No one in baseball worked harder on Labor Day than Mike Greenwell.

Greenwell set a major league record Monday night by driving in all nine Boston runs in the Red Sox's 9-8 win over the Seattle Mariners."He had a career night," Seattle manager Lou Piniella said. "That's a week's work. That's two weeks' work."

Greenwell had four of Boston's seven hits. He hit a two-run homer, a grand slam, a two-run double and a single in the 10th inning that brought home the winning run.

By driving in all of his team's runs, Greenwell broke the record of eight RBIs shared by George Kelly of the New York Giants (1924) and Bob Johnson of the Philadelphia Athletics (1938).

After missing nearly two months of the season with a broken ring finger, and being bothered by a back injury for most of the year, Greenwell was delighted with his performance.

"It was a storybook night," Greenwell said.

Seattle's Alex Rodriguez, 21, became the third-youngest player to hit 35 home runs in a season with a seventh-inning home run. The AL's batting leader (.375) also grounded into a game-ending double play.

"It was Greenwell 9 and the Mariners 8," Rodriguez said.

Yankees 5, Athletics 0

At Oakland, Calif., David Cone's remarkable comeback was dramatic - and nearly historic.

Cone, pitching for New York for the first time since an aneurysm was removed from his right shoulder, pitched seven hitless innings. His chance to join Mariano Rivera on the first combined no-hitter since 1991 was ruined when Jose Herrera beat out an infield single with one out in the ninth.

Cone, who made his last start on May 2, struck out six and walked three before being removed after 85 pitches. Cone (5-1) had been on a 100-pitch limit, but allowed two hard-hit balls in the seventh.

Orioles 12, Angels 8

Todd Zeile, acquired last week in a trade from Philadelphia, hit his first two home runs for Baltimore at Anaheim, Calif.

Baltimore, which got five homers, moved into a virtual tie with Chicago for the AL wild-card spot, and remained four games back of first-place New York in the AL East.

Royals 2, Blue Jays 0

At Toronto, Tim Belcher pitched a four-hitter in the quickest game in the majors this year.

Belcher (13-8) gave up four two-out singles, including consecutive ninth-inning hits before he got John Olerud to fly out to center, ending the game in 1 hour, 53 minutes.

Tigers 8, White Sox 6

At Chicago, Travis Fryman hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth and Detroit stopped Chicago's four-game winning streak.

Brad Ausmus appeared to beat left fielder Tony Phillips' throw to the plate with one out in the ninth, but was called out. Fryman then hit a 3-2 pitch from Roberto Hernandez (6-2) for his 22nd homer.

Brewers 7, Indians 6

At Milwaukee, Jose Valentin singled home John Jaha with two outs in the ninth.

Trailing 6-5 in the ninth, Jeff Cirillo singled with one out off Jose Mesa (2-5) and was erased on a fielder's choice. Pinch-runner David Hulse stole second, took third on Jaha's infield single and scored on a wild pitch by Mesa.

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Jaha went to second on the wild pitch and scored on Valentin's looping liner to left.

Twins 6, Rangers 4

At Arlington, Texas, Chuck Knoblauch homered to lead off the game for the second straight day for Minnesota.

Knoblauch, who hit his 12th homer in the first inning against Ken Hill (14-8), is batting .595 (22-for-38) against Texas this season.

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