Sporting Digest: Baseball

KEN GRIFFEY Jnr hit his 31st home run of the season to break Babe Ruth's major league record for homers before July in the Seattle Mariners' 12-3 pounding of the California Angels at Anaheim on Wednesday.

AMERICAN LEAGUE: New York Yankees 9 Minnesota 2; Cleveland 9 Detroit 6; Chicago White Sox 4 Texas 0; Milwaukee 9 Baltimore 2; Boston 3 Toronto 2; Seattle 12 California 3; Kansas City 10 Oakland 1.

NATIONAL LEAGUE: Montreal 6 St Louis 4; San Diego 7 Los Angeles 6; Colorado 14 Houston 5; Cincinnati 4 San Francisco 3; Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia 4; New York Mets 5 Atlanta 2. Postponed: Chicago at Florida.