BOSTON -Rob Johnson doubled home two runs in the 11th inning and Seattle beat Boston 7-6 on Friday night.

George Kottaras hit his first major-league homer in the bottom of the 11th for the Red Sox, who tied the game at 5 with two runs in the eighth inning.

Seattles Ronny Cedeno hit a tie-breaking, two-run homer in a three-run fourth, three batters after a fan in the front row snatched a foul pop that third baseman Kevin Youkilis was attempting to make a play on.

Tim Wakefield made his 383rd start for the Red Sox, surpassing Roger Clemens for the top spot on the teams all-time list.

Jose Lopez added a solo homer for Seattle, which won for the 11th time in 16 games.

J.D. Drew hit a solo homer for the Red Sox, who saw their major league-best home record fall to 25-11.

Chris Jakubauskas (5-5) pitched two hitless innings for the win and Mark Lowe, despite giving up the homer to Kottaras, earned his first save.

Yankees 4, Blue Jays 2

NEW YORK – A.J. Burnett scattered six hits over seven innings and Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez homered for New York.

The Yankees rebounded from Thursday nights 8-4 loss to Seattle for their eighth win in nine games.

Burnett (7-4), who lost to his former team at Toronto on May 12, allowed two runs, struck out seven and walked two. Mariano Rivera struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 21st save in 22 chances.

Brian Tallet (5-6) gave up three runs – two earned – six hits and four walks in six innings, forcing in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded walk to Mark Teixeira in the fifth.

That was the third walk of the inning for the Yankees, who made it 3-1 on a passed ball by Raul Chavez.

Vernon Wells, who entered in a 2-for-19 slide, homered in the sixth to pull the Blue Jays to 3-2.

Indians 15, Athletics 3

CLEVELAND – Shin-Soo Choo homered twice and drove in a career-high seven runs and Cleveland snapped a five-game losing streak.

Choo had an RBI single, two-run double, three-run homer and capped his night with a solo shot, his 12th. It was Choos second career multihomer game and the most RBIs by a Cleveland player since Grady Sizemore drove in seven last Aug. 21 against Kansas City.

Cleveland, with the worst record in the AL at 32-49, won for only the third time in 16 games. Asdrubal Cabrera had three RBIs in the Indians biggest output since a 22-4 win at Yankee Stadium on April 18. They scored 13 runs and batted .195 during their five-game losing skid.

David Huff (4-3) gave up five doubles, but only three runs over six innings to improve to 4-1 in his last six starts.

Oakland opened a nine-game trip by losing for the seventh time in nine games as rookie Trevor Cahill (5-7) gave up five earned runs over 3 2-3 innings.

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