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Compiled from wire reports
Jody Posey hit a three-run homer last night and Panama City, Fla., beat an erratic Cranston, R.I., team 8-6 in the 50th Little League World Series at Williamsport, Pa.
Panama City (2-0) scored six runs in the first inning on Posey's second first-inning homer of the series, two bases-loaded walks and two errors by Cranston second baseman Jake Bazirgan, who was replaced by Lew Colby.
Cranston's Tom Michael walked and scored in the top of the first and hit a solo homer in the third before about 15,000 people at Lamade Stadium.
In five innings, Michael and reliever Michael Luke walked eight, with four scoring. Cranston (1-1) wasted a chance to clinch a spot in Thursday's semifinals with a win.
In yesterday's other preliminary games, Taiwan beat the Dominican Republic 9-0; Moorpark, Calif., defeated Marshalltown, Iowa, 7-3; and Canada edged the mostly American team from Saudi Arabia 3-2.
Orioles 4, Mariners 1: Mike Mussina allowed only two hits over seven innings to win his fifth straight start and Baltimore beat Seattle before 47,679 fans, the largest crowd of the season at Camden Yards.
Eddie Murray, who is two homers short of 500 for his career, went 1-for-2 with two walks for the Orioles. His hardest hit was a sharp single to right in the fourth.
Mussina (16-8) struck out eight, matching his season high, and walked four.
Tigers 16, White Sox 11: Melvin Nieves homered from both sides of the plate for the second time this season as the Tigers snapped an eight-game losing streak.
Nieves drove in a career-high five runs for Detroit, which also got home runs from Andujar Cedeno and Bobby Higginson while roughing up four Chicago pitchers for 15 hits.
Tony Phillips, Robin Ventura, Danny Tartabull and Frank Thomas homered for the White Sox, who lost for the first time in nine meetings against Detroit this year.
Yankees 17, Angels 6: The New York Yankees spotted California five runs in the first inning before scoring 17 straight runs of their own in a rout of the Angels.
Jim Leyritz homered and drove in five runs, and reliever Brian Boehringer (1-2) gave New York time to get back in it by pitching 51-3 shutout innings for his first major-league win.
Twins 12, Brewers 7: Marty Cordova hit two home runs in a game for the first time and matched a career high with four RBIs to lead the Minnesota Twins over the Milwaukee Brewers.
Cordova added a double, Scott Stahoviak also homered and Paul Molitor had three hits, leaving him 38 short of 3,000.
Braves 4, Reds 1: Terry Pendleton hit his first home run since returning to the Braves, and Chipper Jones and Ryan Klesko also hit third-inning homers as Atlanta beat the Cincinnati Reds.
Tom Glavine (13-7) allowed five hits in eight innings as the Braves won their fifth straight and eighth in nine games.
Pendleton, reacquired Aug. 13 in a trade with Florida, broke a 1-1 leading off the third with his eighth homer of the season. Jones followed with his 26th, and one out later Klesko hit the first pitch 421 feet to center for his 30th.
Glavine struck out five and walked three. Mark Wohlers pitched a perfect ninth for his 31st save, setting a team record. Gene Garber had 30 saves in 1982.
Mets 7, Giants 3: Bobby Jones struck out a career-high 10 batters and a rare infielder's interference call led to four unearned runs in the seventh inning for the New York Mets, who beat the San Francisco Giants.
Jones (11-7) walked one and allowed four hits over seven innings to win his second straight start. John Franco earned his 27th save after Doug Henry walked two batters in the ninth.
Todd Hundley hit his 37th home run of the season in the first to give the Mets a 2-0 lead.
Cubs 8, Marlins 1: Florida pitcher Mark Hutton walked four of the first five hitters he faced and hit the fifth, helping the Chicago Cubs to an eight-run first inning and a win over the Marlins.
Pitcher Kevin Foster and Ryne Sandberg each knocked in two runs in the inning as Hutton (1-1) threw only seven strikes in 25 pitches in his five-batter stint.
Foster (4-2) gave up two hits and walked one over five innings. He struck out two.
Astros 9, Pirates 4: John Cangelosi tied a career-high with four hits in his first game since a four-game suspension and Donne Wall stopped his four-game losing streak as Houston beat Pittsburgh.
Wall (7-4), backed by an early 7-0 lead, allowed three hits and three runs in seven-plus innings.
Houston's Derek Bell drove in his 100th run with an eighth inning sacrifice fly.
Norfolk 9, Pawtucket 1: Shannon Withem held Pawtucket to six hits over 71-3 innings, and Norfolk touched Red Sox pitchers for 16 hits.
Withem (1-3) struck out eight and walked one, giving up his only run in the first on an RBI single by Jose Malave.
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