Royals score 26, then zero

Alan Trammell has seen a lot of crazy things during almost three decades in the major leagues. Nothing, however, prepared him for Thursday.

A half-hour after being on the wrong end of several records in a 26-5 loss to the Kansas City Royals, his Detroit Tigers went out and won 8-0 in the second game of the doubleheader.

"We got our clocks cleaned in the first game, and then came out and shut them out in the second game," he said. "How can you explain something like that? You just can't."

The Royals were equally perplexed after setting a team record for runs in Game 1. They tied for the fifth-most runs in a major league game since 1900, scoring the most since Texas beat Baltimore 26-7 on April 19, 1996, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Joe Randa went 6-for-7 and tied a major league record by scoring six times. He became the first AL player to have six hits and six runs in a nine-inning game.

"You go through stretches like this, where everything you hit finds a hole," said Randa, who played for Detroit in 1998. "I know I got lucky out there."

Randa had five singles and a double, but he wasn't in the starting lineup for the second game.

"He's awfully tired from running the bases," Royals manager Tony Pena cracked between games.

Jeremy Bonderman (9-11) shut down the Royals in the nightcap, allowing six hits in eight innings. Kansas City only got one runner into scoring position against the 21-year-old right-hander, who had nine strikeouts.

YANKEES 9, 10, DEVIL RAYS 1, 5: At New York, Gary Sheffield and Tony Clark each drove in two runs during a seven-run second inning, and the New York Yankees completed a doubleheader sweep. John Flaherty and Derek Jeter homered for the Yankees, who outscored the Devil Rays 19-6 and outhit them 26-18 in the doubleheader. Jeter was 5-for-9 with a homer and three RBIs in the two games. The Yankees won all four games in the rain-shortened series and have won five in a row overall. They extended their AL East lead over Boston by at least a half-game, the first time they've increased the margin at all since Aug. 23.

Mike Mussina (10-9) threw eight sharp innings in the opener, which started with just a few hundred fans in the stands. Yankee Stadium filled up a bit more for the nightcap, with the paid attendance announced as 41,230.

Tanyon Sturtze (6-2) allowed two hits and walked one in 3 2/3 scoreless relief innings to win the second game.