SEATTLE, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Major League Baseball's Mark Teahen, longtime third baseman for the Kansas City Royals and recently acquired by the Chicago White Sox, will receive the 2009 Hutch Award(®).

Aaron Laffey worked 6 2/3 shutout innings Tuesday and remained unbeaten at home this season to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 5-0 victory over Texas. Laffey (6-3) allowed six hits for the Indians, who have won five of their last six games. Luis Valbuena drove in two runs in the victory. Josh Hamilton

Josh Hamilton's three-run blast in the first, one of five Texas homers, started an onslaught Friday that carried the Rangers past the Los Angeles Angels 11-6. Texas won for the eighth time in 10 meetings with the Angels this year and moved within 3 1/2 games of division-leading Los Angeles in the American League West.

Marlon Byrd put Texas in front with a three-run homer in the fifth Friday, and the Rangers waited out a long rain delay to defeat Seattle 5-4. Texas won for the 10th time in 12 outings and remained three games behind the Los Angeles Angels in the American League West. Seattle took a 2-1 lead into the fifth, but Taylor Teagarden hit his second homer of the year to tie it. Omar Vizquel and Michael Young then came through with two-out singles, and Byrd hit the first pitch he saw from Jason Vargas (3-5) for his 11th homer of the season. Texas had a 5-3 advantage when the game was delayed in the seventh inning by heavy rain and high wind.

David Murphy's bases-loaded single with one out in the 10th inning Wednesday gave Texas a 5-4 inter-league victory over Houston. Houston's Ivan Rodriguez, who played most of his career for Texas, established a major league record by catching his 2,227th game.