to preserve the shutout and the Twins’ first sweep over Seattle in Minnesota since 1992.

With two outs and Scott Spiezio on second, Santana gave up a single to pinch-hitter Dan Wilson. Hunter’s perfect throw just beat a sliding Spiezio, who was tagged out by catcher Henry Blanco.

Santana, who walked two and struck out five, and Terry Mulholland, J.C. Romero and Joe Nathan completed the eight-hitter. Nathan pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save.

Orioles 1-5, White Sox 0-6

CHICAGO – Paul Konerko broke out of a 2-for-31 slump with a go-ahead three-run homer and had five RBIs Thursday, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 to gain a split of their doubleheader.

In the opener, Daniel Cabrera made an impressive major league debut, allowing two hits in six strong innings to spark Baltimore’s 1-0 victory.

The second game was delayed 1 hour, 42 minutes by rain in the bottom of the sixth.

White Sox rookie Felix Diaz made his major league debut in the second game and wasn’t nearly as good.

He gave up four homers to the Orioles in 4 1-3 innings, including three in the fifth.

Rafael Palmeiro hit a solo shot in the second, the 533rd of his career and one shy of tying Jimmie Foxx for 13th place. Luis Matos led off the fifth with a homer and after a single by Larry Bigbie, Jerry Hairston hit a two run-shot and Melvin Mora followed with a homer down the right-field line to make it 5-3.

But just as rain began to fall in the sixth, Baltimore lefty Erik Bedard (0-1) gave up a single to Magglio Ordonez and walked Frank Thomas. Joe Crede’s bunt forced Ordonez at third before Konerko drove his three-run homer through the rain. After Jose Valentin popped out, the game was stopped.

Chicago matched its hit total of the first game in the first inning of the nightcap with three hits off Bedard and three runs. Bedard threw a wild pitch with the bases loaded and Konerko hit a two-run single. Konerko finished 2-for-3 after going 0-for-4 in the opener.

Mike Jackson (2-0), who relieved Diaz, got the win with 1 2-3 innings of one-hit relief. Billy Koch pitched the ninth for his six save.

It was quite a contrast to the opener when Cabrera and two relievers hurled a three-hit shutout.

“I know that not all of my games are going to be like this. They are all going to be harder,” Cabrera said through a translator.

The 6-foot-7 Cabrera, called up from Double-A two days ago, gave up two hits to Ross Gload, a first-inning infield single and a line drive single in the sixth.

It was the 22-year-old Cabrera’s first pro win above the Class-A level and he retired 11 straight at one juncture.

Cabrera walked three and struck out three in his 91-pitch outing.

Rodrigo Lopez pitched two innings of one-hit relief, striking out Willie Harris with runners at first and third in the seventh and retiring three straight batters in the eighth.

Jorge Julio completed the three-hitter with a perfect ninth for his sixth save.

Baltimore right fielder Jay Gibbons made two superb plays, diving and catching Carlos Lee’s liner in the first and making a running over-the-shoulder grab of Juan Uribe’s long drive in the fifth.

The Orioles reached Jon Garland (2-2) for a first-inning run when Brian Roberts hit a leadoff single, stole second and moved to third when catcher Sandy Alomar Jr.’s throw hit him and went into the outfield for an error.

Melvin Mora then followed with an RBI single. Garland allowed six hits and a run in seven innings.

Notes: Konerko was 0-for-4 in the first game. …Ordonez was not in the starting lineup in the opener because of a sore toe, but made the final out as a pinch-hitter. He got the injury fouling a pitch off his toe Tuesday. He started the second game and had two hits. .. Orioles SS Miguel Tejada, who had to leave Tuesday’s game with a muscle strain in his right shin, started both games. He’s now played in 625 straight, the longest active streak in the majors. … Rodriguez has not allowed a run in his last 11 innings over five appearances. … The White Sox officially called Diaz up between games and sent catcher-infielder Jamie Burke to Triple-A Charlotte.

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