If the Bash Brothers have an initiation ritual, Matt Stairs might have passed it.
Stairs homered twice Wednesday night as the Oakland Athletics snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 7-4 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.Jose Canseco also hit two homers and fellow Bash Brother Mark McGwire hit his 13th homer as the A's hit five homers in a game for the first time this season.
Canseco and McGwire hit consecutive solo homers in the third inning, the 10th career time they've gone back-to-back. In the fourth, Canseco followed Stairs' two-run blast with his eighth homer of the season.
Stairs added a solo shot in the seventh, his fifth, for his first career multihomer game.
Rangers 4, Indians 3
At Arlington, Bill Ripken's bases-loaded sacrifice fly scored Will Clark with one out in the 10th.
Mariners 9, White Sox 7
At Seattle, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his major league-leading 17th home run and Brent Gates hit a three-run homer during the Mariners' five-run fourth against Jaime Navarro (3-2).
Royals 6, Red Sox 2
At Kansas City, Boston lost its sixth straight game after the Royals rallied for four runs in the seventh.
Yankees 6, Twins 5
At Minneapolis, Paul O'Neill tied the score with an RBI double in the ninth, then homered in the 12th off Eddie Guardado (0-1).
Blue Jays 7, Tigers 2
Charlie O'Brien hit his first career grand slam and drove in six runs for Toronto at Detroit.
Angels 6, Orioles 5
Darin Erstad, Garret Anderson and Jim Edmonds hit two-run homers in consecutive innings as Anaheim rallied from a 5-0 deficit to defeat visiting Baltimore.
National League
Pirates 15, Rockies 10
If the Pittsburgh Pirates play more exciting games like this, they won't need gimmicks to bring in fans.
The Pirates, who recently held a promotion where players greeted fans at stadium turnstiles in an effort to woo them back, used a nine-run eighth inning Wednesday night to rally past Colorado 15-10 and stay in first place in the NL Central.
This young Pittsburgh team, with a payroll of just $9 million, or $2 million less than Albert Belle is making this season, overcame leads of 6-3, 7-5 and 9-6 before Kevin Young's two-run pinch double put them ahead for good. Al Martin then finished off the Rockies with a grand slam to cap their most dramatic rally since their division title years earlier this decade.
Expos 9, Padres 7
Rondell White hit a go-ahead RBI double in the eighth inning as host Montreal topped San Diego in a game that saw the Padres have two pitchers ejected for hitting batters.
Dodgers 6, Cubs 4
Nelson Liriano doubled to start a game-tying rally in the eighth, then hit a two-run homer in the ninth as Los Angeles won at Chicago.
Cardinals 12, Phillies 3
Ray Lankford had three hits, including a two-run homer, and pinch-hitter Gary Gaetti doubled home two runs in a three-run fifth inning as St. Louis won at Philadelphia.
Astros 1, Mets 0
Darryl Kile (3-2) pitched four-hit ball for eight innings, and pinch-hitter Craig Biggio hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth as Houston won at Shea Stadium.
Marlins 4, Braves 3
Edgar Renteria's RBI single scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning as visiting Florida denied Denny Neagle's bid to become the NL's first seven-game winner with a win over Atlanta.
Giants 4, Reds 2
In Cincinnati, Barry Bonds hit a solo homer in the 10th inning as San Francisco overcame a rare failure by Rod Beck.