BOSTON (AP) — Nelson Cruz had a pair of hits and Miguel Gonzalez took a shutout into the seventh inning as the Baltimore Orioles opened a double-digit lead in the AL East with a 4-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night.

The Orioles lead the division by 10 games, and the second-place New York Yankees have 21 games to play. Baltimore’s previous double-digit lead in the division was in 1979.

Gonzalez (9-7) allowed six hits and three walks while striking out four in 6 1-3 innings. He has allowed just four earned runs in his last 34 2-3 innings over five starts, winning four of them. Steve Pearce also had two hits for Baltimore, which has won nine of its last 12 games.

Joe Kelly (1-2) allowed three earned runs, six hits and three walks in 6 1-3 innings. He also hit two batters, and struck out six.

The last-place Red Sox had only one runner reach second base in the first six innings and did not put a runner on third until the seventh. They loaded the bases with three straight singles against Gonzalez in the seventh, but Tommy Hunter struck out Will Middlebrooks and David Ross to end the inning.

Baltimore went ahead on singles by Cruz, Chris Davis and Pearce in the second. The Orioles added two runs in the sixth thanks to a walk, a hit batter and an error on shortstop Xander Bogaerts when he couldn’t