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2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS Espn_red Detroit Tigers 2011 Schedule 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS Det




*** All Times Eastern. ***

All games except those listed as ESPN, FS-D PLUS , and FOX will be shown on FSN-DET (FS-D HD)

Click Score for ESPN RECAP and box score.

2011 Detroit Tigers MLB Schedule LINK

HOME GAMES IN BOLD

Date - Opponent - Time/Result

March 30: OFF
March 31: at Yankees, LOSE 3-6 (LP:Coke (0-1))

April 1: OFF
April 2: at Yankees, LOSE 6-10 (LP: Penny (0-1))
April 3: at Yankees, WIN 10-7 (WP: Scherzer (1-0); SV: Valverde (1))
April 4: at Orioles, LOSE 1-5 (LP: Porcello (0-1))
April 5: OFF
April 6: at Orioles, WIN 7-3 (WP: Verlander (1-0))
April 7: at Orioles, LOSE 5-9 (LP: Thomas (0-1))
April 8: vs. Royals, WIN 5-2 (WP: Scherzer (2-0); SV: Valverde (2))
April 9: vs. Royals, LOSE 1-3 (LP: Coke (0-2))
April 10: vs. Royals, LOSE 5-9 (LP: Porcello (0-2))
April 11: vs. Rangers, LOSE 0-2 (LP: Verlander (1-1))
April 12: vs. Rangers, WIN 5-4 (WP: Valverde (1-0))
April 13: vs. Rangers, WIN 3-2 (WP: Valverde (2-0)) SERIES WIN
April 14: at Athletics, WIN 3-0 (WP: Coke (1-2); SV: Valverde (3))
April 15: at Athletics, WIN 8-4 F/10 (WP: Villarreal (1-0))
April 16: at Athletics, LOSE 2-6 (LP: Verlander (1-2))
April 17: at Athletics, LOSE 1-5 (LP: Penny (0-2))
April 18: at Mariners, WIN 8-3 (WP: Scherzer (3-0))
April 19: at Mariners, LOSE 3-13 (LP: Coke (1-3))
April 20: at Mariners, WIN 3-2 (WP: Porcello (1-2); SV: Valverde (4)) SERIES WIN
April 21: OFF
April 22: vs. White Sox, WIN 9-3 (WP: Verlander (2-2))
April 23: vs. White Sox, WIN 9-0 (WP: Penny (1-2))
April 24: vs. White Sox, WIN 3-0 (WP: Scherzer (4-0); SV: Valverde (5)) SERIES SWEEP 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
April 25: OFF
April 26: vs. Mariners, LOSE 3-7 (LP: Coke (1-4))
April 27: vs. Mariners, LOSE 1-10 (LP: Verlander (2-3))
April 28: vs. Mariners,
LOSE 2-7 (LP: Penny (1-3))
April 29: at Indians, LOSE 5-9 (LP: Benoit (0-1))
April 30: at Indians, LOSE 2-3 F/13 INN (LP: Villarreal (1-1))
May 1: at Indians, LOSE 4-5 (LP: Benoit (0-2))
May 2: vs. Yankees, LOSE 3-5 (LP: Valverde (2-1))
May 3: vs. Yankees, WIN 4-2 (WP: Penny (2-3), SV: Valverde (6))
May 4: vs. Yankees, WIN 4-0 (WP: Scherzer (5-0))
May 5: vs. Yankees, WIN 6-3 (WP: Porcello (2-2)) SERIES WIN
May 6: at Blue Jays, LOSE 4-7 (LP: Coke (1-5))
May 7: at Blue Jays, WIN 9-0 (WP: Verlander (3-3)) NO HITTER
May 8: at Blue Jays, WIN 5-2 (WP: Penny (3-3), SV: Valverde (7))
May 9: at Blue Jays: WIN 10-5 (WP: Scherzer (6-0)) SERIES WIN
May 10: at Twins, WIN 10-2 (WP: Porcello (3-2))
May 11: at Twins, WIN 9-7 (WP: Benoit (1-2), SV: Valverde (8)) SERIES SWEEP 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
May 12: OFF
May 13: vs. Royals, WIN 3-1 (WP: Verlander (4-3), SV: Valverde (9))
May 14: vs. Royals, WIN 3-0 (WP: Penny (4-3), SV: Valverde (10))
May 15: vs. Royals, 1:05 RAINED OUT (MAKE UP SEPT 1 AT 1:05p) SERIES WIN
May 16: vs. Blue Jays, LOSE 2-4 (LP: Benoit (1-3))
May 17: vs. Blue Jays, 7:05 RAINED OUT (MAKE UP June 27 at 7:05 p.m.)
May 18: at Red Sox, LOSE 0-1 (LP: Schlereth (0-1))
May 19: at Red Sox, LOSE 3-4 (LP: Alburquerque (0-1))
May 20: at Pirates, LOSE 1 - 10 (LP: Penny (4-4))
May 21: at Pirates, LOSE 2-6 (LP: Scherzer (6-1))
May 22: at Pirates, WIN 2-0 (WP: Porcello (4-2), SV: Valverde (11))
May 23: vs. Rays, WIN 6-3 (WP: C Furbush (1-0))
May 24: vs. Rays, WIN 7-6 (WP: Alburquerque (1-1), SV: Benoit (1))
May 25: vs. Rays, 1:05 RAINED OUT (MAKE UP June 13 at 7:05 p.m.)
May 26: vs. Red Sox, LOSE 1-14 F/8 INNINGS RAIN (LP: Scherzer (6-2))
May 27: vs. Red Sox, LOSE 3-6 (LP: Porcello (4-3))
May 28: vs. Red Sox, 7:05 RAINED OUT (MAKE UP MAY 29 at 7:05 )
May 29: vs. Red Sox, LOSE 3-4 (LP: Valverde (2-2))
May 29: vs. Red Sox, WIN 3-0 (WP: Verlander (5-3), SV: Valverde (12))
May 30: vs. Twins, WIN 6-5 (WP: Alburquerque (2-1), SV: Valverde (13))
May 31: vs. Twins, WIN 8-7 (WP: Alburquerque (3-1), SV: Benoit (2))
June 1: vs. Twins, WIN 4-2 (WP: Porcello (5-3), SV: Valverde (14)) SERIES SWEEP2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
June 2: OFF
June 3: at White Sox, LOSE 4-6 (LP: Oliver (0-1))
June 4: at White Sox, WIN 4-2 (WP: Verlander (6-3), SV: Valverde (15))
June 5: at White Sox, WIN 7-3 (WP: Penny (5-4)) SERIES WIN
June 6: at Rangers, WIN 13-7 (WP: Scherzer (7-2))
June 7: at Rangers, WIN 8-1 (WP: Porcello (6-3))
June 8: at Rangers, LOSE 3-7 (LP: Coke (1-6)) SERIES WIN
June 9: vs. Mariners, WIN 4-1 (WP: Verlander (7-3), SV: Valverde (16))
June 10: vs. Mariners, LOSE: 2-3 (LP: Penny (5-5))
June 11: vs. Mariners, WIN 8-1 (WP: Scherzer (8-2))
June 12: vs. Mariners, LOSE 3-7 (LP: Porcello (6-4))
June 13: vs. Rays, WIN 2-1 F/10 INNINGS (WP: Purcey (1-0)) SERIES SWEEP2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
June 14: vs. Indians, WIN 4-0 (WP: Verlander (8-3))
June 15: vs. Indians, LOSE 4-6 (LP: C Furbush (1-1))
June 16: vs. Indians, WIN 6-2 (WP: Scherzer (9-2)) SERIES WIN
June 17: at Rockies, LOSE 6-13 (LP: Porcello (6-5))
June 18: at Rockies, LOSE 4-5 (LP: Coke (1-7))
June 19: at Rockies, WIN 9-1 (WP: Verlander (9-3))
June 20: at Dodgers, LOSE 0-4 (LP: B. Penny (5-6))
June 21: at Dodgers, LOSE 1-6 (LP: Scherzer (9-3))
June 22: at Dodgers, WIN 7-5 (WP: Alburquerque (4-1), SV: Valverde (17))
June 23: OFF
June 24: vs. Diamondbacks, LOSE 6-7 (LP: D. Purcey (1-1) )
June 25: vs. Diamondbacks, WIN 6-0 (WP: Verlander (10-3))
June 26: vs. Diamondbacks, WIN 8-3 (WP: Alburquerque (5-1)) SERIES WIN
June 27: vs. Blue Jays, WIN 4-2 WP: Benoit (2-3), SV: Valverde (18))
June 28: vs. Mets, LOSE 3-14 (LP: Porcello (6-6))
June 29: vs. Mets, LOSE 9-16 (LP: Coke (1-8))
June 30: vs. Mets, WIN 5-2 (WP: Verlander (11-3), SV: Valverde (19))
July 1: vs. Giants, LOSE 3-4 (LP: Valverde (2-3))
July 2: vs. Giants, LOSE 3-15 (LP: Scherzer (9-4))
July 3: vs. Giants, WIN 6-3 (WP: Porcello (7-6), SV: Valverde (20))
July 4: at Angels, LOSE 1-5 (LP: Furbush (1-2))
July 5: at Angels, LOSE 0-1 (LP: Verlander (11-4)
July 6: at Angels, WIN 5-4 (WP: Penny (6-6), SV: Valverde (21))
July 7: at Royals, WIN 3-1 (WP: Scherzer (10-4), SV: Valverde (22))
July 8: at Royals, WIN 6-4 (WP: Porcello (8-6), SV: Valverde (23))
July 9: at Royals, LOSE 6-13 (LP: Furbush (1-3))
July 10: at Royals, WIN 2-1 (WP: Verlander (12-4), SV: Valverde (24)) SERIES WIN
July 11: State Farm Home Run Derby

From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100915/SPORTS0104/9150400/1129/sports0104/Tigers-to-visit-Pirates--Rockies--Dodgers-in-2011--here-s-complete-schedule#ixzz0zk1wNzb1


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2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS Espn_red Detroit Tigers 2011 Schedule 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS Det

RECORD: WINS: 95, LOSES: 67

*** All Times Eastern. ***

All games except those listed as ESPN, FS-D PLUS , and FOX will be shown on FSN-DET (FS-D HD)

Click Score for ESPN RECAP and box score.


