DETROIT ? The Oakland Athletics found a different way to get the job done Sunday.

The Athletics won their 12th straight game, rallying from a five-run deficit to beat the Detroit Tigers, 10-7, and maintain their two-game lead in the AL West.

Eric Chavez and John Mabry hit two-run doubles in a decisive five-run eighth inning.

The Athletics’ winning streak is their longest since they set an Oakland record with a 14-game string in 1988.

“We knew we’d get our shots,” said Greg Myers, whose leadoff pinch-hit homer started Oakland’s big rally in the eighth. “We didn’t give up.”

The Tigers lost their fifth straight game. Randall Simon hit a grand slam that gave Detroit a 7-2 lead in the fourth and tied a career high with five RBIs.

“It didn’t look good early,” said Chavez, whose broken-bat drive down the right-field line off Jamie Walker (1-1) brought the A’s within one run before Mabry’s pinch-hit double off Juan Acevedo put the A’s ahead.

“But we battled back and stayed in it. It was a different win but it was a good win,” he said.

The A’s had only trailed for a half-inning during the previous 11 victories of their streak, so the comeback was particularly gratifying to manager Art Howe who admitted to a little scoreboard watching and knowing that Seattle had won at Cleveland.

“This was one of our better wins of the year, definitely,” Howe said. “You’re down 7-2 and looking at the scoreboard. But we battled back. We felt like if we could get a couple, which we did, we’d have the chance to cash in and we did.”

Jim Mecir (4-3), the fifth of six Oakland pitchers, worked 1 1/3 innings for the win.

Angels 8, Red Sox 3

Boston Pinch-runner Chone Figgins, making his major league debut, scored the tiebreaking run on a squeeze bunt in a five-run ninth inning.

Figgins scored ahead of pitcher Derek Lowe’s throw on David Eckstein’s bunt.

Then pinch-hitters Alex Ochoa and Bengie Gil each drove in two runs Ochoa with a single and Gil with a triple.

The Angels lead the AL wild-card race. The Red Sox are 3 1/2 games behind Anaheim.

Scott Schoeneweiss (9-7) pitched the last two innings, retiring all six batters.

Boston center fielder Johnny Damon broke Ken Griffey’s AL record of 576 straight errorless chances when he caught Garret Anderson’s fly ball in the eighth.

Mariners 12, Indians 4

Cleveland Ben Davis homered twice, including a grand slam, and Freddy Garcia pitched eight strong innings.

Bret Boone had four hits and three RBIs for Seattle, which scored eight runs by the third inning after losing the first two games of the series on game-winning home runs.

The Mariners scored six in the third. Boone and Mike Cameron had RBI singles before Davis hit his second career slam.

Davis added a solo shot in the sixth for a career-high five RBIs and his first two-homer game.

Garcia (14-9) settled down after a rough first inning to get his first road win since June 19.

Rangers 6, Yankees 2

New York Rookie Joaquin Benoit held baseball’s most prolific offense scoreless until the seventh inning.

Alex Rodriguez drove in his major league-leading 113th run, Michael Young had two RBIs and Herbert Perry homered for the Rangers, who won for the seventh time in 10 games.

Texas improved to 7-6 against the Yankees the past two seasons after winning just 13 of the previous 55 meetings including nine straight losses in the playoffs.

Benoit (3-2) allowed two runs and seven hits in 623 innings. He didn’t permit a runner to reach third base until the seventh.

Blue Jays 5, Orioles 2

Baltimore Josh Phelps homered, and Vernon Wells had three hits and two RBIs.

Baltimore’s Mike Bordick broke Cal Ripken’s major league record for consecutive errorless chances by a shortstop, throwing out leadoff hitter Shannon Stewart on a grounder in the first inning to run his string to 429.

Bordick went on to complete his 81st game in a row without an error.

Blue Jays rookie Justin Miller (5-4) allowed one earned run, four hits and five walks in 523 innings.

White Sox 8, Devil Rays 3

Chicago Aaron Rowand hit a two-run homer and Gary Glover pitched four-hit ball through seven innings.

Tampa Bay has not won a series since June 28-30 against the Florida Marlins.

The Devil Rays have gone a club-record 16 straight series without winning one, the worst skid in the majors since the 1997 Philadelphia Phillies lost 23 series in a row.

Glover (6-6) gave up two runs in the first, then retired the next eight batters.

Joe Kennedy (7-9) set down the first eight Sox hitters before walking Josh Paul in the third and then giving up Rowand’s homer.