Boston ? The Boston Red Sox were stymied by six pitchers and stunned by their worst offense at home in a month.

“It’s definitely very surprising,” Johnny Damon said. “We expect to get hits. We expect to score a lot of runs.”

Instead, baseball’s top-hitting team lost to the Baltimore Orioles, 7-3, Friday night, managing four hits and scoring fewer than seven runs at Fenway for the first time since Aug. 2.

Athletics 12, Yankees 0

Oakland, Calif. – Scott Hatteberg hit a three-run homer, and Bobby Kielty and Jay Payton also connected.

Angels 4, Mariners 1

Anaheim, Calif. – Vladimir Guerrero hit his 300th career homer, his first in almost three weeks.

Indians 6, Twins 1

Minneapolis – C.C. Sabathia won his sixth straight start by scattering three hits over 71â3 innings.

White Sox 9, Tigers 1

Chicago – Carl Everett and Juan Uribe hit three-run homers, and Freddy Garcia won for the first time since July 31 to lead Chicago.

Blue Jays 4, Devil Rays 3

Toronto – Joe Borowski’s wild pitch in the eighth inning allowed the go-ahead run.