Rangers rookie stifles Sox

Error-prone Chicago loses for 10th time in last 15 games

? Rookie Juan Dominguez allowed seven hits in eight innings, and Mark Teixeira had three hits and two RBIs to lead the Texas Rangers over the Chicago White Sox 7-5 Monday night.

Dominguez (2-3) gave up two runs, struck out three and walked two in his 11th major league start.

Mark DeRosa and Kevin Mench homered for the Rangers, who have won five of seven on their 10-game homestand after a 1-12 trip that dropped them from contention.

Geoff Blum homered for the AL Central leaders, who have lost 10 of their last 15 and are 0-3 at Texas this year, getting outscored 25-8.

Chicago made four errors, matching its season high, three by second baseman Tadahito Iguchi. The three errors by Iguchi were the most by a White Sox player since shortstop Jose Valentin had four at Oakland on April 8, 2000.

Mark Buerhle (14-7) gave up seven runs – four earned – and nine hits in seven innings. He came in 7-0 with a 2.21 ERA in 10 career appearances against Texas. Down 7-2, Chicago closed in the ninth off Steve Karsay on Juan Uribe’s RBI single, Scott Podsednik’s run-scoring grounder and Iguchi’s RBI single.

With on one, Doug Brocail retired Carl Everett on a groundout for his first save since Aug. 17 last year against Cleveland.

Texas opened the first with three straight hits, including Michael Young’s RBI double, and Alfonso Soriano added a sacrifice.

Chicago's Mark Buehrle wipes his face after giving up a home run to Texas' Mark DeRosa in the second inning of Monday's game in Arlington, Texas.

DeRosa’s fifth homer, a two-out drive off the top of the right-field fence in the second, made it 3-0. DeRosa added an RBI double in the fourth, and Mark Teixeira had a two-run single made it 6-0. Teixeira has 101 RBIs, becoming the fifth Texas player to reach 100 in consecutive seasons.

Iguchi dropped Phil Nevin’s popup and a dropped throw from Uribe at shortstop on Young’s grounder, making all three runs unearned.

Blum hit a two-run homer in the fifth, ending a 22-inning scoreless streak by Texas starters. It was the first AL homer for Blum, acquired from San Diego on July 31.

Indians 10, Tigers 8

Cleveland – Jhonny Peralta, Coco Crisp and Ben Broussard drove in two runs apiece as Cleveland overcame a five-run deficit in the first inning by scoring six times in its first at-bat.

The Indians improved to a major league-best 19-7 in August. After finishing April at only 9-14 and in fourth place in its division, Cleveland has moved into a small group of teams chasing the AL wild card.

Yankees 7, Mariners 4

Seattle – Jason Giambi hit two homers for the second straight game.

His three-run drive in the sixth off Matt Thornton (0-4) overcome a 4-2 deficit as New York won its fifth straight, winning for the eighth time this season after trailing by four runs.

Starting a seven-game trip following a 6-1 homestand, New York (74-56) moved a season-high 18 games over .500, remained 1 1â2 games behind AL East-leading Boston and opened a one-game lead in the AL wild-card race.

Red Sox 10, Devil Rays 6

Boston – David Ortiz homered twice, giving him four in the past three games, and Johnny Damon hit his first leadoff homer since Boston’s World Series clincher.

Matt Clement (12-3) won for the second time in eight starts since his All-Star game appearance. Clement allowed one run on three hits in five-plus innings, walking two and striking out three.

It was the 11th consecutive home game in which the Red Sox scored seven runs or more, but only a few thousand fans were around at the end thanks to a rain delay of 1 hour, 43 minutes.