Sosa belts 597th in setback

Texas' Sammy Sosa connects for a home run - the 597th of his career. Sosa went deep against Tampa Bay on Wednesday night in Kissimmee, Fla.

? Carl Crawford tripled with the bases loaded, and Delmon Young also drove in three runs Wednesday night to lead the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to an 11-8 victory over the Texas Rangers at Disney World.

Sammy Sosa moved closer to becoming the fifth player with 600 career homers, hitting No. 597 in the fourth inning for the Rangers, who led 6-4 before the Devil Rays scored six runs in the fifth – the last three on Crawford’s third triple of the season.

Sosa’s two-run, opposite-field shot off left-hander Casey Fossum (3-3) was his ninth homer of the year and extended his major-league record for most ballparks homered in to 45. Victor Diaz and Mark Teixeira also homered off the Devil Rays starter, who allowed six runs and nine hits in five innings.

Al Reyes pitched the ninth for the Devil Rays, picking up his 12th save in 12 opportunities.

The second night of a three-game series the Devil Rays moved to Disney to step up marketing efforts in the Orlando area drew a crowd of 8,839. That was slightly more than 8,443 for the opener and well above the 8,241 the teams averaged for six dates last season at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.

The loss was the seventh in nine games for the Rangers. Vicente Padilla (1-6) gave up a first-pitch, leadoff homer to Elijah Dukes and was roughed up for eight runs and 12 hits in four-plus innings.

The speedy Crawford’s triple to right-center off A.J. Murray made it 10-6. He’s now 2-for-2 with a walk and eight RBIs with the bases loaded this season, including his first career grand slam. Young had a two-run single off Padilla in the fourth and finished the Rangers’ starter with an RBI single in the fifth. B.J. Upton drove in a run in the fourth on a force play, then drew a bases-loaded walk from Murray in the fifth.

Angels 5, Mariners 0

Seattle – John Lackey handcuffed Seattle for six innings. Lackey (6-3) was overpowering, retiring 14 straight batters after Ichiro Suzuki lined his first pitch into center field for a single. The streak was finally broken in the fifth, but the ball didn’t get out of the infield. Kenji Johjima lined an 0-1 pitch back up the middle and off Lackey’s right heel. The ball bounced to third baseman Chone Figgins, but he had no play on Johjima’s infield single.

White Sox 5-1, Yankees 3-8

Chicago – Chien-Ming Wang allowed six hits and a run over seven innings, and Hideki Matsui drove in four runs as New York beat Chicago to gain a split in a day-night doubleheader.

Wang (2-3) beat Jose Contreras (3-4), who gave up five hits and four runs – two earned – in 62â3 innings on a 46-degree night at U.S. Cellular Field.

In the first game, Chicago rookie lefty John Danks worked out of a couple of tight jams and outpitched veteran Mike Mussina to give the White Sox a 5-3 victory.

Indians 7, Twins 1

Cleveland – C.C. Sabathia pitched eight sharp innings, and Trot Nixon drove in three runs to lead Cleveland over Minnesota. Sabathia (6-1) allowed five hits, struck out five, walked one and hit a batter. Minnesota’s only run came on Nick Punto’s single in the second. The left-hander won his first five decisions before allowing six runs in a loss to Oakland on May 11.

Nixon drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single in the fifth and added a sacrifice fly in the seventh.

Blue Jays 2, Orioles 1

Toronto – A.J. Burnett gave Toronto’s injury-riddled rotation another big boost. Burnett pitched a three-hitter with 10 strikeouts, Troy Glaus singled home the go-ahead run, and the Blue Jays beat Baltimore for their first three-game sweep of the season.

Burnett (4-3) walked two in his 17th career complete game and first since Sept. 2 at Boston. He also struck out 10 in his previous start, a 5-1 victory over Tampa Bay that ended Toronto’s nine-game losing streak. It was the first time this year he has won consecutive starts.