2011 Detroit Tigers MLB Schedule LINK


HOME GAMES IN BOLD

Date - Opponent - Time/Result
July 12: All-Star Game, at Chase Field, Phoenix - NL 5 - AL 1
July 13: OFF
July 14: OFF
July 15: vs. White Sox,
LOSE 2-8 (LP: Verlander (12-5))
July 16: vs. White Sox, LOSE 0-5 (LP: Scherzer (10-5))
July 17: vs. White Sox, WIN 4-3 (WP: Penny (7-6), SV: Valverde (25))
July 18: OFF
July 19: vs. Athletics, WIN 8-3 (WP: Porcello (9-6))
July 20: vs. Athletics,
LOSE 5-7(LP: Purcey (1-2))

July 21: at Twins, WIN 6-2 (WP: Verlander (13-5))
July 22: at Twins, WIN 8-2 (WP: Scherzer (11-5))
July 23: at Twins, LOSE 1-4 (LP: Penny (7-7)
July 24: at Twins, WIN 5-2 (WP: Porcello (10-6), SV: Valverde (26)) SERIES WIN
July 25: at White Sox, LOSE 3-6 (LP: Below (0-1))
July 26: at White Sox, WIN 5-4 (WP: Verlander (14-5), SV: Valverde (27))
July 27: at White Sox, LOSE 1-2 (LP: Scherzer (11-6))
July 28: vs. Angels,
LOSE 7-12(LP: Penny (7-8)
July 29: vs. Angels, WIN 12-2 (WP: Porcello (11-6)
July 30: vs. Angels, LOSE 1-5 (LP: Turner (0-1))
July 31: vs. Angels, WIN 3-2 (WP: Verlander (15-5), SV: Valverde (28))
Aug. 1: OFF
Aug. 2: vs. Rangers, WIN 6-5 (WP: Benoit (3-3), SV: Valverde (29))
Aug. 3: vs. Rangers, WIN 5-4 (WP: Fister (4-12), SV: Valverde (30))
Aug. 4: vs. Rangers, LOSE 2-5 (LP: Penny (7-9)) SERIES WIN
Aug. 5: at Royals, WIN 4-3 F/10 (WP: Schlereth (1-1), SV: Valverde (31))
Aug. 6: at Royals, WIN 4-3 (WP: Verlander (16-5), SV: Valverde (32))
Aug. 7: at Royals, LOSE 3-4 (LP: Scherzer (11-7)) SERIES WIN
Aug. 8: OFF
Aug. 9: at Indians, LOSE 2-3 F/14 (LP: Pauley (5-5))
Aug. 10: at Indians, LOSE 3-10 (LP: Porcello (11-7))
Aug. 11: at Indians, WIN 4-3 (WP: Verlander (17-5), SV: Valverde (33))
Aug. 12: at Orioles, WIN 5-4 (WP: Penny (8-9), SV: Valverde (34))
Aug. 13: at Orioles, WIN 6-5 (WP: Scherzer (12-7), SV: Valverde (35))
Aug. 14: at Orioles, LOSE 5-8 (LP: Fister (4-13)) SERIES WIN
Aug. 15: vs. Twins, LOSE 6-9 (LP: Porcello (11-8))
Aug. 16: vs. Twins, WIN 7-1 (WP: Verlander (18-5)
Aug. 17: vs. Twins, LOSE 5-6 (LP: Valverde (2-4))
Aug. 18: OFF
Aug. 19: vs. Indians, WIN 4-1 (WP: Scherzer (13-7), SV: Valverde (36))
Aug. 20: vs. Indians, WIN 10-1 (WP: Fister (5-13))
Aug. 21: vs. Indians, WIN 7-6 (WP: Coke (2-8), SV: Valverde (37)) SERIES SWEEP 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
Aug. 22: at Rays, WIN 5-2 (WP: Verlander (19-5))
Aug. 23: at Rays, WIN 2-1 (WP: Penny (9-9), SV: Coke (1))
Aug. 24: at Rays, LOSE 2-3 (LP: Below (0-2))
Aug. 25: at Rays, WIN 2-0 (WP: Fister (6-13), SV: Valverde (38)) SERIES WIN
Aug. 26: at Twins, WIN 8-1 (WP: Porcello (12-8))
Aug. 27: at Twins, WIN 6-4 (WP: Verlander (20-5), SV: Valverde (39))
Aug. 28: at Twins, LOSE 4-11 (LP: Penny (9-10) SERIES WIN
Aug. 29: vs. Royals,
LOSE 5-9 (LP: Scherzer (13-8))
Aug. 30: vs. Royals, WIN 2-1 F/10 INN (WP: Benoit (4-3))
Aug. 31: vs. Royals, WIN 5-4 (WP: Schlereth (2-1), SV: Valverde (40))

Sept. 1: vs. Royals, LOSE 8-11 (LP: Coke (2-9))
Sept. 2: vs. White Sox, WIN 8-1 (WP: Verlander (21-5))
Sept. 3: vs. White Sox, WIN 9-8 (WP: Marte (1-0))
Sept. 4: vs. White Sox, WIN 18-2 (WP: Scherzer (14-8)) SERIES SWEEP 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
Sept. 5: at Indians, WIN 4-2 (WP: Fister (7-13), SV: Valverde (41))
Sept. 6: at Indians, WIN 10-1 (WP: Porcello (13-8))
Sept. 7: at Indians, WIN 8-6 (WP: Verlander (22-5)), SV: Valverde (42)) SERIES SWEEP 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
Sept. 8: OFF
Sept. 9: vs. Twins, WIN 8-4 (WP: Penny (10-10))
Sept. 10: vs. Twins, WIN 3-2 (WP: A. Alburquerque (6-1))
Sept. 11: vs. Twins, WIN 2-1(WP: Fister (8-13), SV: Valverde (43)) SERIES SWEEP 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
Sept. 12: at White Sox, WIN 14-4 (WP: Porcello (14-8))
Sept. 13: at White Sox, WIN 5-0 (WP: VERLANDER (23-5))
Sept. 14: at White Sox, WIN 6-5 F/10 (WP: Coke (3-9), SV: Valverde (44)) SERIES SWEEP 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o
Sept. 15: at Athletics, LOSE 1-6 (LP: Scherzer (14-9))
Sept. 16: at Athletics, WIN 3-1 (WP: Fister (9-13), SV: Valverde (45))
TIGERS WIN AL CENTRAL DIVISION
Sept. 17: at Athletics, LOSE 3-5 (LP: Porcello (14-9))
Sept. 18: at Athletics, WIN 3-0 (WP: Verlander (24-5)), SV: Valverde (46))
Sept. 19: OFF DAY
Sept. 20: at Royals, LOSE 2-10 (LP: Penny (10-11))
Sept. 21: at Royals, WIN 6-3 (WP: Fister (10-13), SV: Valverde (47))
Sept. 22: vs. Orioles, LOSE 5-6 (LP: Pauley (5-6))
Sept. 23: vs. Orioles, WIN 4-3 F/11 (WP: Perry (1-0))
Sept. 24: vs. Orioles, LOSE 5-6 (LP: Schlereth (2-2))
Sept. 25: vs. Orioles, WIN 10-6 (WP: Penny (11-11))
Sept. 26: vs. Indians, WIN 14 - 0 (WP: Fister (11-13) (8-1 as a Tiger!))
Sept. 27: vs. Indians, WIN 9-6 (WP: Scherzer (15-9), SV: Valverde (48))
Sept. 28: vs. Indians, WIN 5-4 (WP: Perry, SV: Valverde (49)) SERIES SWEEP 2011 DETROIT TIGER SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 3432447269_4de8acbecc_o

From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100915/SPORTS0104/9150400/1129/sports0104/Tigers-to-visit-Pirates--Rockies--Dodgers-in-2011--here-s-complete-schedule#ixzz0zk8EP4j4


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SERIES W-L RECORD:
BEST 3 OF 5 SERIES

AL Division Series 1: DET BEATS NYY 3 GAMES TO 2

AL Division Series 2: TEX BEATS TB 3 GAMES TO 1
NL Division Series 1: PHI 2 - STL 2
NL Division Series 2: MIL 2 - ARI 2


2011 MLB Postseason Schedule**

** subject to change

Friday September 30, 2011
All times Eastern. Subject to change.

Rays @ Rangers - TEX 0, TB 9 - WP:Moore (1-0), LP:Wilson (0-1)
Tigers @ Yankees - Suspended RAIN


Saturday October 1, 2011
All times Eastern. Subject to change.

D-backs @ Brewers -MIL 4, ARI 1 - LP: Kennedy (0-1) VS WP: Gallardo (1-0)
Cardinals @ Phillies - STL 6, PHI 11 - LP: Lohse (0-1) VS WP: Halladay (1-0)
Rays @ Rangers - TEX 8, TB 6 - LP: LP: Shields (0-1) VS WP: Holland (1-0)
Tigers @ Yankees - DET 3 @ NYY 9 - LP: Fister (0-1) VS WP: Nova (1-0)


Sunday October 2, 2011

All times Eastern. Subject to change.

Tigers @ Yankees - NYY 3, DET 5 - WP: Scherzer (1-0) VS LP: Garcia (0-1)
D-backs @ Brewers - MIL 9, ARI 4 - LP: Hudson (0-1) VS WP: Saito (1-0)
Cardinals @ Phillies - STL 5, PHI 4 - WP: Dotel (1-0) VS LP: Lee (0-1)


Monday October 3, 2011
All times Eastern. Subject to change.

Rangers @ Rays - TEX 4, TB 3 - WP: Lewis (1-0) VS LP: Price (0-1)
Yankees @ Tigers - NYY 4, DET 5 - LP: Soriano (0-1) VS WP: Verlander (1-0)


Tuesday October 4, 2011
All times Eastern. Subject to change.

Brewers @ D-backs - MIL 1, ARI 8 - LP: Marcum (0-1) VS WP: Collmenter (1-0)
Yankees @ Tigers - NYY 10, DET 1 - WP: Burnett (1-0) VS LP: Porcello (0-1)
Phillies @ Cardinals - STL 2, PHI 3 - WP: Hamels (1-0) VS LP: Garcia (0-1)
Rangers @ Rays - TEX 4, TB 3 - WP: Harrison (1-0) VS LP: Hellickson (0-1)


Wednesday October 5, 2011
All times Eastern. Subject to change.

Brewers @ D-backs - MIL 6, ARI 10 - LP: Wolf (0-1) VS WP: Owings (1-0)
Phillies @ Cardinals - STL 5, PHI 3 - LP: Oswalt (0-1) VS WP: Jackson (1-0)


Thursday October 6, 2011
All times Eastern. Subject to change.

