Millar Gives O's Walk-Off Win Over Red Sox

BALTIMORE -- Kevin Millar hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning after Miguel Tejada tied it with a shot off Eric Gagne in the eighth, leading the Baltimore Orioles past the skidding Boston Red Sox 6-3 Sunday.

It was the fourth loss in six games for the Red Sox, whose lead over the second-place New York Yankees in the AL East shrunk to four games _ Boston's smallest margin since May 1.

Corey Patterson led off the 10th with a single off Kyle Snyder (2-3) and went to third on a single by Nick Markakis. After Tejada fouled out, Markakis stole second and Millar hit a 2-2 pitch into the left-field seats.

Baltimore took two of three from Boston, ending a run of 11 straight series losses to the Red Sox since July 7-10, 2005.

Chad Bradford (1-4) got two outs in the 10th for the win.

Gagne, obtained from Texas on July 31 to fortify the back end of the bullpen, endured another damaging performance. Seeking to hold a 3-1 lead in the eighth, the right-hander entered with a runner on and promptly yielded a tying home run to Tejada on a 3-2 pitch.

Gagne retired the next two batters, but he has allowed seven runs in four innings over seven games. On Friday, Gagne got one out while blowing a four-run lead in a 6-5 defeat.

Boston starter Curt Schilling allowed one run and five hits in six innings. He walked off the mound with a 3-1 lead and in position to earn his first victory since June 7. Instead, he received a no-decision in his second start since spending more than six weeks on the disabled list with shoulder tendinitis.

Schilling walked none and did not have a strikeout, the first time in his career he's recorded zeros in both categories as a starter. It was also the second time in three starts that he failed to get a strikeout; prior to that, the right-hander had at least one strikeout in every appearance since July 1, 1993.

Manny Ramirez drove in two runs for the Red Sox to move past Jimmie Foxx into sole possession of sixth place on the franchise list.

The game drew a sellout crowd of 48,551, bringing the total attendance for the series to 146,786, the largest for a three-game series in the 16-year history of Camden Yards.

Fielding, both good and bad, played prominently in the second inning. With runners at first and second and no outs, Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts made a diving stop of a grounder and threw out Jason Varitek at first. Then, with two outs, third baseman Melvin Mora saved two runs by diving to his right to snare Julio Lugo's line drive.

In the bottom half, Baltimore got an unearned run after Lugo let a grounder to shortstop get through his legs.

A two-run double by Ramirez put Boston up in the third, and doubles by Varitek and Lugo made it 3-1 in the fourth.

Singles by Mike Lowell and Varitek put runners on the corners with no outs in the Boston sixth. But Lowell held at third while Eric Hinske bounced into a 1-6-3 double play, and Lugo followed with a popup to third.

Notes:@ Tejada's home run was the first by either team in the three games. ... Boston's Mike Timlin pitched a scoreless seventh and has been scored upon only once in his last 15 appearances. ... Mora went 0-for-3 against Schilling and is 3-for-31 lifetime against the right-hander.