Chicago ? Mark Buehrle has been one of baseball’s most efficient pitchers the last five seasons, so his latest performance for the Chicago White Sox was easy enough to describe.

“Just Buehrle,” manager Ozzie Guillen said Wednesday after his unheralded lefty won his sixth straight decision, combining with two relievers to shut out the Texas Rangers, 7-0.

Just Buehrle would mean another outing of working quickly, throwing strikes and conserving energy.

“When he’s on, he can do what he did today — get a lot of groundballs, get some popups, change speeds well, throw strikes and work fast. He’s the ideal pitcher,” said White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski, who homered in his fourth straight game.

“Him following (Jon) Garland, that’s pretty good.”

Buehrle became the third seven-game winner in the major leagues, joining teammate Garland (8-0), who beat the Rangers on Tuesday night, and Florida’s Dontrelle Willis.

“When you’re matching up with Buehrle, runs are going to be tight,” Texas manager Buck Showalter said. “You look at the hit totals, there wasn’t that much difference. They made a lot more use of theirs. We had a couple of opportunities.”

Buehrle (7-1) allowed nine hits over 71/3 innings and got out of two early jams to run his career record against Texas to 7-0. He walked none and struck out two, leaving to a standing ovation after giving up two singles in the eighth.

“I had chills, and I had goosebumps. As soon as Ozzie came out of the dugout, the crowd started going crazy,” Buehrle said.

If a small crowd of 16,255 made that kind of noise, wait two days until the White Sox go to Wrigley Field. They will take a major-league-best 29-12 record into Friday’s interleague opener with the Cubs in a series that promises to be wild and emotional.

Chicago's Mark Buehrle delivers against Texas. Buehrle pitched 71/3 scoreless innings, and the White Sox blanked the Rangers, 7-0, Wednesday in Chicago.

They’re hoping Pierzynski can continue his surprising power surge and that their offense will get a lift from slumping run producers Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko, who each had three hits Wednesday.

Dye had three doubles, including one with the bases loaded, and Konerko hit his 10th homer.

“We won a lot of games without a lot of hitting early in the year,” Konerko said. “We’re going to look at it in a positive way and say that’s when they should have gotten us.”

Dye, in a 5-for-30 skid in his previous eight games and batting just .200 coming in, hit a two-run double with the bases loaded in the fourth. After Carl Everett was walked intentionally, Juan Uribe delivered a two-run single off Ryan Drese (3-4) for a 4-0 lead.

Tigers 6, Devil Rays 4

Detroit — Dmitri Young homered, and Omar Infante drove in two runs as Detroit beat Tampa Bay. The Devil Rays made three errors, leading to four unearned runs, in their fourth straight loss.

Wil Ledezma (2-3) won for the first time since April 9, a span of five starts, despite giving up four runs and five hits in five innings. He walked two and struck out a career-best seven.

Three Tigers relievers finished, with Ugueth Urbina pitching a perfect ninth for his fifth save. Doug Waechter (1-3) lasted just 21/3 innings, yielding six runs — two earned — and seven hits. He also committed two of the errors.

Twins 3, Blue Jays 2

Minneapolis — Jacque Jones and Michael Cuddyer homered to lift Minnesota over Toronto. Cuddyer was 3-for-3, extending his strong hitting in May, and Kyle Lohse scattered seven hits over six innings to give the Twins their second victory by a starting pitcher in the last nine games.

Dave Bush (0-4) rebounded from a rough outing against hapless Kansas City, giving up seven hits and tying a season high with five strikeouts in a complete game.

Athletics 13, Red Sox 6

Oakland, Calif. — Eric Chavez hit a three-run homer, David Wells flopped in his first start in three weeks, and Oakland routed Boston. Seth Etherton (1-0), called up from Triple-A Sacramento on Sunday to make his first major-league appearance since 2003, pitched 71/3 strong innings a day before his wife was scheduled to deliver their first child — and an Oakland starting pitcher received plenty of run support for a change.

Mariners 7, Yankees 6

Seattle — New York committed three errors, the final one leading to the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, and its 10-game winning streak was snapped by Seattle. Miguel Olivo’s first hit of the series scored Jeremy Reed with two outs in the eighth, preventing the Yankees from their first 11-game winning streak in nearly 20 years.

The Yankees loaded the bases in the ninth, but Ron Villone struck out Jason Giambi on three pitches for the final out and his first save since 1999, when he pitched for Cincinnati.

Angels 2, Indians 1

Cleveland — Bartolo Colon pitched eight strong innings, and Los Angeles rallied for two runs in the ninth off Jake Westbrook. Colon (5-3) allowed just four hits, but appeared to be on his way to a tough loss before the Angels finally figured out Westbrook (1-7), who took a two-hitter into the ninth.