AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Olerud’s Homer Lifts Blue Jays Past Indians

John Olerud hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the 10th inning, giving the Toronto Blue Jays a 7-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians Thursday night at Toronto.

Duane Ward (7-4) got the win in relief of starter Jack Morris, who failed in his first attempt at becoming the first 20-game winner in the Blue Jays’ 16-year history. Ward pitched one perfect inning.

Morris took a 5-3 lead into the eighth, but Albert Belle, who hit a two-run homer in the first inning, tied the score with a two-run double. Morris yielded five runs, four of them earned, and six hits in nine innings.

Dave Winfield drew a one-out walk and Olerud followed with his 15th homer, a drive over the right-field fence off Eric Plunk to increase Toronto’s lead over idle Baltimore in the East to 3 1/2 games.

Milwaukee 10, Boston 4--Roger Clemens’ bid for a fourth Cy Young Award suffered a setback as the Brewers capitalized on five Red Sox errors to win at Boston.

The five errors matched this season’s American League high, but Clemens (18-10) was hardly blameless. He had his second consecutive poor outing, giving up 10 hits and eight runs, only three of them earned, in 4 1/3 innings.

A day earlier, Clemens and teammate Wade Boggs patched up their differences over a scoring change that turned an error by Boggs last Saturday into a hit and boosted Clemens’ earned-run average from 2.24 to 2.31.

Now it’s 2.39, but still best in the league ahead of Kevin Appier of Kansas City at 2.46. Clemens struck out two, giving him 200 as he joined Walter Johnson and Rube Waddell as the only American League pitchers with seven consecutive 200-strikeout seasons.