Boston ? If Brian Tallet keeps pitching like this, he may start a new baseball fashion trend around Cleveland.

Tallet pitched six shutout innings in his major league debut and Travis Fryman hit a three-run homer to lift the Indians over the Boston Red Sox 7-1 for a split of their day-night doubleheader Monday.

Boston pitcher Pedro Martinez was working on a 3-0 shutout of Cleveland when the first game of Monday's doubleheader was stopped due to heavy rain. The Bosox split, winning Game One, 6-1, and losing the second, 7-1.

Tallet, who turns 25 on Sept. 21, wears his pant legs high, showing his stirrups a style not seen for a while in the majors.

“I didn’t realize he wore his pants like that,” Indians manager Joel Skinner said. “That was great.”

Tallet, a 2000 second-round selection out of LSU, split the season in Double-A Akron and Triple-A Buffalo before his start. The rookie allowed four hits, walked three and fanned one.

“The butterflies started to come and I just told myself to relax,” Tallet said. “To go out there and give the team six good innings to keep them at bay I couldn’t ask for anymore.”

As for his uniform style, he said it’s now a superstition.

“Being as tall as I am, I had trouble finding pants my size,” the 6-foot-7 Tallet said. “I started it in Akron, went 2-1 and got to Buffalo. Then I got here. I just want to keep it going.”

Boston’s loss cut the New York Yankees’ magic number in the AL East to four.

“He had very good composure out there on the mound for a young kid,” Red Sox manager Grady Little said.

In the opener, Pedro Martinez (19-4) pitched five scoreless innings as Boston beat the Indians 6-1.

Martinez left Fenway Park in uniform after the game to get something to eat, then returned for the second game.

He called himself a “picky eater” who rarely dines on clubhouse food.

“I went home to eat,” Martinez said with a smile. “Yes, I was nice and clean. I took a shower.”

Other players left the ballpark between games, too, a Red Sox spokesman said.

There was no buffet set up in the clubhouse after the first game.

Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez were among five Red Sox regulars who did not play the nightcap.

In the nightcap, the Indians took the lead with a pair of runs in the fourth off Frank Castillo (5-15) on consecutive sacrifice flies by Karim Garcia and Lee Stevens. They chased Castillo with two more in the sixth on RBI singles by Stevens and Fryman.

Fryman’s homered into the screen above the Green Monster off reliever Rolando Arrojo, making it 7-0 in the seventh.

After the homer, the crowd broke into a brief chant of “Let’s Go Patriots!” before many headed for the exits.

Johnny Damon tripled and scored on the same play on Garcia’s throwing error from right field for Boston’s run.

Castillo has lost his last eight decisions.

Blue Jays 2, Orioles 0

Baltimore Pete Walker pitched four-hit ball for seven innings, and Josh Phelps homered and drove in two runs.

Phelps hit a two-out RBI single in the sixth inning and added his 15th homer in the ninth to help the Blue Jays win for the seventh time in eight games.

The Orioles, who had won two of three during a weekend series in Boston, were denied their first successive victories since Aug. 22-23. Baltimore, which has lost 20 of 23, was shut out for the 14th time this season.

Walker (9-4) walked two and struck out four for the Blue Jays, who moved 2 1/2 games ahead of Baltimore for third place in the AL East.

Cliff Politte pitched a perfect eighth inning, and Kelvim Escobar worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his 34th save. The Blue Jays have five shutouts this year.

Orioles starter Sidney Ponson (7-7) allowed six hits, walked two and struck out four in his third complete game of the season. But he was undone by three consecutive two-out singles in the sixth.

Vernon Wells started the rally by snapping a career-worst 0-for-26 drought. He moved to third on a hit-and-run single by Carlos Delgado and scored when Phelps’ hard-hit grounder down the line glanced off the glove of third baseman Tony Batista.

Baltimore’s best threat came in the seventh, when Jay Gibbons drew a leadoff walk and advanced to second on Melvin Mora’s one-out single to center. But Walker got pinch-hitter Luis Lopez to bounce into an inning-ending double play.

Athletics 4, Angels 3

Oakland, Calif. Miguel Tejada singled home the winning run in the ninth inning as the Oakland Athletics snapped Anaheim’s six-game winning streak and tied the Angels for first place in the AL West.

Ray Durham and Jermaine Dye homered for the A’s, who opened a key four-game series by handing Anaheim just its second loss in 18 games. Both teams are 94-56 with 12 games to go in baseball’s most competitive division race.

Troy Glaus hit a three-run shot in the first inning to match a major league record with a homer in his fourth straight at-bat, but it was all the offense Anaheim could muster. Cory Lidle pitched seven strong innings, and Billy Koch (10-3) worked the ninth.

Glaus, who hit a career-high three homers Sunday against Texas, repeated a feat that’s been accomplished 31 times before with a long homer to right. He struck out in the fourth to end the streak.

Durham, who reached base four times, singled with one out in the ninth against Al Levine (4-4). After pinch-hitter David Justice beat out a hard grounder that was bobbled by Adam Kennedy for an infield hit, Tejada who left six runners on base in his three previous at-bats singled up the middle.