Tigers @ Yankees - NYY 2, DET 3 - WP: Fister (1-1) VS LP: Nova (1-1)


Friday October 7, 2011
All times Eastern. Subject to change.

D-backs @ Brewers - TIME 5:00pm - AP: Kennedy (0-1) VS HP:Gallardo (1-0)
Cardinals @ Phillies - TIME 8:30pm - AP:Carpenter (0-0) VS HP:Halladay (1-0)

Saturday October 8, 2011
All times Eastern. Subject to change.

TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD


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Bullpen lets Tigers down in opener
In relief of Verlander, Coke allows tiebreaking solo homer

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | Thursday, Mar 31, 2011

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NEW YORK -- Justin Verlander badly wanted to start off 2011 with a solid outing, shake his opening-month blues and get his first Opening Day win. He got two of the three. Curtis Granderson, however, hit a tiebreaking homer off Phil Coke to lead off the bottom of the seventh, sending the Tigers to a 6-3 loss to the Yankees on Thursday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.

The Tigers' fourth Opening Day loss in five years did not go on Verlander's record. After falling behind on Mark Teixeira's three-run homer in the third inning, the Tigers' ace settled to retire nine straight Yankees, then stranded a pair of runners with back-to-back strikeouts in the sixth.

Verlander ensured a quality start by spotting a 96-mph fastball off the outside corner for a called third strike on Nick Swisher, then dropping an 85-mph changeup as Jorge Posada swung and missed. Then he threw out a fist pump, the competitiveness evident for someone who talked all spring about shaking his recent early-season struggles.

The Tigers converted Coke to a starter this spring but have him in the bullpen until they need a fifth starter on April 9. With Joel Zumaya sidelined, Coke was back in his old setup role of sorts, this time enlisted to protect a tied score. Once he fell behind Granderson, 2-0, however, the left-hander was in trouble.

Granderson had homered in his past two Opening Days, a streak that started when he was still a Tiger in 2009, before he was dealt to New York for Coke and Austin Jackson. He also showed improvement against left-handed pitching last year under the tutelage of Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long. Once he got a fastball over the plate from Coke (0-1), Granderson turned on it with authority and sent a no-doubt drive into the right-field seats.

A Brandon Inge throwing error, and sacrifices by Brett Gardner and Derek Jeter -- the latter of which came off Ryan Perry -- brought Russell Martin around to score a critical insurance run.

Detroit scored its runs on a pair of sacrifice flies and an Inge RBI single but missed chances to break open the game early. Back-to-back singles from Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez and a Ryan Raburn walk loaded the bases with nobody out in the second inning against Yankees starter CC Sabathia.

After Jhonny Peralta flied out to center to drive in Cabrera, Sabathia regrouped by inducing a liner to second from Inge and a swing and a miss from Alex Avila. Two innings later, Sabathia did the same with Avila to strand runners at the corners following Inge's RBI.

Joba Chamberlain (1-0) retired the middle of the Tigers' lineup in order in the seventh to put himself in line for the victory. Mariano Rivera worked the ninth for the save.

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Penny off his game, Tigers can't keep up
Right-hander chased by Yanks in fifth inning; Jackson homers

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/2/2011 7:40 PM ET

NEW YORK -- The Tigers hoped that a healthy Brad Penny would get back to the form that made him so effective for the first month of last season. He still has every opportunity to find that form, but it wasn't going to happen on Saturday afternoon against the Yankees, who hit him around for eight runs over 4 1/3 innings to send Detroit to a 10-6 loss at Yankee Stadium.

Before an injury sidelined Penny last year, he had given up a total of six earned runs in April and rattled off quality starts in his first seven outings. That effectiveness was part of the reason Detroit signed the right-hander to a one-year contract as a stable, veteran arm in an otherwise young rotation.

From the outset on Saturday, Penny didn't seem comfortable, seemingly searching for the proper mechanics for his delivery. The Yankees' lineup wasn't going to do anything to help him. On the night college basketball had its Final Four, New York fittingly put down Detroit with a flurry of threes.

An infield single for Derek Jeter and a five-pitch walk to Mark Teixeira set up Alex Rodriguez for an RBI double to the right-field fence in the first inning. Robinson Cano's infield hit and Nick Swisher's sacrifice fly completed the three-run damage.

An inning later, Teixeira struck his second three-run homer in as many games, matching his home run total for all of last April. His devastating pull swing sent Penny's pitch out, along with memories of last year's slow start.

Penny's afternoon, of course, went in the opposite direction. The right-hander was visibly frustrated with himself coming off the mound after innings, and he was deliberate in his delivery out of the stretch. He turned and shouted in disgust as he got the ball from catcher Alex Avila after walking Jorge Posada with one out in the fifth. Moments later, manager Jim Leyland took the ball from Penny and handed it to reliever Brad Thomas.

Once Russell Martin turned on a Thomas offering for another three-run shot, Penny's line was complete.

After Austin Jackson became the first Tigers player to homer in 2011 with a third-inning solo shot, one of just two hits through 14 batters off Yankees starter A.J. Burnett, Detroit had one chance to creep back into the game in the sixth. Consecutive singles from Brennan Boesch, Jhonny Peralta and Avila scored one run and put two runners on with nobody out. Once Jackson drew a one-out walk to load the bases, Will Rhymes stepped to the plate as the potential tying run in a 6-2 game.

Rhymes' groundout to first drove in Peralta, but Burnett sent down Magglio Ordonez on a checked swing to end the threat.

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Boesch's huge effort gives Tigers first win
Slugger drives in four runs; Scherzer works five gutsy innings

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NEW YORK -- Brandon Inge saw an opposite-field fly ball off his bat, not well-struck, sail to the warning track in right field at Yankee Stadium in the second inning on Sunday and realized it was on.

"You mean the home-run derby," reliever Phil Coke said after the Tigers' 10-7 win.

Max Scherzer watched Don Kelly run out of room to get under a fourth-inning Robinson Cano fly ball -- the Yankees' third home run of the day -- and could only shrug.

"It is what it is," Scherzer said.

Brennan Boesch, last year's left-handed slugging sensation, saw those fly balls sail and still kept the all-fields approach that allowed him to get to this point. He ended up with arguably the best all-around game of his brief but mercurial career, and the Tigers ended up with their first win of the season, a game that turned as much on singles and sac flies as it did on seven home runs.

"I worked all spring on trying to use the whole field like I'm capable," Boesch said. "When I'm doing that, I feel pretty good up there. I think today was just an indication that, when I use the whole field, good things happen."

Not even the jet stream seemingly going out to right could get Boesch out of that mode. For someone who made his impact as a dead-pull power bat last summer, that says a lot about where he is as a hitter right now.

"I think he's seeing the ball well and putting a good swing on it," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "He's capable of hitting the ball out of the ballpark. But to me, the most satisfying at-bat of the day for Boesch was the line drive to left field [for a] sac fly. I thought he had a great at-bat -- two strikes, hit the ball the other way."

That sacrifice fly was the lone out Boesch made all day. It was also the only plate appearance in which he didn't score.

Boesch's two-run homer in the fifth was the only real dead-pull drive he had in the game. His other two hits to right field were ground-ball singles, and his other RBI came on a flared line-drive single into shallow center on a 1-2 pitch. Boesch put himself on base for both of Miguel Cabrera's home runs, and his leadoff single in the ninth set up a huge insurance tally on Ryan Raburn's RBI double, which put Detroit into double digits.

Even by Boesch's lofty standards from last season, this was historic. Not since Dmitri Young's three-homer Opening Day in 2005 had a Tiger put up four hits, four runs and four RBIs in the same game.

The Tigers needed just about all of the runs. They also needed two inning-ending, highlight-worthy catches from Austin Jackson to thwart Yankee rallies in the seventh and eighth, two innings of setup relief out of No. 5 starter Coke, and just enough damage control out of Scherzer to keep the early lead in a game they never trailed.

"You've got to give them credit," Yankees right fielder Nick Swisher said. "Those boys swung the bats good today. We just ran out of innings."

The justified opinion from Leyland after the first two games was that his pitchers had to do a better job of keeping the ball in the park to have a chance to salvage the series finale. The prevailing opinion after watching balls carry: Good luck with that.

Scherzer became the first Tigers pitcher since Jeremy Bonderman in 2007 to give up four home runs and still earn a victory, according to research on baseball-reference.com. The homers, including a pair of two-run shots by Jorge Posada, accounted for all six runs Scherzer allowed in his five innings. The other two, solo homers in the fourth from Mark Teixeira and Cano, seemed more like fly balls until they kept carrying.

"You lift the ball up in the air, and it's short right down the right-field line," Scherzer said of Cano's shot. "The wind got it and just took it out. For me, there's nothing more I can do."

Cano's home run brought the Yankees within a run at 5-4 and brought catcher Victor Martinez to the mound.

"I just wanted to let him know he was making good pitches, so stay there," Martinez said. "There's nothing more you can do about that. Just go out there, make your pitches and never give in. He has pretty good stuff to battle with that lineup."

Both of Cabrera's home runs went to left, not right. Nonetheless, they were hard-hit, no-doubt drives off Yankees starter Phil Hughes. Boesch's first-inning single extended the opening inning for Cabrera to pounce on a hanging slider from Hughes and send it out for his first home run of the year.

Boesch's third-inning single brought in Jackson following a leadoff walk and stolen base, then Cabrera sent his next drive into the left-field bleachers. It marked Cabrera's first two-homer game since his last trip to Yankee Stadium, last Aug. 18, and improved Cabrera to 7-for-14 lifetime off Hughes.

"He hits mistakes," Hughes said. "When you execute and make good pitches, I guess those are the seven times I've gotten him out. The other seven, he hits the ball a long way."

A half-inning after Teixeira and Cano homered, Boesch's home run caught that same breeze and carried. Instead of barely going out, however, it landed in the second deck, scoring Ramon Santiago to give the Tigers a 7-4 lead. Swisher never moved.

"That's barely out of Comerica, probably," Boesch said.

Coke saw his share of games like this out of the Yankees' bullpen in 2009. He kept the ball in the park, though Swisher's RBI double in the seventh seemed almost headed out. It still brought up the potential tying run.

Coke retired Posada, then earned a rematch against Curtis Granderson, the All-Star whose trade brought Coke to Detroit before last season. Three days after Granderson took Coke deep for a go-ahead home run, his drive to straightaway center sent Jackson, another piece of that trade, sprinting toward an over-the-shoulder catch.

