Arlington, Texas ? The Anaheim Angels missed another chance to get into the postseason on their own. And they didn’t get any help later Wednesday night.

After the Angels lost their fourth straight game, 4-3 at Texas, they still had a chance to clinch their first playoff berth since 1986.

But Seattle had its second straight come-from-behind win, 3-2 against AL West-leading Oakland to put Anaheim’s celebration off another day.

“We’re still in the driver’s seat,” said Angels manager Mike Scioscia.

Anaheim has lost seven of nine games, its worst such stretch since April.

“Our record shows we’re a good club,” said Scioscia, whose team already has a team-record 96 wins. “This is a little bump in the road. It is just that. We’re going to be OK.”

Rafael Palmeiro led off the Texas eighth with a tiebreaking homer and the Rangers added another run on a bases-loaded walk.

Anaheim remained three games behind Oakland with four games left, and was four games ahead of Seattle in the wild-card chase. Boston was eliminated from the playoff race after a 7-2 loss at Chicago.

Anaheim pitcher Ramon Ortiz, right, smiles at pitching coach Bud Black, center, during Wednesday's game at the Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. Angels teammates Bengie Molina, front, Troy Glaus, left, and David Eckstein, back right, look on. Black is a former Kansas City Royals pitcher.

Palmeiro’s 43rd homer came against Scott Schoeneweis (9-8) and made it 3-2. Schoeneweis had just entered the game and didn’t face another batter.

“I was just trying to get on base, get something started,” said Palmeiro, who has 490 career homers.

Rookie Hank Blalock and Alex Rodriguez hit consecutive homers off Ramon Ortiz to put Texas ahead 2-0 in the third. Rodriguez leads the majors with 57 homers and 140 RBIs.

Rodriguez and Palmeiro also became only the fifth set of teammates to combine for 100 homers. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees have the most combined homers, 115 in 1961.

Rudy Seanez (1-3) pitched the eighth for the win. Francisco Cordero worked the ninth for his 10th save, giving up Brad Fullmer’s RBI single that ended his stretch of 20 scoreless innings in 20 appearances.

White Sox 7, Red Sox 2

Chicago Boston was eliminated from the AL wild-card race as Joe Crede hit a three-run homer off Derek Lowe to lead Chicago.

The Red Sox (91-67) needed to win their final five games and have Anaheim lose its last five to set up a playoff for the wild card.

Lowe (21-8) gave up a single to Frank Thomas and a walk to Jeff Liefer in the fourth, then Crede hit the next pitch into the left-field bullpen for his 12th homer and a 4-0 lead.

Mariners 3, Athletics 2

Seattle Mike Cameron hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning and Seattle once again rallied to stave off elimination.

Cameron hit his 24th homer with one out after a single by Bret Boone off Jim Mecir (6-4).

Arthur Rhodes (10-4) got the victory, with Kazuhiro Sasaki getting two outs for his 37th save in 44 opportunities.

Twins 7, Indians 5, 12 innings

Minneapolis David Ortiz hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 12th inning to lift Minnesota.

Torii Hunter, who went 3-for-5 and snapped an 0-for-19 slump, singled off David Maurer (0-1) with one out. Ortiz, who was hit by a pitch in the second inning, sparking a beanball exchange, followed with a drive over Coco Crisp in center.

J.C. Romero (9-2), who came in to face slugger Jim Thome in the 11th, retired all four batters he faced for the win.

Yankees 4, Devil Rays 3

New York Alfonso Soriano hit a tiebreaking double and Mariano Rivera got his first save in more than a month.

Roger Clemens recovered from a rocky start to retire 14 of his final 15 batters in his final tuneup for the playoffs and Jeff Weaver (11-11) pitched three scoreless innings for the victory, his first ever in relief.

Soriano doubled twice off Tanyon Sturtze (4-18) but remained stuck on 39 homers.

Blue Jays 3, Orioles 2

Toronto Vernon Wells homered to reach 100 RBIs and Toronto sent Baltimore to its eighth loss in a row.

Wells’ 23rd homer made the 23-year-old outfielder the youngest Toronto player to drive in 100 runs.

Former NBA player Mark Hendrickson (3-0) won his third straight start.

Baltimore rookie Rodrigo Lopez (15-9) allowed three runs on seven hits in seven innings.