Shaun Marcum pitched a one-hitter, allowing only a home run to Conor Jackson leading off the seventh inning, while Jose Bautista hit his majors-best 37th home run to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-1 win over Oakland Athletics Monday night. The A's were held hitless late for the second straight day. Minnesota's Kevin Slowey didn't allow a hit through seven innings Sunday before being pulled. Oakland got its first hit with one out in the eighth against Jon Rauch. Marcum (11-6) missed most of last season after undergoing surgery on Sept. 30, 2008. He faced only two batters over the minimum before Jackson's home run, then finished for his first career complete game. Rays 6, Rangers 4: At St. Petersburg, Carlos Pena hit a tiebreaking single during a four-run eighth inning as Tampa Bay rallied to beat Texas and move into a share of first-place with the Yankees in the AL East. Lee outlasted David Price in a marquee matchup of All-Star aces and was given a late lead when Texas scored twice in the top of the eighth to go up 4-2. But Carl Crawford hit a run-scoring grounder and Evan Longoria tied it with a single before Pena, just off the disabled list, made it 5-4. Ben Zobrist added an RBI single that chased Lee (10-6). The left-hander allowed six runs, nine hits and one walk while striking out 10 over 7 2-3 innings. He has lost all three of his starts against Tampa Bay this season. Price got a no-decision in his bid to become the AL's first 16-game winner, giving up two runs and five hits in six-plus innings. The hard-throwing lefty struck out eight and walked five. Lance Cormier (4-3) got the final out in the eighth before Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his 34th save. Tigers 3, Yankees 1: At New York, Detroit's Max Scherzer pitched two-hit ball for six shutout innings and shaky closer Jose Valverde got Derek Jeter to ground into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded. The Tigers took a 3-0 lead into the ninth. The Yankees were close to being shut out in consecutive games for the first time since 1999. Valverde held on for his 23rd consecutive save. The highest-scoring team in the majors managed only six hits overall against Scherzer (8-9) and three relievers. Not since May 1999, when the Anaheim Angels stopped them, have the Yankees been blanked in consecutive games. Ryan Raburn hit a two-run homer in the second off Javier Vazquez (9-9). Miguel Cabrera hit his 28th home run in the ninth off Joba Chamberlain. Orioles 5, Mariners 4, 11 innings: At Baltimore, Nick Markakis led off the 11th inning with a double and scored on a two-out bunt by Adam Jones as the Orioles narrowly won. Markakis doubled off Sean White (0-1) and advanced on a groundout. After another groundout against a drawn-in infield, Jones dropped a bunt down the third-base line that Jose Lopez failed to snare with his bare hand as Markakis sprinted home. Matt Albers (5-3) worked the 11th to get the win. It was the 21st time this season that Seattle lost on its opponent's final at-bat, the 10th in walkoff fashion. Rookie Adam Moore, who had his first four-hit game, Russell Branyan and Lopez homered for the Mariners. Moore came in batting .159 and had never had more than two hits in any of his previous 34 games in the majors.
