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Saturday September 2 4:06 a.m. EDT

Yanks Beat A's; Rangers Lose Again

NEW YORK (Reuter) -- Mike Stanley's two-out single scored Paul O'Neill with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning as the New York Yankees defeated the Oakland Athletics, 8-7, Friday for their fourth consecutive victory. The win kept the Yankees within two games in the American League wild card race. Oakland fell to three games behind Seattle and Kansas City. In Arlington, Texas, Gary Gaetti drove in two runs and rookie Johnny Damon homered for the second straight game, leading the Kansas City Royals to their sixth straight win, 5-2 over the Texas Rangers. The Royals' eighth victory in nine games kept them tied with Seattle atop the wild card race and dropped slumping Texas one game behind. The Rangers have lost five straight and seven of their last eight outings. In Baltimore, Joey Cora homered and added an RBI single and Tim Belcher pitched 6 1/3 strong innings to lead the Seattle Mariners to 4-3 victory over the slumping Baltimore Orioles. The Mariners have won six of eight. Baltimore, which has dropped six straight home games, has lost the first four games of its 10-game homestand and fell six games back in the wild card race. In Chicago, five relievers combined to allow one run over seven innings and Norberto Martin's third-inning RBI groundout snapped a tie as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-3. In Minneapolis, Chuck Knoblauch homered, went 4-for-5 and drove in a career-high four runs as the Minnesota Twins rallied for a 9-5 victory over the slumping Milwaukee Brewers, extending their winning streak to a season-high four games. Milwaukee has lost five straight games and has fallen two games behind Seattle and Kansas City in the wild card chase. In Boston, Tim Naehring recorded his third four-hit game of the year and drove in three runs and Roger Clemens won his fourth straight decision as the Boston Red Sox rolled to a 11-3 rout of the slumping California Angels in a battle between division leaders. Clemens (7-4) scattered 10 hits in 7 2/3 innings. He allowed two earned runs, walked two and struck out nine. The loss was the seventh in a row for the first-place Angels, who leads Seattle by 6 1/2 games in the AL West.


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