European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July stars and stripes Page 37 time for a break tigers red sox not As Allstar break begins the associated press Detroit the Detroit tigers and Boston red sox Are streaking into the Allstar break in dramatically different direct Gary Carlos Guillen and Marcus thames homered off Daisuke and the tigers beat the Boston red sox 65 sunday for a three game the tigers enter the break after winning five straight and 14 of moving a game ahead of Cleveland in the Al the red sox were a sea so High 22 games Over on june 24 but have lost eight of 13 which still has a 10game Lead on the new York Yankees and Toronto in the Al has also lost six straight Road in not manager Terry Francona Matsuzaka 106 allowed six runs and 10 hits in five which equated his shortest Start in his first major league he had Given up just two runs in his previous four starts and haunt lost since june the prob Lem was with my Matsuzaka said through an i Felt i left a lot of my pitches in soft Loca Nate Robertson 56 allowed four runs and four hits in 6vs in Boston scored two runs in the third off him on three a hit Batter and a sacrifice Jose Capellan got four Zach Miner got the final out of the eighth and Todd Jones earned his 22nd Boston scored twice in the seventh and once in the eighth to pull within with runners on first and third in the ninth against Drew fouled out to end the Sheffield hit his 21st Homer in the first inning and Guillent 14th followed thames drive Over the Centerfield Wall in the a shot estimated at 440 i Haven seen any go out there like manager Jim Leyland Duane Detroit Gary Sheffield lines a double to left in the fourth inning on driving in a run in a 65 Victory Over the Boston red when he hits them up like it reminds me of Mark mag to be Detroit committed a sea so High five errors but Center fielder Curtis Granderson turned in a sensational grander son sprinted to his leaped and snagged a Ball with his left Arm Over the Wall to Rob wily to Pena of a Homer in the if that not a web Ive never seen Leyland nobody makes a better play than Yankees Angels 0 Alex Hideki Matsui and Robinson Cano hit three run Hom ers and Host new York battered Ervin Santana 510 for nine runs and seven hits in three in Rodriguez hit his major league leading 30th Homer and drove in four runs to Back Chinming Wang who threw 6vs scoreless innings for his sixth straight White sox twins 3 Rob Jim Thome and Paul Konerko homered during a five run third inning to help Javier Vazquez 65 win his third straight Start for Host All three White sox homers came off Carlos Silva royals Devil rays 4 Light hitting Tony Pena drove in four runs and Jorge de la Rosa 79 won his third consecutive sending visiting Tampa Bay to its 13th loss in 14 Scott Kazmir 56 gave up five runs four earned and seven he struck put four and lasted Only five once again struggling with High pitch rangers orioles 1 Kenny Lofton hit a tie breaking Homer and Kevin Millwood 67 won for the fourth time in five Host Texas won two of three in the series and improved to 601 in its last seven Lofton was 2for2 with two walks and scored both his sixth Homer of the sea son was a two out shot in the sixth Duane Detroit Center fielder Curtis Granderson robs Bostons wily to Pena of a Home run in the fourth inning of sundays the tigers won off Daniel Cabrera 610 that snapped a 11 mariners athletics 3 at Jason Ellison started a four run rally and then touched off a Benche Clearing shoving match that led to the ejections of athletics starter Joe Blan ton 85 and mariners Pitcher Miguel after a relay throw got by As Catcher Jason backing up the shoved the mariners Ichiro Suzuki out of the Way to get the Loose Suzuki had just scored on the Ellison apparently took exception to the shove and the benches Sean Green 21 won it with scoreless innings of Rios ninth inning single settles Tower Byrd Duel the associated press Rios is headed to san Francisco on a High Rios hit an rib single in the ninth inning to give Toronto a 10 Victory Over deciding a pitchers Duel Between Toronto Josh towers and Cleveland Paul that a perfect Way to Send him off to the Allstar Blue jays manager John Gibbons said of who also was slated to compete in monday nights Home run Derby in san fran Reed Johnson hit a on out Dou ble in the chasing Rafael Betancourt came on to face who lined a pitch up the it feels Good to end the first half of the season with a said who is batting and leads Toronto with 17 homers and 53 Byrd 74 allowed four struck out two and walked none in his longest Outing of the he was upset with himself for a defensive miscommunication that led to Johnsons double Down the first base Byrd didst realize that first baseman Victor Martinez was guarding against the bunt and playing level with the rather than behind the in extremely Byrd with him i would never throw a Cut fastball off the plate because the Only thing he Johnson can do with that is shoot it to the right Side of the i thought Vic was playing i made a poor ill think about that All towers retired the first 17 Bat ters he faced before Josh Barfield singled to left in the towers didst realize he haunt allowed a hit until the fourth in when he noticed his team mates were staying away from him in the i knew the Ball was coming put pretty he i was just concentrating on putting up towers struck out four and walked none in eight plus in his longest Start of the sea Hes 20 with a Era in his past three Hes on a Little bit of a Roll right Gibbons the last three starts have been very indians manager Eric wedge said his team looked anxious against we we rent very Good against that for wedge he did a Good Job moving the Ball mixed All his he took it to who also gave up a two out single to Travis Hafner in the was replaced by Scott Downs after Barfield led off the ninth with a broke Bat single to Grady Sizemore tried to and Vance Barfield with a but Downs fielded the bunt and threw to second in time for the Jeremy Accardo 23 came on to face Casey who reached on third baseman John Mcdonalds error to put runners on first and Martinez struck out and Hafner loading the bases for Jhonny Accardo fell behind then struck out Peralta on three the teams combined for 27 runs and 45 hits in the first two games of the but offence was at a Premium Byrd was almost As stingy As the right hander gave up third inning singles to Donald and Royce but escaped by striking out Vernon Wells and after the fourth or fifth in it was kind of apparent that it was going to be a 10 Byrd you know you cant walk you know you cant make you try to get a Little Clayton hit double in the but Howie Clark and Mcdonald both popped Paul gave us a great Effort wedge he de served