Left-hander Ted Lilly tossed a three-hit shutout

The game was played before a crowd of 60,021, the biggest in the major league this season.

In Los Angeles, Shawn Green belted his 22nd homer of the year to guide the Dodgers to a 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

In San Francisco, 30-year-old rookie right-hander Travis Driskill took his record to 5-0 as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Giants 4-2.

In Montreal, the Expos's eight-game winning streak was snapped by the Cleveland Indians, who rode the right arm of Bartolo Colon to a 5-4 victory.

Colon (10-4) worked eight innings, scattering nine hits, then watched while reliever Bob Wickman nearly gave it away in the ninth.

Bartolo Colon played a key role for the Indians

In Philadelphia, the Minnesota Twins saved their best for last, getting three runs in the 11th to defeat the Phillies 4-1.

In Milwaukee, the Anaheim Angels recorded runs in six of the first seven innings to beat the Brewers 8-2.

In New York, Raul Ibanez knocked in four runs to send Kansas City to a 5-1 win over the Mets and to snap the Royals's eight-game losing streak.

In Cincinnati, the Oakland Athletics made it 14 wins in 15 games with a 10-3 rout of the slumping Reds.

In Denver, the Colorado Rockies strung together three consecutive homers to get on the board and a single in the 11th inning give them a narrow 6-5 win over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

Saturday's MLB results

National League

St Louis at CHICAGO CUBS (POSTPONED)

Interleague matches

LOS ANGELES 5-4 Boston
NY Yankees 1-0 SAN DIEGO
Baltimore 4-2 SAN FRANCISCO
Kansas City 5-1 NY METS
Oakland 10-3 CINCINNATI
Texas 3-2 PITTSBURGH
Cleveland 5-4 MONTREAL
ATLANTA 15-2 Chicago White Sox
FLORIDA 5-4 Detroit
Anaheim 8-2 MILWAUKEE
Minnesota 4-1 PHILADELPHIA (11 INNINGS)
Toronto 6-3 ARIZONA
COLORADO 6-5 Tampa Bay (11 INNINGS)
HOUSTON 3-2 Seattle (12 INNINGS)

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