The ERA (5.04) may not be much to look at, but Indians closer Joe Borowski keeps piling up the saves. Borowski closed out the Indians’ sweep of the Tigers Wednesday with his AL-leading 42nd save. Borowski had saves in each of the three games.
Mets third baseman David Wright passed the 100-RBI mark for the third straight season, driving in three in the Mets’ 8-4 win over Washington. Wright had a pair of hits, including his 38th double, as the Mets snapped a five-game losing streak.
Andy Pettitte kept the heat on the Red Sox. The left-hander pitched 7 2/3 innings, allowing just one run to pick up his 200th career win as the Yankees edged Baltimore 2-1. New York moved to within 1 1/2 games of first place, the closest since April 20.
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Jonathan Papelbon tried to keep the Red Sox in the game against Toronto, but gave up an eighth-inning grand slam to Russ Adams as the Jays beat the Red Sox 6-1 and swept Boston for the first time since May 2005. Boston has lost four in a row.
Magglio Ordonez is having an MVP-caliber season, but not Wednesday. The Tigers right fielder went 0-for-4 with a strikeout and stranded four runners in a 4-2 loss to Cleveland. The strikeout came in the eighth inning with runners on first and second.
It wasn’t the same magnitude of Albert Pujols’ home run in 2005, but Houston’s Brad Lidge gave up a game-tying two-run home run to Milwaukee’s Rickie Weeks after the Astros took the lead in the bottom of the eighth. Houston rallied for a 5-4 win.
