Surging Rays rout reeling A’s, 13-4

at Tampa Bay 13, Oakland 4: Jason Bartlett drove in a career-high five runs and the Rays beat the struggling Athletics for a season-best four-game winning streak. Bartlett was three for three with a walk to raise his batting average to .384. Oakland, swept at Detroit over the weekend, has been outscored 47-13 during a four-game losing streak in which its starting pitchers have yielded 31 runs (23 earned) in 13 innings.

at Toronto 3, Chicago 2: Alex Rios hit a go-ahead triple in the eighth inning and the Blue Jays completed a four-game sweep. Jim Thome had tied it in the top of the eighth with a two-run homer, the 548th home run of his career, for the White Sox, who lost their season-high fifth in a row and have dropped 10 in a row at Toronto.

Angels 10, at Seattle 6: Kendry Morales homered twice for the Angels.