An inning later, Jackson charged in to rob Teixeira of a two-out single with Derek Jeter on base, completing a hold for Joaquin Benoit before Jose Valverde worked the ninth for the save.

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Detroit 10, New York 7
Tigers find enough reasons to get first win
Tom Gage / The Detroit News

New York -- Every team needs a certain number of "yes, but" victories.

Games they win despite reasons they might not have.

That's not to say the Tigers didn't deserve Sunday's 10-7 victory over the Yankees.

With their three home runs offsetting the Yankees' four, the Tigers found more ways to score when the ball wasn't sailing into the seats.

Or just floating into the seats, as Robinson Cano's home run to right off Tigers' starter and winner Max Scherzer did in the third inning.

"There were a couple of them that probably wouldn't normally have gone," said Tigers manager Jim Leyland. "No complaints, because it works both ways."

In some ballparks, though, the right-fielder goes back, back, back before running out of room.

For Tigers right-fielder Don Kelly on Cano's home run, it was more like a back-and-a-half.

"I'm not sure," said Kelly, "but at home, I think I have 20 more feet of running room than that."

The Tigers also won because their bullpen pitched better than the Yankees' bullpen did -- one run allowed in the last four innings, thanks to Phil Coke, Joaquin Benoit and Jose Valverde.

Because Austin Jackson made a couple of big catches.

Because Brennan Boesch, in addition to a home run, had three singles and a sacrifice fly. Boesch is the first Tigers in six years (since Dmitri Young on April 4, 2005) to have a 4-4-4 day -- at least four hits, four runs scored and four RBIs in the same game.

"To me, the sac fly was his best at-bat," said Leyland.

And also because the Yankees knocked on more doors without a rally answering -- case in point being the fourth inning when Russell Martin's leadoff double led to nothing.

"That was probably the key of the game," said Leyland.

Even with all that went right, however -- Miguel Cabrera's pair of crushed two-run home runs ranking high on the list -- it turned out to be a "yes, but" game for the Tigers.

Yes, they won, but Scherzer struggled -- winning for the second time in his career when allowing six runs.

Yes, they won, but the Tigers have allowed 23 runs in their first three games.

Yes, they won but weren't sure the victory was locked down until Jorge Posada flied out to center to end it -- instead of hitting his third home run of the day.

And, yes, they won, but the Tigers already have allowed nine home runs -- something that seemed bad enough last year after eight games but has occurred this year after three.

That's why "yes, but" victories are so satisfying, though.

The Tigers left for Baltimore feeling good not only because their first victory made the trip with them, but because they were good enough to overcome the reasons that kept the Yankees in it.

"We got a couple of golden hits," said Leyland. 'But I'm not going to make a big deal about a win, because I didn't make a big deal about the first two losses."

And it's not as if everything went well.

Ryan Raburn made an error in left in the third inning, a liner clanging off his glove. The error cost the Tigers nothing, though.

Not only that, but Raburn made a superb catch in left to prevent a run in the first -- before the Tigers fully realized just how valuable it would become.

In any case, they won.

They're 1-2, not 0-3, and yes, they've given up a lot of runs, but they're not swinging badly themselves.

And at last glance, the Orioles' pitching staff isn't exactly the Yankees'.

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Porcello can't keep O's down in Tigers' loss

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/4/2011 8:23 PM ET

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BALTIMORE -- Jose Valverde was up all night battling food poisoning and couldn't hold down food Monday. Miguel Cabrera had the same stomach bug and was scrambling back to the clubhouse in the middle of Monday's 5-1 loss the Orioles.

Rick Porcello didn't have any of that. But after watching Brian Roberts' fly ball sail out of Camden Yards for a go-ahead three-run homer, he had every excuse to feel airsick.

"For me, with my sinker, I feel like if I'm down at the knees or below, a lot of times I'm going to get away with pitches, whether it's in, middle or out," Porcello said. "As long as it's down, they usually have a hard time getting underneath it."

That's what boggled Porcello about his outing, to the point that he had to watch video of it afterward to make sure what he saw was true. It wasn't just the mislocated sinkers that the Orioles got into the air, and there were more than a few. They lofted the ones Porcello felt good about throwing, too.

For four-plus innings, he could live with it. He couldn't understand it, but he could deal with it. Even talking about it, he chuckled because it sounded so odd for him.

"I think they know I'm a sinkerball pitcher," Porcello said, "and they're looking to hit the bottom half of the baseball. That's the best I can come up with. I thought there were some sinkers that I threw that were for sure ground-ball pitches, and they got them up in the air.

"Honestly, without the Roberts home run, I didn't really care. As long as you're getting outs, who cares how you get them, really? It wasn't like it wasn't sinking or I was leaving them up. I was making pitches and they were hitting them in the air."

As Roberts' drive carried out to right-center field, much to his disbelief, he felt a little different.

"It just kind of moved back across the plate," Porcello said. "You look at the swing, and he's clearly trying to get underneath it. It's one of those things where you make your pitch and it wasn't perfect, but it wasn't terrible."

Porcello is not a young fireballer. He survives on ground-ball outs as much or more than any Major League starter. He had one of baseball's best ratios of ground balls to fly balls as a rookie in 2009 before it drew a little closer to even last year.

The last time Porcello had an outing with only one out on the ground, a bench-clearing brawl got him ejected in the second inning at Fenway Park in August 2009. He had a bizarre outing with just four ground balls total against Oakland last May, a few starts before he was sent down, but even that wasn't like this.

Porcello's only ground-ball out Monday was a fourth-inning double play from Adam Jones, jammed on a Porcello sinker. He got nine outs in the air, and four more by strikeout.

"You'd certainly like to see the ball on the ground a little bit more than what it was," manager Jim Leyland said. "It was not on the ground quite enough, to be honest with you, but he was OK overall. I thought he attacked the zone pretty well. He certainly didn't pitch that bad."

Two of those strikeouts came once he started throwing more four-seam fastballs high to get hitters off the sinker. He fanned Mark Reynolds that way in the second inning before he spiked a slider in the dirt to Felix Pie that skipped past catcher Alex Avila for the Tigers' Major League-high sixth wild pitch of the season, scoring Matt Wieters for Baltimore's first run.

Porcello kept it at that as long as he could, surviving in the air and through swings and misses. Back-to-back ground-ball hits leading off the fifth, the latter of them a J.J. Hardy double just inside third base on a hit-and-run play, put runners at second and third with nobody out.

Roberts fouled off two Porcello fastballs before he teed off on a sinker at the knees.

"Roberts kind of golfed one," Leyland said, "and it kept carrying."

Nobody, including Roberts, thought it was carrying that far.

"Yeah, based on kind of what balls had been doing all day, when I hit it, I wasn't thinking, 'Home run,'" Roberts said. "I assumed I got the run in. Some hurricane came, I guess. I don't know."

Said Porcello: "When he hit it, I didn't [think it was going out]. And then I saw [Austin Jackson and Magglio Ordonez] running back. You could tell that ball was carrying. He might have hit it better than I thought, I don't know, but you tip your hat."

Orioles starter Jake Arrieta made it work with six innings of one-run ball. Will Rhymes went 2-for-3, including an RBI single scoring Brandon Inge after his one-out double in the third, but nobody else had a multihit game.

The middle of the Tigers' order -- Magglio Ordonez, Cabrera and Victor Martinez -- combined to go 1-for-12. Cabrera, weakened by the aforementioned stomach ailment, struck out against Arrieta with Rhymes on second and first base open in the opening inning on his way to an 0-for-4 afternoon.

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Verlander, Tigers have stuff to tame O's

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BALTIMORE -- The April showers for Justin Verlander might finally be over. While Verlander mixed a nasty curveball with his usual power arsenal to hold down the previously undefeated Orioles, Alex Avila supported his battery mate with a monster two-run homer on a five-RBI night, powering Detroit to a 7-3 win Wednesday at Camden Yards.

Orioles pitchers had allowed one run in each of the four wins during their unbeaten start, a standard that fell apart Wednesday once Brian Roberts and Nick Markakis couldn't communicate on who should catch Brennan Boesch's fly ball in short right field. Roberts ended up with the two-base error, and O's spot starter Brad Bergesen ended up throwing 18 more pitches before he got out of the inning. Avila hit one of them off the right-field scoreboard for a two-run double after Jhonny Peralta's walk further extended the inning.

Avila came up again in the fourth inning following Victor Martinez's leadoff single and put some more distance on his right-field drive, this time sending a 402-foot shot over the scoreboard for his first home run of the season.

Before the game, manager Jim Leyland talked about Avila needing to play more relaxed. He also talked about Avila needing to become more aggressive and turn on some pitches rather than waiting patiently for his pitch. Both of his hits came on 2-2 pitches.

"I told him the other day, 'You know, when you were at Alabama, you played and you had a lot of fun, and that's what you need to do up here,'" Leyland said Wednesday afternoon. "'You're a good big league player, and you're going to be a real good big league player. You just need to play like you played at Alabama. Enjoy it, have fun.'"

This, no doubt, was fun, even before he capped his night with an RBI single through a drawn-in infield to score Ryan Raburn in the eighth before stealing second. Avila went 3-for-4 after starting the season 1-for-10.

Verlander, of course, no stranger to slow starts. He hadn't won one of his first two starts to a season since his rookie campaign of 2006. A nasty stomach bug that left him bedridden last Friday and still bothered him earlier this week didn't bode well for him in this one, but a nasty curveball and, eventually, a nasty changeup made Baltimore's aggressive hitters queasy.

"Obviously the stuff is well above average," O's manager Buck Showalter said before the game, "but the command and the athleticism and the competitiveness puts him at another level. So, he's pretty special. Not many dents in that armor."

Verlander retired the first 10 Orioles in order before a Nick Markakis walk ended his perfect game bid. On the very next pitch, Derrek Lee broke up the no-hitter and shutout with a two-run homer to right to halve Detroit's lead to 4-2.

After Vladimir Guerrero's ensuing single brought the potential tying run to the plate, Verlander (1-0) sent it back with back-to-back three-pitch strikeouts, sending down Matt Wieters and Adam Jones swinging at curveball that dove into the dirt.

Verlander scattered two singles, a walk and a run over the next four innings. He fanned nine Orioles over eight innings yet used just 108 pitches in the process.

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Depleted bullpen roughed up in Tigers' loss

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/7/2011 10:35 PM ET

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BALTIMORE -- Hours after the Tigers placed Ryan Perry on the disabled list, they missed his presence in the seventh inning. Vladimir Guerrero's game-tying single and Adam Jones' go-ahead sacrifice fly completed a five-run Orioles comeback off an injury-depleted Tigers bullpen, sending Detroit to a 9-5 loss Thursday night at Camden Yards.

