By The Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Mariano Rivera became the 18th player to earn 300 saves, and a surging Derek Jeter hit one of the New York Yankees' four homers in a 7-5 victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Friday night.

Javier Vazquez (5-4) pitched six-plus innings for the victory, and Rivera worked a scoreless ninth for his AL-leading 17th save. He became the first Yankee to record 300 in his career, and is the fourth pitcher to get 300 with one team, joining Trevor Hoffman, Dennis Eckersley and Jeff Montgomery.

Jeter continued his climb out of a season-long slump with three hits for the third straight game.

The win put the Yankees a season-best 11 games over .500 at 29-18.

Gary Sheffield, Hideki Matsui and Ruben Sierra also homered.

Sierra's two-run homer off Doug Waechter (2-5) in the fourth wiped out a 2-0 deficit.

Blue Jays 5, Rangers 4

TORONTO - Carlos Delgado hit a two-run homer in a four-run first, and Ted Lilly worked six innings for just the second time this season to lead Toronto to its fourth straight win.

Rod Barajas homered and tied a career high with four RBIs for the Rangers.

Barajas ended Texas' streak of 19 consecutive scoreless inning with a sacrifice fly in the second.

Lilly (3-2) won for the first time in five starts, allowing one run on six hits, while striking out four and walking a season-high five.

Rookie Jason Frasor pitched the ninth for his third save.

R.A. Dickey (4-5) lost his fourth straight start.

Indians 1, Athletics 0

CLEVELAND - Casey Blake hit the third pitch by reliever Jim Mecir into the left-field bleachers to give Cleveland the victory.

Blake lined a 1-1 pitch from Mecir (0-4) for his sixth homer - and second game-winning shot this season at Jacobs Field.

Jose Jimenez (1-3) pitched a scoreless ninth for his first American League win.

Oakland starter Barry Zito pitched eight scoreless innings, allowing three hits and five walks while striking out seven.

The two teams were a combined 1-for-15 with nine strikeouts with runners in scoring position.

Orioles 7, Tigers 5

DETROIT - Miguel Tejada and Luis Matos homered, and the Baltimore Orioles snapped a seven-game losing streak.

B.J. Surhoff went 3-for-5 with an RBI for the Orioles, who bounced back with a win after being outscored 41-17 in a three-game series against the New York Yankees.

The Tigers had 10 hits, a night after tying a team record with 27 in a 17-7 win over the Kansas City Royals.

Baltimore starter Eric Dubose (4-3) allowed three runs and six hits in five-plus innings. He walked five and struck out five.

Jason Johnson (3-6) faced his former team for the first time since leaving as a free agent in the offseason, allowing six runs and eight hits in 4 2-3 innings.

Red Sox 8, Mariners 4

BOSTON - Pedro Martinez remained undefeated against Seattle, and David Ortiz's grand slam capped a five-run fifth inning for Boston.

Manny Ramirez hit his 13th homer for Boston, which has won eight of 10.

Bret Boone and Rich Aurilia each had solo homers for the Mariners.

Martinez (5-3) has won all 13 games he's pitched against the Mariners - he won once in relief - but he gave up four runs Friday night, the most he's allowed against them. Martinez had a 1.00 ERA coming in against Seattle and he never gave up more than two runs.

Martinez's unbeaten mark against Seattle is the best of any active pitcher. Randy Johnson is 12-0 against the Chicago Cubs.

On Friday, Martinez didn't walk a batter and struck out nine.

Boston erased a 4-1 deficit with its five-run fifth off Joel Pineiro (1-6).

Royals 2, Twins 1

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tony Graffanino beat out an infield single to deep short with two out in the ninth, scoring Wilton Guerrero from third and giving Kansas City a victory.

Juan Rincon (6-3) walked Ken Harvey and Joe Randa with one out, then the runners moved up on an infield out by Benito Santiago.

Graffanino, recalled earlier in the day off the disabled list, slid head-first into first ahead of the throw from Cristian Guzman.

Jeremy Affeldt (1-3) got the last three outs for his first win since last Sept. 22.

Twenty-year-old Zack Greinke, the youngest player in the majors, went seven innings and gave up seven hits and only one run in his Royals home debut.

The highly touted right-hander, who also had a no-decision in his major league debut last weekend in Oakland, had two strikeouts and one walk and lowered his ERA to 2.25 in 12 innings.

White Sox 4, Angels 3

CHICAGO - Paul Konerko hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth, giving Chicago its eighth win in 10 games.

Juan Uribe tripled off the center-field wall against Ramon Ortiz (1-4) to start the ninth.

After Frank Thomas was intentionally walked, Carlos Lee fouled out before Jose Valentin was also intentionally walked to load the bases.

Konerko, whose two-run homer in the sixth tied the game at 2, hit a 2-2 pitch to the warning track in right-center to score Uribe.

Shingo Takatsu (3-0) pitched the top of the ninth for the victory in the opener of a three-game series between division leaders.

The Angels have lost four straight, all by one run.