Oliver Still Has Indians’ Number

Darren Oliver and the Texas Rangers beat Cleveland again, and Juan Gonzalez extended his hitting streak to 21 games with a pair of RBI singles Saturday night in a 6-3 victory over the Indians at Arlington, Texas.

Oliver (11-6) won his third game this season against Cleveland, striking out seven and walking none in 8 1/3 innings as the Rangers improved their season record to 8-3 against the defending AL champions.

Gonzalez matched his career-long hitting streak set earlier in the season with run-scoring singles in the third and fifth innings. The RBIs gave him 28 in August, tying the club record for that month set by Jeff Burroughs in 1974.

Baltimore 7, Seattle 6--Eddie Murray failed to hit his 500th home run, but the Orioles hit three homers to set a single-season record with 215 at Seattle.

Pete Incaviglia, Brady Anderson and Bobby Bonilla hit homers for the Orioles.

Murray, who hit his 499th homer Friday night, had a pair of singles in five at-bats. He is bidding to become the 15th player to hit 500 homers.

Oakland 8, Boston 0--Mark McGwire hit his 46th homer and rookie Willie Adams threw a five-hitter as the Athletics won their third consecutive shutout at Oakland.

A’s pitchers extended their scoreless streak to 29 innings.

McGwire hit a two-run homer in the first that barely cleared the left-field fence.

Geronimo Berroa added a three-run shot for his 35th homer of the season, Brian Lesher hit a solo homer and Tony Batista had a two-run single for the A’s, who scored seven runs in the first three innings.

Chicago 5, Toronto 1--Danny Tartabull hit a two-run double and Wilson Alvarez (15-7) scattered seven hits over eight innings for the White Sox at Toronto.

Robin Ventura and Ray Durham each had two hits and scored two runs as Chicago won its third in a row.

With the score tied, 1-1, Tony Phillips opened the fifth with a walk off Huck Flener (2-1). Durham singled and Frank Thomas walked to load the bases before Tartabull doubled into the left-field corner to score both for a 3-1 lead.

Kansas City 3, Detroit 1--Doug Linton outdueled Felipe Lira to keep the Tigers from their first winning month in over a year, giving up three hits in 6 1/3 innings for the Royals at Detroit.

Linton (6-9) struck out a career-high nine and walked one to prevent Detroit, which finished August with a 14-15 record, from having its first winning month since June 1995.

Craig Paquette homered for Kansas City.

Lira (6-12) also allowed only three hits in 7 1/3 innings, but still lost his fifth decision in a row.

Milwaukee 3, Minnesota 2--Matt Mieske’s pinch-hit, two-run homer in the eighth inning lifted the Brewers at Milwaukee.

Mieske, batting for David Hulse, tied a career high with his 12th homer, a one-out shot off Rich Robertson (6-13).

A young boy caught the homer with his mitt at the railing in left field. Twin Manager Tom Kelly argued that it should have been ruled a double because the boy had leaned over the rail, but left fielder Roberto Kelly didn’t appear to have a chance to make the catch.