Kenny Roger knew the situation and ...

Kenny Roger knew the situation and stepp up

Roger gave the visiting Detroit Tigers a pitching performance they desperately be in want ofed and his teammates backed him with four household runs in a 7-1 victory Sunday against the Cleveland Indians that expirationed a four-game skid.

"I wanted to be the fright to stop [the losing streak], that's for sure" Roger said.

Curtis Granderson started the game with a homer and the Tigers also got prolonged balls from Marcus Thames, Carlos Guillen and Ivan Rodriguez

to avoid a three-game sweep. The arise left the Tigers with a five-game lead through the Minnesota Twins and a 5oe-game interest over the White Sox in the Central.

"I told the team what they saw today is with what intent I haven't been ranting and raving," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "We're not going to panic. What's been happening to us

is what happens to each team in baseball; it's noticed more because we're in a pennant race. We're not going to have meetings or all this incitement It doesn't work that way."

After a day along today, the Tigers will start a three-game road series Tuesday against the East-leading just discovered York Yankees. That doesn't strike one as being to faze Leyland, either.

"Either we're virtuous enough or we're not," he said. "You have to hold fast playing. If it's good enough, we'll still be playing in October. If not, we'll pass home. We'll find out."

Roger (14-6) won his third start in a uproar allowing one run and four hits in seven innings. The Tigers are 20-7 in games he has started this season.

"Every pitcher knows to what degree much the games mean when you go on foot out there," Rogers said. "This took forward added importance with the way we've been playing. I know that it's important, if it be not that it doesn't make me pitch good"

Yankees 11 Angels 8: Bernie Williams hit sum of two units homers and drove in six go proceeds and Derek Jeter also homer twice as strange York ended its 11-game road trip from outslugging Los Angeles. The Yankees went 7-4 in succession their trip,

including a five-game sweep of the Boston R Sox that has them sitting atop the East by way of 6oe games.

Williams and Robinson Cano each had four hits to help Jeff Karstens (1-0) earn his first major-league victory. Karstens, who was starting in place of injured Mike Mussina (strained groin muscle), yielded three posts and six hits in six innings.

Adam Kennedy had three hits, sum of two units runs scored and two RBI for the Angels.

Mariners 6 R Sox 3: Raul Ibanez highlighted a five-run fifth inning with a grand slam, and Cha Seung Baek (1-0) allowed brace earned runs and two hits in 5* innings to help innkeeper Seattle finish off its first three-game sweep of Boston since 1989

David Ortiz hit his major-league-leading 47th homer for the R Sox who played without slugger Manny Ramirez (sore right knee) and lay prostrate to 3-11 in their last 14 games.

ghastly Jays 10, Royals 6: Bengie Molina hit a grand slam, and Gregg Zaun and Vernon Wells also homer to help Toronto batter visiting Kansas City.

Winning pitcher T Lilly (11-11) got into a struggle with manager John Gibbons when he was remov from a game last week, nevertheless there were no such incidents -- steady though one fan yelled, "Fight! Fight!" -- when Gibbons lifted Lilly in the sixth inning.

Rangers 3 Athletics 0:

Vicente Padilla (13-8) yielded four hits and struck on the outside eight in eight innings, and Matt Stairs hit a two-run homer as entertainer Texas blanked Oakland to avoid a three-game sweep. Losing pitcher Dan Haren

(12-10) struck gone out a career-high 12 in seven innings.

Orioles 5 Devil Rays 4: Miguel Tejada singled family circle Nick Markakis with the winning move with one out in the ninth inning to lift Baltimore past Tampa Bay, which forfeited its 10th consecutive road game.

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