The loss ended a 2-4 road trip for the Tigers to New York and Baltimore, with two losses coming in the late innings. They return to Detroit in the early hours of Friday morning for their home opener in the afternoon against the Royals.

The Tigers had three leads in the game, but the O's never led until they rallied off Brad Thomas and Enrique Gonzalez in the seventh. The Tigers had retaken the lead in the top of the inning when Austin Jackson doubled in Alex Avila.

Perry had entered the season as the primary seventh-inning reliever, but went on the DL Thursday with an eye infection. Take away Phil Coke, back in the rotation preparing for his start Saturday, and manager Jim Leyland turned to the long end of the bullpen once Jones' two-run homer had tied the score in the sixth.

Brayan Villarreal kept the go-ahead run on base in the sixth with help from a shoestring catch by Jackson in left-center field. Once Jackson pulled Detroit ahead, Leyland turned to Thomas, who spent last year in long relief but had been hinted by Leyland as a situational guy if the need arose.

By the time the seventh inning was over, the Tigers had used two more relievers, covering 44 total pitches, and the O's had batted around.

Brian Roberts' leadoff single and Nick Markakis' five-pitch walk chased Thomas for Gonzalez, normally a long reliever, to face the right-handed hitters in the middle of Baltimore's order. Gonzalez got Derrek Lee to chase a high fastball for the first out, but Guerrero poked a ground ball through the right side to plate Roberts and tie the game.

A wild throw home from Don Kelly, just shifted to right field from third base in a defensive switch, allowed the runners to advance and set up Jones' go-ahead sacrifice fly to deep center after an intentional walk to noted Tigers killer Luke Scott.

Mark Reynolds put up two critical insurance runs by lining a double just inside the left-field foul line. Daniel Schlereth replaced Gonzalez and walked Matt Wieters ahead of a Cesar Izturis single to center.

The comeback spoiled a second straight solid night for Avila, who hit his second homer in as many games to put Detroit on top in the fifth. Jackson and Brennan Boesch each scored and drove in a run in two-hit performances, while Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez added RBI singles.

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V-Mart a big hit as Tigers roll in home opener

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DETROIT -- Victor Martinez has been to Comerica Park plenty of times over his Major League career. But he had never experienced it like this.

When Martinez was an emerging star as a Cleveland Indian, Detroit was a quick stop across Lake Erie, but obviously never felt like home. The roar he received upon his pregame introduction Friday afternoon changed that. The three-run double he hit in the opening inning, giving the Tigers a lead they never relinquished in a 5-2 victory over the Royals, only echoed it.

He hadn't had many of those here, either -- big hits changing ballgames. Tigers pitching had a lot to do with that, he likes to say. Now that he can cheer for Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander and Rick Porcello rather than hit them, he's hoping to build on that .225 career average here.

He's at least feeling comfortable.

"I always knew coming and playing against them, they had great fans," Martinez said. "And now, being on this side, it just makes you feel good. As a player, that's something you're really looking for. It'll make you go out there and play hard."

It takes a lot to not get cheered at the home opener, but there were cheers that were greater than others. Miguel Cabrera, making his first appearance in Detroit since his off-field issues at the start of Spring Training, received a huge ovation. So did the sunshine once it finally appeared in the fourth inning, a Spring Training tradition veteran Tigers are used to hearing.

Before that, though, came Martinez. It wasn't just his decision to sign a four-year contract to come to Detroit, but his desire to be here, which he has expressed several times since the deal was finalized last November. Martinez received a hint of Detroit's appreciation at TigerFest in January, but got the full experience Friday.

He didn't need long to show what his presence means. Cabrera's one-out walk in the opening inning loaded the bases on Kyle Davies, who had allowed three straight baserunners after starting his outing with an Austin Jackson outing.

Up came Martinez, who lost a potential double Thursday night in Baltimore when umpires couldn't see Adam Jones' bobble off the outfield padding to Nick Markakis. When Davies left a 2-2 fastball over the plate, Martinez left no doubt where his drive to right-center, the same part of the field as Thursday's play, hit on the fence.

"I went up there and looked for a good pitch to hit," said Martinez, who scored two batters later on Jhonny Peralta's double. "Like I say, when you put a good swing on the ball, anything can happen."


Thursday's debated catch fell under the "anything" scenario. Friday's bases-clearing hit was a little more predictable.

"Command was terrible," Davies said. "And when I did throw strikes, they were up and out over the plate."

Making him pay for that, obviously, is why Martinez is here, and why he's batting fifth. They had that presence when Boesch heated up a year ago, then lost it mightily when opponents stymied him. Martinez, obviously, has more of a track record.

"Victor Martinez being here, or a guy like Victor Martinez, it takes a lot of pressure really off the manager," Leyland said, "because you're not answering questions about who you're going to hit behind Cabrera, how you're going to protect Cabrera. So it takes a little bit of the question away for me, to be honest with you. It sounds selfish, but it's true."

Davies' five walks served as evidence as of his command woes, but he somehow kept the run damage limited from there. A pitch off Cabrera's left arm and back-to-back walks to Martinez and Brennan Boesch loaded the bases again with one out in the third, but Davies escaped with a Peralta sacrifice fly, followed by Martinez getting thrown out at the plate on Alex Avila's two-out single.

Another bases-loaded opportunity, this time a two-out rally, went for naught when Nathan Adcock retired Martinez, and the Tigers didn't muster much offense from there. But a big first inning, the level of opening strike they hadn't enjoyed this year, set the theme.

"We gave them a pretty good show in the first inning," Leyland said, "but we didn't do much after that."

Compared with the homer-friendly elements of Yankee Stadium last Sunday, Scherzer welcomed the return to chilly Detroit with open arms, albeit with long sleeves thanks to a first-pitch temperature of 43 degrees. He recovered from Melky Cabrera's third-inning RBI triple to strand the bases loaded in the fourth and last six innings.

"You have 45,000 fans there, and you're going to have more adrenaline," Scherzer said. "They're all pumped up for Opening Day. It's good that Victor comes out and scores in the first inning. I'm able to have a good game. The rest of the pitching staff has a good game. We win the ballgame."

That pitching included the dreaded seventh inning, hours after the Orioles put up a five-spot there. Rookie Brayan Villarreal nearly finished it out himself, picking off Michigan native Chris Getz after a leadoff walk, but three straight bloop singles scored a run and brought up Kila Ka'aihue as the potential tying run. Daniel Schlereth, pitching for the second time in less than 24 hours, induced a ground ball that Will Rhymes deftly fielded in the hole to end the threat.


That, too, drew a good cheer.

"That game didn't have all that great of a feel," Leyland said. "They'd get a guy out there now and then, and we weren't adding on runs. But we did what we're supposed to do. We got it to the eighth inning with our two big guys, and they got the job done."

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Coke solid, but Tigers fall to Royals

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/9/2011 6:40 PM ET

DETROIT -- Phil Coke eventually adjusted to his starting role and tossed 6 2/3 quality innings against the Royals on Saturday. Then he had to adjust to the feeling of no run support.

While Coke recovered from a wild second inning in his first start of the season, Bruce Chen never let the Tigers' offense recover the two runs Coke allowed. Chen continued his mysterious mastery of the Tigers with six innings of three-run, scoreless ball before the Royals' bullpen sealed a 3-1 Detroit loss at Comerica Park.

Ryan Raburn drilled a solo homer with two out in the ninth off Royals closer Joakim Soria to break up the shutout.

Chen improved to 3-1 in five starts against the Tigers since the start of last season. However, compared with the 6.30 ERA he posted against Detroit, Saturday's effort was relative mastery.

With a combination of fastball precision and occasional curveball command, Chen (1-0) kept Detroit hitters off-balance for much of the afternoon. He retired 16 of the first 18 batters he faced, including 10 in a row from the third inning into the sixth.

The Tigers didn't have a runner in scoring position until Will Rhymes ran through it in the sixth and ran into a good defensive play at the plate. His two-out single extended the inning for Magglio Ordonez, whose liner down the left-field line sent Rhymes sprinting around third base.

A quick relay throw from new Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar to catcher Brayan Pena beat Rhymes, whose effort to separate the ball from Pena's mitt didn't work. Manager Jim Leyland argued the call, suggested Pena never made a tag, but replays showed Rhymes' hands hit Pena's mitt.

The Tigers rallied one more time off the Royals' bullpen in the eighth, loading the bases following Jhonny Peralta's single with walks from pinch-hitter Brennan Boesch and Rhymes. But Robinson Tejeda entered and left in one pitch, an offspeed pitch that Ordonez popped up to second baseman Chris Getz.

Coke (0-2) retired 13 consecutive Royals from the second inning into the sixth following a mound visit from Leyland. But with little margin for mistakes, the second-inning control woes that prompted Leyland's visit turned out to be the difference. Billy Butler drew a leadoff walk, advanced on a Jeff Francoeur single and scored on Wilson Betemit's ground ball through the left side.

Left fielder Raburn thought he had a chance to get Butler at the plate, but his high throw allowed Francoeur to advanced to third, where he came home on Escobar's fielder's choice.

Francoeur added an insurance run with a sacrifice fly in the ninth.

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Porcello struggles as Tigers drop finale

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/10/2011 4:00 PM ET

DETROIT -- Rick Porcello became a ground-ball pitcher again Sunday. He did not become a winning one.

Six days after the Orioles lofted one fly ball after another on Detroit's young sinkerballer, Porcello largely kept the ball on the ground, but he couldn't keep the Royals off the basepaths. Melky Cabrera's double and Jeff Francoeur's triple set up two-run Royals innings in the third and fifth, earning Kansas City the rubber-game victory with a 9-5 win Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park.

The loss meant the Tigers dropped two of three for the third time in as many series this season, including the last two rubber games. They welcome the Rangers for three games beginning Monday afternoon.

Two errors behind Porcello didn't help his cause. Ryan Raburn's wayward throw scored Chris Getz and set up Melky Cabrera to come home in the third inning. Another errant throw from Brandon Inge on a ground ball helped further the fifth-inning rally. Nonetheless, the Royals picked apart Porcello's pitches as he struggled to find a rhythm.

Porcello (0-2) worked with runners on base for most of his five innings. While his outs were almost evenly split between ground and air, so were his nine hits. Wilson Betemit had a ground-ball single through the middle and a grounder that skipped off first base and over Miguel Cabrera's head for a leadoff single that set up a run in the fourth.

