DETROIT – Placido Polanco hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give the Detroit Tigers a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Thursday.
The Tigers completed a three-game sweep and increased their lead in the AL Central to five games over the idle Twins.
Ryan Raburn led off the Detroit 10th with a double. Rafael Perez (4-3) then intentionally walked Miguel Cabrera and issued an unintentional free pass to Magglio Ordonez. Polanco followed with a fly ball to center and Raburn scored standing up.
Zach Miner (6-4) pitched 2 1-3 hitless innings to get the win.
Detroit led 3-0 before Cleveland rallied in the eighth. Asdrubal Cabrera had a two-out RBI single off Fu-Te Ni and Shin-Soo Choo followed with a tying two-run double.
At Chicago, rookie Carlos Torres threw seven crisp innings, Dewayne Wise made a great throw to cut down a runner at the plate and the White Sox won a makeup game, 5-0, between two city rivals whose seasons have gone awry.
Torres (1-0) earned his first major league win in his third career start. He allowed five hits, walked none and struck out six.
Wise, whose highlight-reel catch preserved Mark Buehrle’s perfect game back in July, made a strong throw from right field to nail Jake Fox at the plate and preserve a 1-0 White Sox lead in the seventh. Fox was trying to score from second on Jeff Baker’s single.
Ryan Dempster (8-8) gave up three unearned runs and nine hits in seven-plus innings for the Cubs.
At Toronto, Jorge Posada homered and drove in four runs as the Yankees beat the Blue Jays, 10-5, for their seventh straight victory.
The AL East leaders won for the 14th time in 17 road games. Toronto lost its fourth in a row.
Posada’s homer was his 20th, giving New York a major league-leading seven players with at least that many – it’s the first time the Yankees have done that in team history. (AP)