New York ? Ramon Ortiz was lights out at Yankee Stadium.

With the main scoreboards blackened by a power problem, Ortiz pitched four-hit ball for eight stellar innings and led the Anaheim Angels over the New York Yankees, 5-0, Friday night.

“I think it is the best game I have thrown in my whole life,” Ortiz said.

Adam Kennedy and Garret Anderson homered and Anaheim took advantage of left fielder Hideki Matsui’s error to win its third in a row. The playoff-contending Angels won for the eighth time in nine road games.

Right after Matsui misplayed a fly ball in the seventh inning, the power on all scoreboards went out, and the public-address and sound effects system went silent. But the stadium lights stayed on, and the game continued without a delay.

“It was a little bit like ‘The Twilight Zone,'” Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez said.

There was no immediate word on what caused the outage, which lasted until the end of the game and also took the Yankees’ YES Network broadcast off the air.

The Con Ed power company said it believed the problem was related to Yankee Stadium. A bevy of electricians and engineers scampered around the ballpark after the game ended.

“I didn’t notice it for a while,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “It was kind of weird. I knew the scoreboard was down.”

“We were keeping score on our card,” he said.

Anaheim's Ramon Ortiz delivers against New York. Ortiz allowed four hits in eight innings, and the Angels defeated the Yankees, 5-0, Friday night in New York.

It made for an odd scene when the top of the seventh ended. Without longtime PA man Bob Sheppard to prompt them, the 53,530 fans did not stand for “God Bless America” or “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” — then again, the songs weren’t played.

Instead, the crowd began chanting “Let’s go, Yankees!” Later, a video board that stayed on posted this sign: “Clap Along Fans!”

“It was strange. We’ve been so used to looking at the scoreboard for counts,” Yankees manager Joe Torre.

Lights in the Yankees’ clubhouse dimmed, and the dugout phone went out. When Torre wanted to a reliever to warm up, he had to wait until someone in the bullpen noticed him waving.

“I was going to send someone on a mission around the ballpark,” he said.

Ortiz (4-7) won for the first time since June 19, a span of seven starts. He made Gary Sheffield and Rodriguez look bad swinging at sharp sliders and escaped his only jam when right fielder Vladimir Guerrero ran down Matsui’s liner with runners at the corners to end the first.

“I was a little scared when the guy hit the ball, but Vlad made a good catch,” Ortiz said.

Ortiz struck out six and walked two. He was pulled three outs shy of his second career shutout — he pitched five-hitter against Baltimore in 2002.

Twins 5, Indians 1

Minneapolis — Kyle Lohse pitched three-hit ball for seven stellar innings, Corey Koskie homered and Minnesota beat Cleveland. Minnesota moved five games ahead of second-place Cleveland in the AL Central by sending the Indians to their fifth straight loss. The Twins have won four of five during that span.

Lohse (6-10) walked one and struck out four against the second-highest scoring team in the majors. He has struggled for most of the season, particularly against the Indians — he entered 0-3 with a 10.20 ERA against them this year.

Koskie, whose clutch homer last Sunday at Jacobs Field kept the Twins ahead of the Indians in the standings, has been on a tear since, going 10-for-19.

He hit a 422-foot shot in the sixth that bounced off a railing in the upper deck, putting the Twins up 3-1. It was Koskie’s 19th homer of the season.

Athletics 9, Devil Rays 5

St. Petersburg, Fla. — Eric Chavez homered twice and Bobby Crosby went 3-for-5 with a home run to break out of a length slump as AL West-leading Oakland beat Tampa Bay. Crosby had just three hits in 40 at-bats and stopped an 0-for-14 slide with a second-inning double. Chavez homered twice for the 11th time in his career, the second this season, and raised his season total to 23. Adam Melhuse also homered for Oakland, which has 11 homers in the past three games.

Blue Jays 14, Orioles 4

Baltimore — Chris Woodward hit his first career grand slam and Orlando Hudson had three hits, leading Toronto past Baltimore. Eric Hinske also homered for the last-place Blue Jays, who had lost four straight overall and six in a row on the road. Toronto improved to 3-8 under interim manager John Gibbons with its highest-scoring effort since July 1. Woodward’s first homer of the season, off Eddy Rodriguez in the ninth, capped the Blue Jays’ 14-hit outburst against five Baltimore pitchers.

Red Sox 10, White Sox 1

Chicago — Curt Schilling allowed three hits in seven shutout innings for his 15th win and Manny Ramirez hit a grand slam to lead Boston over Chicago. Orlando Cabrera homered and drove in four runs for the streaking Red Sox, who won for the 10th time in 13 games and surged to 16 games over .500. They moved within 71/2 games of the first-place New York Yankees in the AL East.

Tigers 8, Mariners 3

Detroit — Craig Monroe went 4-for-5 with a tiebreaking homer, and Nate Robertson pitched seven solid innings in Detroit’s win over Seattle. Robertson (10-7) allowed two runs, six hits, struck out four and didn’t walk a batter. Esteban Yan gave up Edgar Martinez’s RBI single in the eighth, and Jamie Walker pitched a scoreless ninth.