Dye's 3 doubles lift White Sox over Rangers

Mark Buehrle won his sixth straight decision and Jermaine Dye doubled three times, once with the bases loaded, to help the Chicago White Sox beat the Texas Rangers 7-0 Wednesday in Chicago.

A.J. Pierzynski homered in his fourth consecutive game, and Paul Konerko also connected.

Buehrle (7-1) allowed nine hits in 7 1-3 innings and got out of two early jams to run his career record against Texas to 7-0. The quick-working lefty became the third seven-game winner in the major leagues, joining teammate Jon Garland (8-0) and Florida's Dontrelle Willis.

The White Sox will take a major league-best 29-12 record into Friday's interleague opener with the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

Dye hit a two-run double in the fourth. Juan Uribe added a two-run single off Ryan Drese (3-4).

Cliff Politte and Neal Cotts completed the nine-hitter, Chicago's AL-leading fourth shutout this season.

ATHLETICS 13, RED SOX 6: At Oakland, Calif., Eric Chavez hit a three-run homer, David Wells flopped in his first start in three weeks and Oakland routed Boston.

Seth Etherton (1-0), called up from Triple-A Sacramento on Sunday to make his first major league appearance since 2003, pitched 7 1/3 strong innings a day before his wife was scheduled to deliver their first child.

The right-hander retired 15 of his first 17 batters, and the A's batted around in the first two innings. Eric Byrnes had four of Oakland's 19 hits and scored three runs. Mark Kotsay had a two-run double and Chavez drove in four runs as the Athletics established season highs for hits and runs.

They were the only team in the majors that hadn't scored 10 or more in a game.

Wells (2-4) lasted only 1 1-3 innings, his shortest outing since June 2001 with the White Sox. The A's tagged him for seven runs and nine hits in his first start since April 25 because of a sprained right foot.

ANGELS 2, INDIANS 1: At Cleveland, Bartolo Colon pitched eight strong innings on three days' rest and the Angels rallied for two runs in the ninth off Jake Westbrook to beat Cleveland.

Colon (5-3) allowed just four hits but appeared to be on his way to a tough loss before the Angels finally figured out Westbrook (1-7), who took a two-hitter into the ninth.

He was two outs from his second career shutout when the Angels, who hadn't gotten a hit since the second, strung together three straight singles. Darin Erstad's RBI single tied it, and pinch-hitter Bengie Molina hit a sacrifice fly against reliever Arthur Rhodes.