New York's Derek Jeter, left, slides past Texas catcher Bill Haselman. Jeter scored on a fielder's choice during the Yankees' 10-3 victory Monday in New York.

New York ? Jason Giambi reached 100 RBIs and Derek Jeter scored his 100th run. Alfonso Soriano set a team record for homers by a second baseman and Bernie Williams collected three more hits to extend his hitting streak to 17 games.

Yet on big day for New York’s bats, most of the talk was about one pitch: a blooper by Orlando Hernandez (7-3) that Alex Rodriguez blasted.

A-Rod hit his major league-leading 46th home run on an eephus pitch from El Duque, the most entertaining moment Monday in the Yankees’ 10-3 romp over Texas. The two players even joked about it outside the Rangers’ clubhouse after the game, though they declined to detail their discussion.

“You can expect a lot of different arm angles and a lot of different pitches from him, but I never thought I’d get a 48 mph curveball,” Rodriguez said. “It looked like a slow pitch, softball really. I think he threw one too many.”

Rafael Palmeiro followed Rodriguez’s drive with his 484th career home run, connecting on a fastball.

Hernandez (7-3) coasted through the early innings, keeping the Rangers off-balance.

A crowd of 42,785 turned out for the last date at Yankee Stadium before Friday’s strike deadline. It was a festive day as the AL East leaders feasted on Kenny Rogers (12-7). He gave up a career-high 13 hits in five-plus innings.

Soriano’s solo homer in the fourth broke the team mark for a second baseman of 30 set by Joe Gordon in 1940. Jeter joined Ted Williams (1939-49) and Earle Combs (1925-32) as the only players in modern history to score at least 100 runs in their first seven seasons.

Indians 8, Tigers 2

Cleveland Rookie Ricardo Rodriguez got his first career victory and ejection as Cleveland handed Detroit its sixth straight loss. Rodriguez (1-1), making just his second career start, was two outs away from a shutout when Randall Simon homered for the Tigers. Rodriguez’s next pitch hit Robert Fick on the right elbow, and he was immediately thrown out by plate umpire John Hirschbeck.

Three Indians batters were hit, including two in the eighth by Detroit’s Jamie Walker.

Matt Lawton hit a three-run homer and Jim Thome added a solo shot for the Indians.

Red Sox 10, Angels 9

Boston Johnny Damon hit a 320-foot homer to lead off the 10th inning as Boston came back from a four-run, ninth-inning deficit. Anaheim scored four times in the eighth to take a 9-5 lead. But the Red Sox sent it into extra innings with four runs in the ninth to hand Troy Percival his fourth blown save.

Anaheim fell a half-game behind Seattle in the AL wild-card race. Boston is three games back.

Blue Jays 8, White Sox 4

Chicago Toronto relievers pitched six hitless innings and Dewayne Wise hit a three-run double as the Blue Jays beat Chicago. Toronto has won four straight and Chicago has lost eight of its last 11.

Corey Thurman (2-2) earned the victory with three innings of relief. Mark Hendrickson worked the seventh, Cliff Politte pitched a perfect eighth and Kelvim Escobar finished.