By The Associated Press

BALTIMORE – Bruce Chen pitched a four-hitter, and Miguel Tejada and Sammy Sosa hit successive homers to spark a seven-run sixth inning that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the New York Yankees 8-1 Friday night.

Tejada and Sosa each had two hits and three RBIs, and Brian Roberts went 3-for-5 to lift his batting average to .429. The Orioles are 3-1 against New York this season; last year they started 0-7 against the Yankees and finished 5-14.

Chen and Carl Pavano were locked in a pitcher’s duel before Tejada and Sosa connected to put the Orioles up 3-1. After an error by second baseman Rey Sanchez, Luis Matos and Roberts hit two-out RBI singles and Tejada drew a bases-loaded walk from Felix Rodriguez.

Sosa then drove in two runs with a ground-rule double for an 8-1 lead.

Sosa’s home run was the 576th of his career and second this season, the first at Camden Yards since he joined the Orioles as a free agent in February. He has now homered in 42 ballparks.

Chen (1-0) struck out three and walked one in his second career complete game in 70 starts. The left-hander retired his first seven batters and 11 straight before Hideki Matsui singled in the seventh.

Chen’s only other complete game came last Sept. 13, a five-hitter against Toronto.

Bernie Williams drove in the lone run for the Yankees (4-6), off to their worst start since 1991.

Pavano (0-2) was pitching for the first time since being struck in the head by a liner off the bat of Baltimore’s Melvin Mora on April 10. Both of Pavano’s losses this season have come against the Orioles, who courted the free agent during the offseason.

The right-hander yielded seven runs, three earned, and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings.

The Orioles went up 1-0 in the first when Mora hit a one-out double and scored on a triple by Tejada, his seventh straight game with an RBI.

New York tied it in the third. Tino Martinez walked, went to second on an infield hit by Sanchez and scored on a single by Williams.

The Yankees, however, got only two more hits the rest of the way.

Twins 3, Indians 2

CLEVELAND – Johan Santana kept his personal winning streak going and added another victory to Minnesota’s run, too.

Santana won his 16th straight decision, pitching six strong innings as the Twins won their fifth straight, 3-2 over the Cleveland Indians on Friday night.

The 2004 AL Cy Young Award winner, Santana (3-0) remained unbeaten since July 11 of last season, a stretch of 20 starts that included two postseason outings against New York.

He allowed two runs and six hits.

In improving to 5-0 in his career against Cleveland and outdueling Jake Westbrook (0-3), Santana became the first pitcher to win 16 straight decisions since Roger Clemens, who did it for the Yankees in 2001.

Santana settled down after allowing two runs – on solo homers to Victor Martinez and Ryan Ludwick – in the second inning.

The left-hander walked none and struck out 10 before turning it over to Minnesota’s bullpen in the seventh.

Rangers 4, Blue Jays 2

ARLINGTON, Texas – Ryan Drese pitched eight strong innings, and Michael Young homered and drove in three runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 on Friday night.

Drese (1-1) allowed two runs and six hits to earn the second victory by a Texas starter this season. He struck out one and didn’t issue a walk.

Drese had his sinker working, getting 14 ground-ball outs and retiring 13 in a row from the third through the seventh.

Francisco Cordero got three outs, two on strikeouts, for his fourth save in six chances.

White Sox 6, Mariners 4

CHICAGO – Jon Garland retired his first 19 batters and allowed just two hits in seven innings, pitching the Chicago White Sox past the Seattle Mariners 6-4 on Friday night.

Garland, Chicago’s No. 5 starter, lost his bid for a perfect game when he walked Jeremy Reed on a 3-2 pitch with one out in the seventh. Adrian Beltre followed with a single up the middle on a 1-2 pitch for Seattle’s first hit.

After Garland (2-0) walked Raul Ibanez, loading the bases, Bret Boone singled to right to drive in two runs. Garland, who struck out three, got through the seventh before he was lifted for Luis Vizcaino.

Boone’s two-run single off Shingo Takatsu cut it to 6-4 in the ninth, but Dustin Hermanson finished for his second save.

The White Sox used four relievers in the ninth – Hermanson struck out Scott Spiezio and retired pinch-hitter Greg Dobbs on a grounder with the bases loaded to end it.

Royals 6, Tigers 5

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Angel Berroa hit a two-run home run in the eighth inning Friday night to cap the Kansas City Royals’ comeback from an early five-run deficit in a 6-5 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

Berroa, who also singled and doubled, hit an 0-1 pitch from Ugueth Urbina (1-1) after Eli Marrero drew a two-out walk.

Jaime Cerda (1-1) got the win with one inning of hitless relief.

Jeremy Affeldt got the first two outs in the ninth, and left with an apparent injury after walking Brandon Inge, and Mike MacDougal came on got Carlos Guillen to ground out to second for his first save.

Craig Monroe’s three-run homer capped a five-run first inning for the Tigers, who have lost five straight and announced earlier Friday that outfielder Magglio Ordonez would be out 4-6 weeks following hernia surgery.

The Tigers had two singles, a walk, a triple and Monroe’s homer to take a 5-0 lead off Jose Lima, who hadn’t made it out of the fourth inning in his first two starts and began the night with a 10.80 ERA.

But after Nook Logan’s single and third baseman Tony Graffanino’s throwing error on Ivan Rodriguez’s grounder in the second, Lima allowed only three of the next 19 batters to reach base. The 32-year-old right-hander allowed seven hits in seven innings.