BOSTON - The Minnesota Twins didn't have the best bullpen in baseball Friday night. They just had the best one at Fenway Park.
Matthew LeCroy homered twice and Dustan Mohr had a home run and a career-high four RBIs as the Twins matched Boston's six-run inning with one of their own and beat the Red Sox 11-7.
"We came back and picked the bullpen up," LeCroy said. "That's what our team's about."
The Twins led 5-0 before Boston scored six in the seventh on six consecutive hits. But Minnesota strung together seven hits and a walk and took advantage of two errors by Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra in the eighth to make it 11-6 and win its fourth in a row.
"That doesn't happen very often," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said of the back-to-back six-run innings. "A lot of funny things happened. This ballpark right here's famous for a lot of that stuff."
The Minnesota bullpen had been baseball's best, allowing three earned runs in 21 innings and an opponent's batting average of .161. But neither LaTroy Hawkins nor J.C. Romero, who both pitched Thursday night, retired a batter.
Johan Santana finally stopped the Red Sox, allowing one run, two hits and a walk in 12/3 innings. In all, the Twins relievers allowed five runs and seven hits in 22/3 innings.
But Boston's bullpen was worse, giving up six runs, eight hits and a walk in 22/3 innings.
"We just couldn't stop the bleeding," said Red Sox manager Grady Little, whose team lost for the first time in five games and the third time in 13 home games. "Our guys have been good at coming back, but that six-run top of the eighth took the wind out of our sails."
BLUE JAYS 3, ANGELS 1: Former Rays starter Cory Lidle pitched a three-hitter and Carlos Delgado hit a three-run homer in the first inning to lead host Toronto.
The game was interrupted briefly with two outs in the ninth when a fan came out of seats in the rightfield corner and jogged toward second base, pointing at the bag.
Toronto second baseman Orlando Hudson got into a football stance and shoved the male fan. Three security guards tackled the fan and escorted him off the field.
"I thought he was going after my boy, so I had to protect my player," said Hudson, who thought the fan was pointing at shortstop Chris Woodward. "I can't let that happen. He could have had a weapon."
The fan's identity was not immediately available.
YANKEES 5, A'S 3: Slumping Hideki Matsui slapped a key hit-and-run single and a run-scoring double and made two nice catches in leftfield to lead host New York. David Wells pitched the Yankees to their third win in a row and 12th in 15 games. Manager Joe Torre moved into a tie for 14th place on baseball's career victory list with Fred Clarke at 1,602.
MARINERS 9, WHITE SOX 2: Mike Cameron, playing on the first anniversary of his four-homer game in Chicago, went 3-for-3 with a home run, two walks and three runs scored to lead visiting Seattle, which had a season-high 16 hits. Edgar Martinez got two hits to reach 2,000 for his career.
ROYALS 5, ORIOLES 2: Miguel Asencio pitched his first career complete game and Mike Sweeney and Ken Harvey homered as visiting Kansas stopped a four-game losing streak.
INDIANS 6, RANGERS 5: Ellis Burks hit a two-run double in the eighth, his second of the night, as host Cleveland snapped an eight-game losing streak.
