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• Tigers ace Justin Verlander has made eight straight starts in which he has allowed two earned runs or fewer. That's the second-longest such streak by an American League pitcher this season, according to Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet.org. The longest is the current 11-gamer of Oakland's Justin Duchscherer. After starting the year 2-9, Verlander's record now stands at 8-9.

• Cleveland All-Star left-hander Cliff Lee became the first Indians pitcher to yield at least 11 hits in a complete-game win since Charles Nagy, who gave up 13 against Baltimore on June 17, 1992, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Lee gave up just two runs on 11 hits as the Indians cruised past Seattle on Sunday, their second straight win following 10 consecutive road losses.

• J.J. Putz pitched a perfect seventh inning hours after Seattle activated him from the 15-day disabled list. His final pitch was a darting, 96 mph splitter that Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo swung over — a hint that Putz might be fully recovered from the hyperextended elbow that had him on the DL since June 12.

• The White Sox placed Jose Contreras on the 15-day disabled list on Sunday and recalled right-hander D.J. Carrasco, a Pima College and Safford High School alum, from Triple-A Charlotte. Carrasco was 2-1 with a 2.88 ERA with Charlotte in eight games this season.

• With yet another long ball on Sunday, Tampa Bay Rays rookie third baseman Evan Longoria now has 18 homers. The only AL rookie to have more on July 20 in the last 20 years was Angels slugger Tim Salmon, who had 20 in 1993.

• Tampa Bay activated closer Troy Percival from the 15-day disabled list on Sunday. Percival had been out since July 2 with a strained left hamstring.

— The Associated Press