Minneapolis ? It just gets worse for the Detroit Tigers.

Even with a two-run lead in the eighth inning, the Tigers couldn’t win.

Detroit's Jacob Cruz reflects in the Detroit dugout after the Minnesota Twins beat the Tigers, 13-7, on Sunday in Minneapolis. Detroit fell to 0-11.

They couldn’t even keep close.

Pinch-hitter David Ortiz broke an 0-for-16 slump with a tiebreaking bases-loaded triple in an eight-run eighth inning, and the winless Tigers lost their 11th straight game, 13-7 Sunday to the Minnesota Twins.

“It’s getting tougher,” Bobby Higginson said. “You keep thinking when you’re coming into the ballpark that today’s going to be the day. It’s getting a little old.”

Craig Paquette homered twice, had four hits and made a nice defensive play at third to help the Tigers go ahead 7-5 their first eighth-inning lead since April 3 against Tampa Bay, when they lost 2-1 in 12 innings.

“I literally thought to myself, today is the day,” Tigers starter Steve Sparks said. “We’ve got the ball bouncing our way. I thought we’d cruise through there. I thought we’d cruise through there, especially when Paquette hit that home run.”

But it was Ortiz who broke a slump, not the Tigers.

A.J. Pierzynski singled off Jose Paniagua leading off in the eighth, Matt Anderson (0-1) relieved and pinch-hitter Bobby Kielty tied the game by homering on the third pitch.

“My fastball wasn’t there, but we’re all professionals. We’ve got find something else to get them out with,” Anderson said. “It’s difficult, but it’s 7-7 if we get out of that inning and we’ve got the momentum. I just couldn’t shut them down after that homer.”

Jacque Jones and Cristian Guzman followed with singles, Doug Mientkiewicz walked and Ortiz tripled to right for a 10-7 lead.

“Sometimes, when I face him, he tries to get me with the offspeed,” he said. “That one I hit was slider.”

Torii Hunter added an RBI single off Juan Acevedo, who later walked Kielty with the bases loaded and gave up Jones’ sacrifice fly.

“That’s a perfect example of why you have to play a full ballgame,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. “We were fighting and clawing pretty much the whole game to stay in it.”

Detroit, which replaced manager Phil Garner with Luis Pujols after six games, is off to its worst start since going 0-13 in 1920 and the worst in the major leagues since the 1997 Chicago Cubs began 0-14. The Tigers are off today, then start a series at home against Tampa Bay on Tuesday.

J.C. Romero (2-0), the fifth of six Twins pitchers, got one out for the win.

Yankees 6, Red Sox 2

Boston Mike Mussina retired his first 16 batters in his first Fenway Park appearance since falling one out short of a perfect game last summer, leading New York over Boston.

Mussina (3-0) finally allowed a runner on Doug Mirabelli’s hard single near the third-base line and left after giving up four hits in the seventh, including a two-run homer by Manny Ramirez.

Homers by Alfonso Soriano, Rondell White and Robin Ventura all leading off innings helped the Yankees stop a four-game losing streak and move back into the AL East lead, a half-game ahead of Boston.

Mariners 9, Rangers 7

Arlington, Texas Ruben Sierra went 5-for-5 against his former team to overcome a pair of home runs by Alex Rodriguez as Seattle won its seventh straight game.

Sierra, who hit a grand slam Friday, hit a single off Rudy Saenez (0-2) that put Seattle ahead to stay after the Mariners bounced back from a 5-1 deficit.

Rodriguez had a two-run homer in the fourth and a three-run drive in the sixth for his 21st career multihomer game. Rodriguez and Rangers starter Kenny Rogers were participants in a fourth-inning triple play, the first in the major leagues this season.

Seattle, which had 18 hits, scored eight runs against the bullpen to improve to 7-0 in the road. The Mariners set an AL record with 59 road wins last season.

Angels 4, Athletics 1

Anaheim, Calif. Garret Anderson homered in his second straight game and David Eckstein went 3-for-4 with an RBI double as Anaheim snapped a six-game losing streak. Kevin Appier (1-1) allowed one run and four hits over seven innings in his third start with the Angels. Eric Chavez, who homered for Oakland, was one of only two runners to get past first base against Appier.

The victory ended Anaheim’s nine-game losing streak against Oakland.

Orioles 9, White Sox 4

Chicago Melvin Mora hit a three-run homer and scored three times, and Jay Gibbons added a two-run shot to lead Baltimore.

Calvin Maduro (1-1) pitched in and out of trouble over six innings for the Orioles. Maduro gave up three runs, seven hits and two walks. Carlos Lee homered for the White Sox, who did not get another good outing from Dan Wright (1-1), who allowed five runs in two-plus innings.

Devil Rays 5, Blue Jays 4

St. Petersburg, Fla. Ben Grieve hit an RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Tampa Bay the win.

Randy Winn hit a two-out double off Pasqual Coco (0-1). After Steve Cox was intentionally walked and Greg Vaughn walked on a 3-2 pitch, Grieve singled down the left-field line.

Esteban Yan (1-0) retired all seven batters he faced for the win.