The most costly pitch Porcello threw arguably was one of his better offerings, a sinker inside at the knees that Francoeur turned and lined deep into the gap in left-center field. He scored Kila Ka'aihue following his one-out single and put himself in position to score on Matt Treanor's ground ball that Inge threw errantly to second.

Betemit went 4-for-4 on the day, including a double off the right-field fence that plated Francoeur in the seventh inning before Alcides Escobar singled him home. Those runs came off Enrique Gonzalez.

That was more than enough runs for Royals starter Luke Hochevar, who gave up three home runs but limited his damage to that. Jhonny Peralta and Alex Avila hit solo homers in the third and sixth before Miguel Cabrera followed a Matt Treanor error with a 412-foot drive to left field for his fourth home run of the season.

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Verlander goes the distance in loss to Texas

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/11/2011 3:25 PM ET

DETROIT -- Justin Verlander continued his stingy start to the season, but Alexi Ogando continued the Tigers' offensive struggles. While Verlander held the red-hot Rangers to one hit over the first six innings, the Tigers produced nothing in support of him, allowing RBI doubles from Michael Young and Mitch Moreland to serve as the difference in a 2-0 loss Monday afternoon at Comerica Park.

The Tigers' third straight loss dropped their record to 3-7, continuing their slowest start since 2008. But it didn't reflect the quality of Verlander's start. Five days after he tossed eight quality innings against the Orioles at Camden Yards, he seemed to have no-hit stuff early on.

A Rangers offense that came to town having scored at least six runs of five of its first nine games could do little early against Verlander, who retired the first 11 batters in order until Josh Hamilton singled with two outs in the fourth. He then retired the next eight batters he faced before Hamilton came back up and drew a one-out walk.

Adrian Beltre's ensuing single put Hamilton in scoring position for Young's drive over right fielder Magglio Ordonez and off the fence. Verlander (1-1) recovered with a slick play to retrieve a comebacker off his leg and fire off-balance to home plate to retire Beltre, but Mitch Moreland lined a shot off the right-field fence to add a big insurance run.

Ogando (2-0) allowed just two singles over seven innings before leaving with fluid under a callus on his right index finger. Miguel Cabrera's fourth-inning double to the left-field fence produced Detroit's first situation with runners in scoring position, moving Brennan Boesch to third with one out for Victor Martinez. But Gold Glove Award-caliber shortstop Elvis Andrus made a backpedaling grab to retire Martinez and double off Cabrera, who took off assuming it would fall.

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Tigers chip away before Cabrera caps walk-off
Detroit manufactures runs, including bases-loaded hit in ninth

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/12/2011 4:26 PM ET

DETROIT -- Jim Leyland took responsibility for the Tigers' slow start Tuesday morning, but he also said they wouldn't stay slow. It took some run manufacturing, a homer-robbing catch, a hold without a pitch thrown and a slew of late moves, but they delivered.

A couple hours after Ryan Raburn's leaping grab at the fence kept the Rangers from pulling away, his two-out walk in the ninth inning loaded the bases and set up Miguel Cabrera in a situation where the Rangers couldn't walk him. Cabrera's single earned the Tigers a 5-4 win and cooled off the Rangers, who still have the Majors' best record at 9-2.

More importantly, it ended a three-game losing streak for the Tigers, whose 3-7 start and inconsistent offense had stirred worries that maybe this team wasn't as good as previously hoped.

Their answer wasn't in a home-run barrage. Instead, the Tigers responded with perhaps their most balanced game of the year, and proof that they don't have to slug the ball to win.

"If we pitch, we'll be right in contention," Leyland said Tuesday morning. "If we don't, we won't. Because I think our offense will be fine."

Their offense did not produce a homer, and it produced just three extra-base hits off Rangers left-hander C.J. Wilson. One of those, moreover, was a bloop double from Casper Wells that dropped behind second baseman Michael Young in short right field. But the Tigers drove in five of the eight runners who reached base on a hit.

Instead of a walk-off homer, Detroit's game-winning rally came together with a Brandon Inge single, an Alex Avila sacrifice bunt and two walks from sidearming Texas right-hander Darren O'Day. The first walk came from Austin Jackson, whose return to the lineup showed much better at-bats than he had lately in his early struggles.

The second walk, from Raburn, came with two outs and left O'Day with no choice but to pitch to Cabrera. Again, O'Day fell behind, forcing him to challenge one of baseball's most dangerous hitters with a 2-1 pitch. Cabrera smacked a sharp grounder through the left side. He had barely touched first base before his teammates mobbed him.


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Inge blast gives Tigers second straight walk-off

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DETROIT -- The Tigers completed a masterful job of pitching against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, using solid outings from Max Scherzer and Brayan Villarreal before Brandon Inge hit a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth for a 3-2 Tigers victory at Comerica Park.

Inge's walk-off shot was the lone home run of the series, which says plenty about how the Tigers held down a Texas team that came into town as an offensive juggernaut. It also ended up as the deciding blow in the rubber game of this closely-matched series.

A game that began as a pitching duel between Scherzer and spot starter Dave Bush became a battle between those two and their pitch counts. Though Scherzer held Texas hitless through two innings, he expended 50 pitches in the process and seemed headed for a quick exit. Instead, he held on to last six innings.

Three straight singles up the middle leading off the top of the sixth put the Rangers ahead with the potential for more after two wild pitches, but Scherzer used back-to-back strikeouts of Mike Napoli and Mitch Moreland to recover.

Miguel Cabrera helped Scherzer out of the sixth by throwing out David Murphy at home plate trying to score when Julio Borbon was caught off first base for the second time in as many days.

Back-to-back doubles from Victor Martinez and Brennan Boesch helped quickly power the Tigers back to even in the bottom of the inning, capped by an Inge sacrifice fly. Mark Lowe, Arthur Rhodes and Darren Oliver combined to retire eight straight before Inge took an Oliver pitch deep to left for his first home run of the year.

Jose Valverde (2-0) earned the win by pitching a scoreless ninth.

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Raburn helps Coke notch first win as starter

By Rick Eymer / Special to MLB.com | 4/15/2011 2:45 AM ET

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Phil Coke once asked a sportswriter if he wanted to wrestle just for fun. Maybe that's why one of his offseason jobs as a chimney sweep in his hometown of Sonora, about a three-hour drive east of the Coliseum, seems, well, ordinary.

Coke performed a different version of sweeping Thursday night, pitching a three-hitter over seven innings to help the Detroit Tigers beat the Oakland Athletics, 3-0, in the opener of a four-game series.

"I wasn't thinking about doing anything except seeing the glove and hitting it," said the charismatic Coke, who spent Spring Training preparing for a spot in the Tigers' starting rotation. "I was staying focused on what my job is, and that's getting out there and getting it done."

He had plenty of local support, including his former boss at the chimney sweep company, who made the trip to witness his first professional start in Oakland.

"His son was here, too," Coke was quick to point out. "I played catch with him during the offseason, and now he's a pretty good pitcher at the high school."

Coke was certainly a role model against the A's. He walked two and struck out two and was conscious of maintaining a good tempo.

"I didn't want anybody on their heels," Coke said. "All night, those guys were breaking it for me. They made big plays to help me out."

He was in a scoreless duel with Oakland starter Gio Gonzalez, who threw six shutout innings of his own before leaving the game with no decision.

"We were going pitch for pitch," Coke said. "I thought, 'That's cool, you and me go nine. Let's do it.' He didn't hurt his ERA either." Ryan Raburn doubled home a run with two outs in the top of the seventh inning to put an end to the collection of zeros. The Tigers managed just two hits against Gonzalez and broke through against Tyson Ross after Gonzalez left because of a high pitch count. Ramon Santiago singled to open the seventh and was sacrificed to second by Austin Jackson. After Casper Wells flew out, Raburn doubled high off the wall in the right-center field alley. "Their guy was as good as I've seen him," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. "He was very impressive. We finally got him out of the game and we got a couple of runs."

Coke made just his third career start in 162 Major League appearances. He made his first start in his final appearance last year and headed into spring thinking he'd be a starter.

After making one relief appearance this year, he was inserted back into the rotation.

"We needed a left-handed pitcher in the rotation, and he had been a starter in the minors," Leyland said. "His demeanor was real good. He seemed much more relaxed."

Coke takes a 12-inning scoreless streak into his next start.

"He just got us out," A's left fielder Josh Willingham said. "He was moving the ball around, a little movement on it, throwing changeups."

Santiago had two hits for the Tigers, who own a season-best three-game winning streak. Jhonny Peralta walked three times, his most in a game since drawing four walks against the Kansas City Royals on May 9, 2006.

Joaquin Benoit pitched a scoreless eighth, and Jose Valverde pitched the ninth for his third save.

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Tigers rally for Leyland's 1,500th victory

By Rick Eymer / Special to MLB.com | 4/16/2011 2:45 AM ET

OAKLAND -- Miguel Cabrera stepped into the limelight at the appropriate moment on Friday night and delivered an award-winning performance.

"We were able to get the big blow from our star," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. "You have to win tough games on the road, and that's what we did."

Cabrera breathed new life into Detroit's offense with a game-tying home run in the top of the ninth inning that eventually forced the game into extra innings.

Brennan Boesch, in a fine supporting role, took advantage with a two-run double in the top of the 10th as the Tigers rallied for seven runs to beat the Oakland Athletics, 8-4, on Friday night to hand Leyland his 1,500th career win as a manager.

"I was just looking for a good pitch to hit," Cabrera said. "I did not have good at bats before that. I was trying to make something happen."

Cabrera improved to 4-for-7, with two home runs and four RBI, against A's closer Brian Fuentes. He has 10 career home runs in 26 games against Oakland, and owns a .344 average against the A's.

Leyland, who became the 19th manager to achieve 1,500 wins, received a few congratulatory phone calls, two bottles of champagne and five cigars for his latest milestone.

"It just means I'm old," he said. "I don't like talking about that. I only got here because of the players who are here today and all the players I've managed over the years. It's always about the players."

Boesch had three hits on the night, as the Tigers won their fourth straight. Brayan Villarreal, who got the final two outs of the ninth, earned his first Major League victory.

Boesch, who played college ball at nearby California, was hitless in his first 14 at bats against the A's.

Rick Porcello delivered a sparkling pitching performance, allowing a run on seven hits over six innings. He walked one and struck out four in the most encouraging outing of the young season for him.

