Thursday 18 December 2014 16:22, UK
Maz Scherzer claimed his 16th win of the season as Detroit Tigers sealed a 3-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
The right-handed pitcher allowed only three hits as he took a shutout into 7 and 2-3 innings before being pulled, with Jose Veras taking a third out of the eighth and Joaquin Benoit finishing with his 12th successive save.
Scherzer is the first pitcher to win 16 of his first 17 since Roger Clemens in 2001.
Torii Hunter, Jhonny Peralta and Jose Iglesias all struck solo homers for the visitors.
The Tigers have now won 11 of 12 and are top of American League Central, while the White Sox have lost nine straight games and sit bottom of the standings.
Michael Saunders homered twice and drove in five runs and Erasmo Ramirez retired 18 of the first 20 batters as Seattle beat Baltimore 8-4.
Justin Smoak homered and went 3 for 3 with two walks for the Mariners, while Scott Feldman, in his sixth Oriols start since joining from the Cubs, allowed five runs, seven hits and four walks in 4 and 2-3 innings.
Yoenis Cespedes hit a two-run home run to help first-place Oakland end a three-game losing streak and also hand Texas a first defeat in six.
Jed Lowrie and Eric Sogard also drove in runs for the A's, who claimed a 4-2 win.
Jered Weaver pitched into the eighth to win his third straight decision and Kole Calhoun hit his second big league homer as Los Angeles Angels beat Toronto 7-3.
Minnesota's bullpen proved the difference by pitching six scoreless innings as Minneapolis beat Houston 6-4.
After starter Kyle Gibson allowed four runs and nine hits in three innings, Anthony Swarzak struck out five in the next three and Brian Duensing and Casey Fien followed with a scoreless innings each before Glen Perkins claimed his 26th save.
Jake Peavy impressed as Boston beat Arizona 5-2.
Peavy allowed just four hits in seven innings, striking out seven and walking two, with Shane Victorino and Jarrod Saltalamacchia among the batters who homered for the Red Sox.
Wil Myers had an RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning to help Tampa Bay to a 2-1 victory over San Francisco.
