Greenwell Sets Mark By Getting Nine RBIs

Mike Greenwell set a major league record by driving in all nine Boston runs, the final one scoring on his single in the 10th inning Monday night that gave the Red Sox a 9-8 victory over the Seattle Mariners at the Kingdome.

Greenwell, who had four of Boston’s seven hits, hit a two-run home run, a grand slam, a two-run double and his single to account for all nine runs. By driving in all his team’s runs, Greenwell broke the record of eight runs batted in shared by George Kelly of the New York Giants (1924) and Bob Johnson of the Philadelphia Athletics (1938).

In the 10th, Will Cordero and Jeff Manto walked with one out. Greenwell followed with an RBI single to left against Rafael Carmona (6-3).

Heathcliff Slocumb (3-5) pitched 2 1/3 innings for the victory.

Greenwell’s two-out double in the eighth inning against Norm Charlton tied the score, 8-8.

Seattle’s Alex Rodriguez, 21, became the third youngest player in major league history to hit 35 home runs in a season with a two-run shot in the seventh.

Only Hall of Famers Mel Ott, who was 20 years and 184 days old, and Frank Robinson, on his 21st birthday, were younger than Rodriguez, who has an 18-game hitting streak.

Kansas City 2, Toronto 0--Tim Belcher needed only 90 pitches and 1 hour and 53 minutes to pitch a four-hit shutout at Toronto.

Toronto’s Erik Hanson pitched a six-hitter in the quickest game in the majors this season.

Belcher (13-8), who struck out five and didn’t walk a batter for his first shutout of the season and 17th of his career, was nearly perfect through eight innings, facing two batters over the minimum on two-out singles by Joe Carter in the fourth and John Olerud in the seventh.

Milwaukee 7, Cleveland 6--Jose Valentin singled home the winning run with two out in the ninth inning at Milwaukee.

Cleveland led, 5-1, in the third and was ahead, 6-5, when Jeff Cirillo singled with one out in the ninth. Cirillo was forced at second on Dave Nilsson’s fielder’s choice.

Pinch-runner David Hulse stole second, took third on John Jaha’s infield single and scored on a wild pitch by Jose Mesa, who blew a save for the fifth time in 36 chances.

Jaha went to second on the wild pitch and scored on Valentin’s looping liner to left.

Minnesota 6, Texas 4--Chuck Knoblauch led off the game with a homer for the second consecutive day as the Twins beat the Rangers at Arlington, Texas.

Knoblauch, who hit his 12th homer in the first inning against Ken Hill (14-8), is batting .595 (22 for 38) against Texas this season.

Texas’ Ivan Rodriguez doubled in the eighth inning to set the single-season major league record for doubles by a catcher. Rodriguez’s 43rd double broke the record shared by Mickey Cochrane (1930), Terry Kennedy (1982) and Brian Harper (1990).

Detroit 8, Chicago 6--Travis Fryman hit a three-run homer with two out in the ninth inning at Chicago as the Tigers ended Chicago’s four-game winning streak.

Roberto Hernandez (6-2) blew a save for the seventh time in 41 chances. With Chicago leading, 6-5, he walked Brad Ausmus with one out in the ninth. Kimera Bartee and Mark Lewis followed with singles, but left fielder Tony Phillips threw out Ausmus at the plate.