"It wasn't great, but it was better," Porcello said. "After the first inning, I just tried to settle down. My changeup was better. I threw more quality pitches with it and kept it down in the zone. It was a little more effective."

Porcello was born after Leyland had already accumulated 229 wins as a manager, but that didn't stop him from appreciating the moment.

"I'm going to be able to tell my children that I played for Jim Leyland," Porcello said. "He's been around a long time, and I have a ton of respect for him. I'm proud to be a part of it."

The series has highlighted two of the best young pitching staffs in baseball. Detroit's Al Alburquerque, making his Major League debut, became the latest addition. He tossed two scoreless innings.

"Alburquerque gets his feet wet and Villarreal gets his first win," Leyland said. "That's a good win."

Tiger pitchers have not allowed a home run over the last eight games, the team's longest streak since June of 1981.

Brandon McCarthy held the Tigers to six hits, two by Boesch, over his 6 2/3 innings of work. He walked one and struck out seven.

David DeJesus' two-out RBI single in the third was the only run Porcello allowed. He worked out of a couple of early jams and was dominant over his final three innings.

Brandon Inge's drive to right field with two runners on was the closest the Tigers came to scoring before Cabrera's blast cleared the wall in right-center.

Boesch singled to open the sixth, but was wiped out by a double play. All other Detroit hits came with two outs.

Don Kelly doubled with two outs in the fourth, giving the Tigers a double in each of their first 14 games, the longest streak to open a season since 1970.

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Doubles spell doom for Verlander, Tigers

By Rick Eymer / Special to MLB.com | 4/17/2011 12:45 AM ET

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OAKLAND -- Justin Verlander tried to slip something past the umpires and an Oakland hitter on Saturday night. The wild throw that ensued was a microcosm of his evening.

Verlander allowed season highs in runs and hits, and the Athletics took advantage in a 6-2 victory over Detroit, ending the Tigers' four-game winning streak.

Verlander (1-2) gave up four runs (three earned) on eight hits. He walked three and struck out six.

An illegal pitch -- generally reserved for softball games -- was declared when Verlander lost contact with the rubber and let the ball go with a runner on first in the fifth inning. It was officially ruled a balk.

"I went to go pick one and I didn't get my body turned," Verlander said. "The way I thought -- and this was all in milliseconds -- if I just throw it home, they won't call anything."

Verlander delivered a pitch while David DeJesus was in his back swing that wound up skipping along the ground and traveling to the backstop. Daric Barton took a couple of steps off first and stopped. DeJesus tried to claim first base.

"If I throw the ball straight to Victor, maybe they don't call anything," Verlander said. "I saw the video of it and I couldn't help but laugh at myself."

Verlander, who normally does not step backward when making a throw to first base, stepped backward this time. When he realized he wouldn't be able to throw toward first, he tried the next best thing.

"It might be the first time that has happened, in general," Verlander said. "I thought nothing could happen at the plate. It was a weird circumstance. It was funny talking to the umpires. They gave me a hard time about it, too."

After the umpires conferred, a decision was reached and order was restored.

"That was the strangest thing I've ever seen," A's manager Bob Geren said. "It took like six coaches to try to figure out what he did."


The A's were ahead, 3-1, at the time -- thanks to three consecutive doubles and a throwing error in the fourth.

"They ambushed him that one inning, and it cost him," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "We need to do a little more hitting. We can't waste opportunities."

He did not allow a run in the fifth.

"At least I did that right," Verlander said.


Verlander gave up a run-scoring double to Coco Crisp in the sixth, before exiting from the proceedings.

Magglio Ordonez returned to the lineup, getting a hit in four plate appearances. Miguel Cabrera scored the Tigers' first run in the second inning after walking, advancing to third on Victor Martinez's double and scoring on Barton's throwing error.

"We did a poor job of recognizing situational hitting opportunities," Leyland said. "That's something we work on from day one of Spring Training, and it looked to me like we just didn't recognize those situations."

Ordonez will be given Sunday off, with the plan being to give him two games in the upcoming Seattle series.

The Tigers managed three hits off A's starter Dallas Braden, who left the game after five innings with shoulder stiffness.

Detroit didn't fare much better against four Oakland relievers, though Austin Jackson drove in a run in the ninth, an inning where the Tigers loaded the bases with one out.

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Tigers unable to rally after Penny struggles

By Rick Eymer / Special to MLB.com | 4/17/2011 8:18 PM ET

OAKLAND, Calif. -- In retrospect, perhaps the Tigers were lucky to get out of Oakland with a series split.

Casper Wells hit a home run, but that was about all the Tigers could manage against Oakland starter Trevor Cahill on Sunday, as the A's evened the series with a 5-1 win.

The Tigers, who won the first two games in Oakland, scored one earned run in 25 1/3 innings against the A's starters in the series, and that was Wells' homer.

"Look at their numbers," Tigers catcher Alex Avila said. "There are no words to describe it. They've been consistent and they pitch well as a staff."

Cahill, an American League All-Star last season, has an ERA of 2.49, and that ranks him fourth among the A's starters. Only Dallas Braden (3.00) is worse. Oakland's staff owns a 2.59 ERA.

"Right now we're struggling offensively, and you can't say it's just the last two games," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "You don't just win games -- you have to have a little mean streak in you. If you win the first two games, you've got to win another one somehow, some way."

With the exception of Wells' leadoff homer in the sixth, the Tigers never advanced a runner past first base.

"We should have found a way to get a win these last couple of days," Avila said. "It's a little frustrating."

Cahill gave up four hits and struck out nine over eight innings.

"It seemed like no one was putting good swings on the ball," A's third baseman Andy La Roche said. "They were looking pretty foolish at the plate. It's nothing against them, because they have a great lineup, but that just goes to show how outstanding Trevor was."

Brad Penny (0-2) took a small step backward, allowing five runs on four hits over five-plus innings. He walked four and struck out five.

"Penny was OK," Leyland said. "He had control problems in the one inning, but I don't worry about him at all."

Penny had improved in each of his previous two starts, and was on his way to another good effort against the A's.

He retired nine in a row after walking the first batter of the game. The right-hander allowed a run in the fourth inning on Hideki Matsui's RBI groundout, then allowed three runs on two hits, two walks and a hit batter in the fifth.

"I was falling behind a little bit," Penny said. "That's what killed me, because I felt my stuff was better than it has been up to this point. The walks killed me. I had two outs in both innings. That's what hurts."

Landon Powell doubled to open the fifth. Two outs later, Penny hit David DeJesus and walked Daric Barton to load the bases. He walked Conor Jackson on a full count to force in a run ahead of Josh Willingham's two-run single.

"It was off the plate," Penny said of his pitch to Jackson. "It was a ball, too far over."

Penny left the game after giving up Mark Ellis' leadoff double in the sixth. After Ellis came around to score, Brad Thomas, Al Alburquerque and Daniel Schlereth kept the A's off the scoreboard the remainder of the game, but the Tigers failed to muster any offense.

"Our offense had more to do with the way they pitched," Penny said. "They have some good starters over there. They are going to be tough on a lot of teams."

Leyland tried shaking things up with Will Rhymes leading off ahead of Austin Jackson, who has been working on a mechanical issue in his batting stance. Leyland said the move was temporary.

"It's something I'm going to have to battle with until I get comfortable," Jackson said. "I'm doing all the right things and I'm waiting for the results to come through. I keep going out there with confidence."

Detroit catcher Victor Martinez missed the game with a sore groin, and Leyland indicated he would not catch Monday's series opener against the Mariners. He couldn't say if Martinez would be in the lineup.

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Here's Jhonny: Peralta steps up in Tigers' victory
Bases-clearing triple erases memories of pitching duel with Mariners

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/19/2011 3:45 AM ET

SEATTLE -- The Tigers' offense will come around, manager Jim Leyland said again on Monday afternoon. The track records of Detroit's veteran hitters, he says, strongly suggest it, and he looked forward to seeing it happen.

"If we don't hit, I'll be picking with the chickens," Leyland said. "But we'll hit."

He wasn't crowing Monday night over the Tigers' six-run seventh inning to pull out an 8-3 win over the Mariners. One game, Leyland said, doesn't mean their issues are over, notably when some wild pitches accounted for a couple runs. But he wasn't making any plans to clean chicken coops, either.

"I'm not one of those guys that, all of a sudden you do good, so everybody was different," Leyland said. "No, I think we got some pitches and we hit them. We did swing at strikes a little better tonight. I'm not one of those guys that, all of a sudden you get a few hitters, and now you're rah-rah and everything was good tonight. We did fine.

"But like I said, I think we've got something to look forward to, because we've got a track record of hitting. We haven't done much of it to this point, but I'm looking forward to it, because if the guys live up to their track records, we're going to hit at some point."

It took them a while to do it Monday, but they hit. Even if they had pitches to hit, especially with so many three-ball counts, doing something with those pitches was another matter, one they have struggled to handle more than once this season.

They handled it Monday. Miguel Cabrera celebrated his 28th birthday with two singles, three runs scored and a big RBI to help fuel the six-run seventh inning. Brennan Boesch continued his hot start against lefties with two big hits against Seattle southpaw Jason Vargas, including a two-out, sixth-inning double that put Cabrera in position to score the tying run.

Peralta's bases-clearing triple capped the surge in the seventh. He entered the day 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position, then nearly doubled his RBI total on one swing.

"We got some big hits," Leyland said. "It took us a while, but we got them."

The Tigers didn't want to act like it was a big deal to get them. But there was sure a sense they needed this.


"It was nice," Boesch said. "It allows us to relax a little bit in the dugout after that, but you never quit playing. You keep playing hard until the game's over, but a big inning is nice for the team to have some confidence that we can string some runs together, especially late in the game."

Boesch's double sent Cabrera rumbling around third base to score from first once the ball bounced through left fielder Milton Bradley's legs in the left-field corner. The error denied Boesch an RBI, but not the big hit itself.

"You can't really try to pull [the ball against] lefties for the most part. That's just not a good approach," said Boesch, now 4-for-12 off lefties this year. "You're better off not necessarily trying to go to the opposite field, but you just have to stay on the ball. A lot of times when you stay on the ball, you hit the ball the other way. I don't aim anywhere. I just make sure I stay on the baseball."

When Leyland talks about track records, he isn't talking about Boesch, who is looking back on the .342 average he had in the first half of last season more than what happened after. To Boesch, he has shown he can hit in the big leagues.

Boesch's hit left Vargas with a no-decision for his six quality innings, but the relievers who followed had a far worse fate against the middle of Detroit's lineup.

