Morning Wood

Chicago White Sox 7 New York Yankees 6

Neither rain nor Joba Chamberlin could stop Joey Clutch from making his appointed grounders. Crede, who is playing "I'm gonna be a free agent soon" ball this season (and the only player on the team to sport a soul patch that doesn't look like the business end of a cheap lap dance), hit a walk-off single in the ninth, preventing a three-game sweep by the Yankees. "It always seems like [Crede] makes something happen," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "Those guys are about that. We were only one shot away, even though [the Yankees] tied the game. We score a lot or we don't score that many. That's the fun thing about this club." (Yeah, Ozzie, not scoring that many runs... fun fun fun!) The win was dampened by a groin injury to Juan Uribe, who had to leave the game in the 6th inning and is scratched for Sunday. Meanwhile, Jim Thome hit his 513th career home run, moving him into sole possession of 19th place on the all-time list ahead of Mr. Cub himself, Ernie Banks.

Colorado Rockies 4 Chicago Cubs 2

Rockies' Aaron Cook pitched eight innings - and Brian Fuentes got his first save in ten months - to snap a six-game win streak by the North Siders. It's not like the Cubs lacked opportunities. Down 2-1 in the eighth, they loaded the bases with no outs but could only produce one run to tie. Then in the bottom of the eighth, what should have been a double play to end the inning was muffed by shortstop Ryan Theriot, who overshot second base, giving the Rockies the go-ahead run. "Yeah, you're trying to rush it," Theriot said. "If you don't turn it, they score. You're trying to do it pretty quick. But you have to catch the ball first and see what happens." You got your answer, Ryan: shit happens.

AL

• Detroit 8 Texas 2
• Los Angeles 7 Red Sox 5
• Oakland 11 Minnesota 2
• Cleveland 9 Kansas City 6,
• Cleveland 2, Kansas City 0
• Tampa Bay 5 Toronto 3
• Baltimore 8 Seattle 7

NL

• Houston 5 Cincinnati 3
• Philadelphia 3 Milwaukee 1
• Atlanta 7 Florida 4
• St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 2
• Washington 10 New York 5
• San Francisco 1 San Diego 0
• Arizona 6 Los Angeles 4