Roundup: Orioles rally to beat Yankees in extras

Vladimir Guerrero homered, doubled twice and scored two runs for the Orioles, who celebrated their second consecutive extra-inning win over the Yankees by mobbing Andino at second base.

In the 10th, Nolan Reimold got an infield hit off Scott Proctor (0-1) with one out and advanced on a walk. Andino then hit a grounder inside third base that got Reimold home without a throw.

Clay Rapada (1-0) retired the only batter he faced in the 10th.

Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 4

At Toronto, Ricky Romero won for the seventh time in nine starts and J.P. Arencibia hit a three-run homer as Torfonto beat Boston.

Edwin Encarnacion and Eric Thames added solo shots as the Blue Jays won back-to-back games for the first time since Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 at Baltimore.

Rookie David Cooper went 3-for-4 and had two RBI as Toronto evened its record at 72-72.

Boston lost for the fourth time in five games and failed to gain ground on the first place New York Yankees, who lost 5-4 in 10 innings to Baltimore earlier in the day. The Red Sox are 2½ games behind New York with 19 left to play.

Romero (14-10) came in 2-6 with an 8.08 ERA in 11 career starts against the Red Sox, including a 0-3 record and 10.62 ERA in five home starts. But the left-hander turned his luck around in this one, allowing three runs and five hits in 6⅔ innings.

White Sox 8, Indians 1

CHICAGO — Brent Morel hit two homers and Paul Konerko had a grand slam to lift Chicago to a victory over Cleveland.

Morel hit a solo shot off Indians starter David Huff (2-4) in the third and a three-run homer off Frank Herrmann in the seventh — both on the first pitch. It was Morel's first career multi-homer game and his four RBI were a career-high.

Konerko's 10th career grand slam tied Robin Ventura's White Sox record and capped Chicago's seven-run seventh.

Gavin Floyd struck out four and held Cleveland to one run and five hits in 5⅔ innings. Matt Thornton (1-4) retired all four batters he faced, striking out three.

Mariners 4, Royals 1

SEATTLE — Justin Smoak hit his first home run in nearly three months, a two-run shot in the sixth inning, to help Seattle beat Kansas City.

Smoak hit a 1-1 fastball from Luke Hochevar (10-11) into the right-field seats for his 13th, but first since June 12. He had gone 48 games between home runs.

Jason Vargas (8-13) picked up the victory, his first since Aug. 10. He worked six innings, allowing four hits and one run. Jamey Wright, Tom Wilhelmsen each worked a hitless inning.

Brandon League had a little trouble getting out of the ninth. He took a two-out line drive from Mike Moustakas off his left leg, with Moustakas reaching. Shortstop Brendan Ryan bobbled a Johnny Giavotella ground ball.

League got Salvador Perez to ground out to end the game and earn his 34th save in 39 opportunities.

Reddick's walk-off single gives Red Sox edge over Yankees

Josh Reddick hit a game-ending RBI single in the 10th inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 3-2 on Sunday night.

With the win, the Red Sox took over sole possession of first place in the AL East and clinched a win in the

season series against New York for the first time since 2004.

The Yankees led 2-1 on homers by Eduardo Nunez and Brett Gardner before Mariano Rivera came in to close it out in the ninth.

But Marco Scutaro led off with a double for his fourth hit of the game. He moved up on a sacrifice and scored on a sacrifice fly to send the game into extra innings.

It was the fifth blown save of the season for Rivera, who pitched a scoreless inning in each of his first two appearances against Boston this season.

"That's huge. He's the best closer in the game right now," Reddick said.

David Ortiz sparked the game-ending rally with a one-out double against Phil Hughes (2-4). Darnell McDonald came in to run and the Yankees opted to walk Carl Crawford, who had three hits.

Reddick then hit a liner into the corner in left, driving in McDonald as the Fenway Park crowd erupted in cheers.

Daniel Bard (2-5) pitched a scoreless 10th for the win.

Boston lost the series opener but won the next two to snap the Yankees' eight-game winning streak and take the series. The Red Sox are 10-2 against New York this season with six games left, and one game up in the AL East.

Gardner had three hits for the Yankees, including the tiebreaking drive with two out in the seventh. He also stole two bases, giving him 35 on the season.

Nunez tied it with his homer in the fifth — one batter after Russell Martin was thrown out by Reddick trying to stretch a single into a double.

Meanwhile, the Red Sox kept producing baserunners -- and stranding them. They left the bases loaded in the second and sixth, and stranded a pair in the fourth.

Yanks schedule checkup on A-Rod's hip

BALTIMORE -- Alex Rodriguez said that he feels no discomfort in his surgically repaired right hip, but the Yankees slugger will agree to have an examination when the team returns to New York.

Rodriguez said that he could have an appointment on Friday, before the Yankees open the Subway Series at home against the Mets, but he stressed that there is no particular urgency to do so.

