The Angels win their 8th straight game, defeating the Royals, 5 – 2, completing a four-game sweep. The Royals have a 2 – 0 lead in the 7th, but the Angels score three times in the bottom of the frame, highlighted by Josh Hamilton’s home run, and tack on a pair of insurance runs in the 8th. Jerome Williams is the winner over Wade Davis.

The Rangers pull a fast one in the 2nd inning of their 9 – 5 win over the Mariners. In his first major league at-bat, Jesus Sucre hits a ground ball to first. 1B Mitch Moreland relays to SS Elvis Andrus to retire Justin Smoak for one out, and Andrus throws back to first, but P Justin Grimm crosses in front of Moreland and catches the ball, well away from first base, and walks away as if nothing particular has taken place. The umpires are fooled though, and call Sucre out for a double play. Umpire Jeff Nelson will later admit his mistake, explaining that “the pitcher came out of nowhere” to make the catch. He’s not the only one fooled by Grimm’s great acting job, as on-deck hitter Brendan Ryan says he also missed it, and Mariners manager Eric Wedge comes out to argue – but only that Moreland’s foot was off the bag!

Just 10 days after coming back from a broken arm sustained in spring training, Yankees OF Curtis Granderson breaks a bone in his hand when hit by a pitch by Tampa Bay’s Cesar Ramos in the 5th inning. He will be out for another month. The Yankees still win the game, 9 – 4.

Anibal Sanchez throws no-hit ball until the 9th inning, when Joe Mauer breaks up his bid for a no-no with a one-out single to center. He strikes out the final two hitters but has to settle for a one-hit shutout as Detroit beats Minnesota, 6 – 0, the Twins’ 10th straight loss. Miguel Cabrera’s streak of four straight games with a homer ends, but he has two more RBI as he pursues his bid for another Triple Crown.

The Indians trounce Boston, 12 – 3, in a game that marks Terry Francona’s return to Fenway Park, where he last managed in 2011. Drew Stubbs, Mark Reynolds and Michael Bourn combine for 9 hits and 8 RBIs to lead the Tribe’s offence.

The Angels hit four home runs – by Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Chris Iannetta and Mark Trumbo – as they defeat Kansas City, 5 – 4, for their fifth straight win. Joe Blanton wins for the first time this season after seven straight losses, while Robert Coello picks up his first career save after closer Ernesto Frieri falters by giving up two runs in the 9th.

Known for his tape-measure blasts, Miguel Cabrera gets some help from Indians CF Michael Bourn in knocking one out in the 8th, as Bourn is about to make the catch at the warning track when the ball bounces off his glove and into the stands for a home run. Detroit wins, 11 – 7. The game is delayed by rain for over an hour in the 5th inning, but Justin Verlander still returns to record the final two outs of the frame, thus qualifying for the win; there is another 48-minute delay in the 8th but the game is played to its conclusion.

Cliff Lee flashes his old form in tossing a three-hit shutout as the Phillies defeat the Marlins, 3 – 0. Delmon Young hits a homer in support of what will be the last shutout of Cliff’s career.

On the other end of the success scale, Dusty Robinson goes 0 for 8 with 7 strikeouts for the Stockton Ports of the California League in his team’s 11 – 9 win over the Lake Elsinore Storm. Pitcher Wade Kirkland hits a walk-off two-run homer to end the game. Robinson is the first player to strike out seven times in a game since Russ Laribee did so in the longest game in Organized Baseball history on April 18, 1981; Laribee needed 12 plate appearances over 33 innings to accumulate all of those Ks, however.