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.

Warm day kindles White Sox’ fire in 8-3 win over Dodgers

Turns out, all the White Sox

needed was to see their shadows.

A little sun went a long way for Alexei Ramirez and his teammates Sunday as the Sox’ bats came alive for the third time in four games in an 8-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at U.S. Cellular Field.

The Sox are now 5-0-1 in their last six series. They’re 11-5 during that stretch, which they believe is reminiscent of their run last summer that brought them back into contention after a poor start.

‘‘It makes it easier when it’s warmer out,’’ said Paul Konerko, who was 0-for-3 as the designated hitter but pushed in a run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth. ‘‘It’s a combination of that and guys just knowing the team wouldn’t [slump] like that forever. [It’s] similar to last year when we got off to a slow start for six or seven weeks before we really came on.

And why that happens, I don’t know, but hopefully next year it won’t happen again. Hopefully that’s behind us now.’’

Also strikingly similar to last year is that interleague games are where the Sox are starting to turn things around. They were 15-3 against ­National League opponents in 2010 and have won their last 15 series against NL teams.

Ramirez hit a two-run homer off Hiroki Kuroda (5-4) to jump-start the Sox in the first inning and finished with four hits and five RBI to tie career highs in both categories. Leadoff hitter Juan Pierre was 3-for-4 with two runs scored, and A.J. Pierzynski also homered.

‘‘I definitely feel like the weather makes a difference,’’ Ramirez said through a translator. ‘‘It’s a lot easier to play. It feels like Cuba.’’

Adam Dunn, who has refused to get down on himself during his recent funk, showed signs of breaking out of it, going 1-for-2 with an RBI single and three walks.

‘‘I’m gonna fix it. It’s just a matter of how or when,’’ Dunn said. ‘‘It’s just one of those things. Sitting around pouting about it, moping about it isn’t going to change anything. . . . I want [the pitcher] to look at me and say, ‘He’s still dangerous. I don’t care what he’s hitting.’ If you’ve got that bad body language, like you’re pouting or something, what’s that solve?

‘‘[I’ve] been trying to almost get out of this stupid funk that I’m in by one swing, swinging as hard as I can — and that’s really not me. I don’t swing as hard as I can. I never have. I need to just relax and get back to the basics of seeing it and hitting it.’’

Manager Ozzie Guillen’s experiment with a six-man rotation continued to work, with starter Edwin Jackson (4-5) allowing only one run and five hits in 52/3 innings. Jackson also struck out seven and walked two.

‘‘It’s not bad — it’s definitely something new,’’ Jackson said of the extra man in the rotation. ‘‘It’s baseball. It’s a game of adjustments. . . . Regardless if it’s six days or seven days off, you have to be ready and mentally prepared to go in when it’s your day.’’

Jackson is 2-2 with a 2.07 ERA in his last three starts and has 28 strikeouts in his last six starts.

No. 8 hitter Jerry Sands had a career-high four hits for the Dodgers. Andre Either left the game with a bruised right elbow and bruised lower back after smashing into the fence trying to catch a drive by Juan Pierre in the fourth inning, and catcher Rod Barajas left the game with a sprained right wrist after Pierre slid into him on Konerko’s sacrifice fly. X-rays on both players were negative. Both were listed as day-to-day.