"Checkups are going to be part of the rest of my career," Rodriguez said. "We're doing it to be very proactive. I wouldn't be surprised if there's another one in October or January.

"Again, we'll be sitting here next year talking about that. We just want to make sure -- that's a certain box, and we want to check it off."

Rodriguez had a procedure performed in March 2009 that knocked him out until May 8, when he homered on the first pitch he saw from the Orioles' Jeremy Guthrie in Baltimore.

Rodriguez has had few ill effects since, and Dr. Marc Philippon gave him a clean bill of health over the winter to resume full-force baseball workouts instead of focusing on rehab exercises.

But recently, Rodriguez has been less inclined to use his lower half in swings, a flaw that hitting coach Kevin Long has worked to correct.

Rodriguez homered twice off the Rays' James Shields on Tuesday. Still, Long suggested that Rodriguez get the hip looked at, just to make sure he is as close to 100 percent as possible.

"It's definitely no excuse for any poor performance," Rodriguez said. "It has nothing to do with bad feelings or aching or anything. I've actually been working my tail off with Kevin and feeling better every day. Finally, yesterday, I got a little results."

Rodriguez typically has a winter checkup with Philippon in Vail, Colo., but the team is not expecting Philippon's presence to be necessary in New York.

"I think you just want to make sure he's OK," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "Al talked about being proactive and making sure that everything is OK.

"He said he doesn't necessarily feel anything, so from our standpoint, you're not worried about it. He's had checkups before. It's an issue he's had, and we thought he moved a lot better this year."

The expectation is that team physician Christopher Ahmad will be able to execute what Rodriguez believes will be a relatively routine checkup.

"There's no urgency," Rodriguez said. "We've had a little bit of a crazy schedule here, travel-wise, but when it's convenient for everybody, we'll get it done."

Dickerson hospitalized after scary HBP

BALTIMORE -- Orioles reliever Michael Gonzalez was ejected in the top of the 15th inning on Wednesday night after hitting Yankees outfielder Chris Dickerson in the head and causing him to exit the game, which New York went on to win, 4-1.

"In no way, shape or form was I trying to hit Dickerson or anything like that," said Gonzalez, who stood on the mound in a state of shock as Dickerson crumpled to the ground. "I was trying to throw a fastball down and away. It got away from me, and I'm sorry it hit him."

 Dickerson -- whose helmet endured a shattered bill -- did walk to first base after being examined by the Yankees' medical staff, but he was removed in favor of a pinch-runner -- starting pitcher A.J. Burnett -- almost immediately after arriving at the base. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said the team is erring on the side of caution with Dickerson, who was taken to the University of Maryland's hospital to undergo a CT scan.

"He was lucid and knew where he was at, but he had a lump on the side of his head," Girardi said, adding that Dickerson never lost consciousness and will probably be diagnosed with a concussion. "You've got to do everything precautionary now."

If the injury is ruled to be a concussion, Dickerson, who was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre prior to Tuesday's game, could be placed on the seven-day disabled list. Asked if he felt whether Gonzalez's pitch was intentional, Girardi said he wasn't going to speculate.

"It's just a scary part of the game when a guy gets hit there," Girardi said.

The ejection capped an already-ugly inning for Gonzalez, who allowed a go-ahead two-run double to Robinson Cano on his first pitch in relief. Gonzalez's 1-1 offering caught the side of Dickerson's head, and Gonzalez was ejected immediately by home-plate umpire Dan Bellino. The final member of the O's exhausted bullpen, Gonzalez remained on the field while manager Buck Showalter came out to talk to the umpiring crew, which had assembled near the first-base line.

"It was tough for me," Showalter said of keeping his cool upon going out to talk with Bellino and the rest of the crew. "First of all, you take a deep breath. Regardless of what decision that umpire makes -- a young umpire just starting out in the Major Leagues -- you've got a guy laying on the ground, and you don't know how seriously he's hurt, and I have a lot of concerns for that. I'm not going to go out there and vehemently argue while a guy's laying on the ground, potentially a real tough situation physically."

Like Gonzalez, Showalter was confident it wasn't a purpose pitch, but the manager understood why the call was made to toss the lefty from the game.

"I wouldn't have done it, but I'm biased," Showalter said. "I wouldn't have ejected him, but I can understand how someone [could]. ... My first thoughts weren't on Gonzo being ejected, but the health of Dickerson."

"It was kind of shocking," Gonzalez said of watching a stricken Dickerson fall to the ground. I hit him, and obviously I get thrown out, and I was more worried about how he was doing down there. You see a player go down like that -- obviously in his head area -- I really wasn't sure that [Bellino] threw me out or not.

"First of all, I didn't understand why," Gonzalez added, "and second of all, Dickerson is down there on the ground, and that's the last thing you want to see."

It was Gonzalez's first career ejection, and it capped a dismal outing in which he couldn't record an out, throwing just four pitches and charged with a run to raise his ERA to 8.53.