"That seventh inning got ugly there," said Seattle manager Eric Wedge. "[Josh] Lueke and [Chris] Ray just didn't have it today. They got behind, had to come in and that's where it got away from us."

Once Brandon Inge singled, advanced on a well-placed Austin Jackson bunt and scored on a wild pitch from Lueke (1-1) to pull the Tigers ahead in the seventh, the runs piled up from there. Six consecutive batters reached base safely, capped by Peralta's drive to the center-field fence, and five of them scored. All reached three-ball counts.

That included Cabrera, who surprisingly saw a 3-0 pitch over the plate and lined it back through the middle for an RBI single and a 4-2 lead.

"Good birthday," Cabrera said. "We got a win. Hopefully we can win the series here and get ready to get home."

It was the Tigers' second eight-run game in four days, but it was also just their second since they left the season-opening series at Yankee Stadium.

Tigers starter Max Scherzer (3-0) overcame four walks to remain unbeaten through four starts, chipping in his third straight outing of six innings and two runs or fewer.

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Early woes turn to long night for Coke, Tigers
Detroit pitching issues 11 walks, 15 hits as Mariners even series

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/20/2011 3:07 AM ET

SEATTLE -- Phil Coke has proven himself capable of lengthy interviews in the right situations. His remarks Tuesday were short and sweet about a game that was neither for the Tigers.

"We can make this pretty easy," Coke said after the 13-3 loss to the Mariners. "I didn't locate. I dug us a hole early. We weren't able to recover because I didn't give us a chance.

"When you don't give your team a chance to go out there and play the game on the offensive end, everybody gets kind of back on your heels, because it feels like it's not going to end. That's how it felt."


The end didn't seem any closer once he left.

By the time the Tigers retired the Mariners in the bottom of the eighth, they had allowed their highest run total in a game since June and ended up with their largest margin of defeat since that same month.

The Tigers' 11 walks marked their highest total in a nine-inning game since June 14, 2009, when Dontrelle Willis was battling command issues and issued eight free passes. The previous such instance dates all the way back to 1996, the year of a patchwork pitching staff in Detroit.

When Brad Thomas tried to get through the eighth, the Tigers topped the 200-pitch mark for the first time since July 30, when Jose Valverde needed 60 pitches over four outs to finish off the pesky Red Sox. Valverde never quite recovered from that game.

The Tigers will recover from Tuesday, but that didn't make it any easier in the moments after the loss.

"Up here, it's simple. If you walk 11 guys up here and make two or three errors, you're going to get beat," said Tigers manager Jim Leyland. "This is the big leagues. You have to be able to pound the strike zone."

That part is obvious. The mystery, the frustration really, was how Coke could fall into those struggles five days after he threw seven scoreless innings -- needing just 92 pitches to do so -- at Oakland to start off the road trip.

That wasn't simple to explain at all, though Coke said firmly that it had nothing to do with his transition back to starting.

"It's baseball, man," Coke said. "It's one thing after another. You never know what kind of hand you're going to be dealt on any given day. Hopefully, this is the worst one I'll have on the season, and I can put it behind me and not worry about it and go out there and get it done next time."

Leyland had a similar answer, and just as much of a desire to move on.

"Sometimes," Leyland said, "it's just not your day. I think you just turn the page and move on, because it certainly wasn't our day."

With Victor Martinez on the disabled list and Magglio Ordonez out of the lineup to rest his right ankle, the Tigers had little breathing room to fall behind. Leyland said the keys were Coke, who essentially won that low-scoring duel against the A's, along with the top of the batting order.

Tuesday's problem began, Leyland said, with fastball command, and Coke took a while to move on to his other pitches, find some rhythm with his secondary stuff, and go back to the fastball from there. Coke said the problem was pretty much everything, and that the fastball command came about more from the way he was approaching Seattle hitters.

Whatever the plan of attack, Coke's early wildness didn't allow him to put much attack into the plan.

"Honestly, just based on the way the game was called, it seemed like everything to me," Coke said. "It didn't seem like I was effective with anything today. I mean, nobody to blame but myself."

Coke missed the strike zone on eight of his first nine pitches for back-to-back walks to Ichiro Suzuki and Chone Figgins, then committed a critical miscue when he couldn't pick up Milton Bradley's roller between the mound and the first-base line.

A five-pitch walk to Jack Cust brought in Seattle's first run before Coke recovered for back-to-back outs, the latter of them a Brendan Ryan ground ball that plated Figgins. Just as Coke seemed to have found his rhythm, though, he lost Jack Wilson out of a 2-2 count to walk the .188 hitter and load the bases again. Chris Gimenez made him pay with a two-run single, and the Mariners jumped out to a 4-0 lead.

"That was huge," Leyland said. "If he keeps it to two there in the first inning, maybe it's a little bit different. As it turned out, it wouldn't have been, obviously, but you never know. But I thought that was a huge at-bat."

Mariners manager Eric Wedge agreed.

"That was a big start for us," Wedge said. "For Chris to really stick his nose in there and get that big knock for us was a difference maker early."

Three singles and three stolen bases chased Coke (1-3) in the fourth, having allowed six runs on six hits and four walks over 3 2/3 innings. Enrique Gonzalez walked four more batters over 1 2/3 innings, though he didn't allow a run, and Alberto Alburquerque walked two after retiring a pair. Thomas allowed five runs on seven hits over two innings, though he issued only one walk.

In short, it was a night when the Tigers were trying to overcome themselves as much as their opposing hitters. They still had a chance to climb back into the game once three consecutive singles loaded the bases with nobody out in the seventh against Mariners starter Doug Fister.

Alex Avila's one-out walk brought home Miguel Cabrera and brought Brandon Inge to the plate as the potential tying run, but reliever Jamey Wright's first pitch quieted the rally with an inning-ending double play. That kept Fister in line for his first win of the season.

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Porcello shuts down Mariners for series win

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/20/2011 8:56 PM ET

SEATTLE -- Rick Porcello was a 20-year-old rookie when he pitched some big games for the Tigers down the stretch of their division race, including his quietly effective outing in the American League Central tiebreaker amidst the noise of the Metrodome.

Wednesday's 3-2 win over the Mariners wasn't anywhere near that, neither in atmosphere nor importance. Still, it was big on so many levels.

To more than one observer, it was also reminiscent. Eric Wedge, for one, saw this in his last managerial stint in Cleveland.

"I didn't see him at all last year," the first-year Mariners skipper said, "but felt he was very comparable. He throws that power sinker and it really expands left-to-right on the plate and has some consistent down. He threw some good changeups, sliders, mixing things up. He pitched a good ballgame."

He pitched it when the Tigers badly needed it.

Hours after Detroit pitchers walked 11 batters and left their defense and manager standing around Tuesday night, Porcello induced one ground ball after another from Seattle hitters and brought his teammates a burst of energy on a cold Pacific Northwest afternoon.

"When he's rolling, you know he's going to throw strikes," third baseman Brandon Inge said. "Every single pitch, you're anticipating a ball coming at you."

Hours before the Tigers called this West Coast road trip a wrap and boarded their plane home to Detroit, they took the rubber match of this three-game set and this entire seven-game trip. They won a multi-city road trip for just the second time since the start of last season.

"I think it was big to take four and come out above .500 on this road trip," said Ryan Raburn, whose first-inning solo homer gave Detroit a lead it never relinquished. "I think it was a big key. It's a big step for us."

While manager Jim Leyland pondered whether to use off-days Thursday and Monday to push back his young right-hander in the rotation, Porcello gave him something to think about.

"It was a big game for Ricky, and a big game for us," Leyland said.

And while Tigers fans wondered quietly whether Porcello could succeed as a sinkerball pitcher if opposing hitters are looking for his workhorse pitch, he kept Mariners' hitters grounded.

"When they're taking swings like that and they're driving it into the ground, I know I have a heavy sinker," Porcello said. "That gives me a little more leeway to throw that ball a little more often instead of coming in on certain guys. I felt like my sinker was effective today."

Add on a largely effective slider, a high fastball with more life that changed hitters' eye level and forced them to look up, and a changeup that garnered a good share of swings and misses, and Porcello was on. Rarely does he seem to mix ground-ball outs with high strikeouts in the same game, but this was one of those days.

Porcello (1-2) sent down 10 straight hitters through the middle innings, allowing him to escape a two-on, no-out jam in the fourth and carry the momentum through the seventh. All four hits he allowed were singles in the third and fourth innings, and all but one of them were on the ground. He allowed just three fly balls, all outs. It was exactly the remedy for a Tigers defense that was left standing around for long stretches Tuesday night.

"Today they had some chopping ground balls, not the hard ones," Leyland said. "Ichiro [Suzuki] hit one pretty hard, but some of the other ones were chopping ground balls, not real hard. And that's a good sign. That means the sinker's diving a little bit, and not just fading. That's a big difference. In one game, he got some ground balls, but they were hit pretty hard."

Raburn, getting his second start at second base in three days, put Detroit ahead with his second homer of the season, a first-inning solo shot off starter Erik Bedard (0-4). Two-out RBI singles from Miguel Cabrera in the third inning and Brennan Boesch in the fifth padded the lead.

The Tigers had opportunities for more damage, thanks to five walks in as many innings from Bedard, but Porcello made the run support stand. After a walk and two wild pitches put Luis Rodriguez at third base with one out in the seventh, Porcello fanned Carlos Peguero to remove the sacrifice fly opportunity. Ryan Perry, fresh off the disabled list, entered to strike out Jack Wilson and end the threat.

Adam Kennedy drew the Mariners within a run with a ninth-inning solo homer, but Jose Valverde struck out the side, including back-to-back strikeouts with the potential tying run in scoring position for his fourth save of the year.

The Tigers, for all their ups and downs, headed home with a winning road trip and a young starter looking much improved. Quietly, too, they came home believing they're in position to get something rolling more than ground balls off Porcello.

"It was just important today to jump back up," Inge said. "Everyone knew it coming into today, jumping back and getting this last win. That was the only thing on our mind was getting this win, no matter what it looked like. This capped off a pretty good road trip.

"When you go on a West Coast trip, it's tough to play anyway. The weather's been a little cold the whole time we've been out here. But we're on the verge of being able to start clicking and get something good going. There's a few that we need to get going. Win these games, keep ourselves in it, and then everyone starts getting back in there and starts to roll, it's going to be fun. So today was important to keep that rolling."

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Verlander notches 1,000th K in Tigers' win

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/23/2011 12:00 AM ET

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DETROIT -- An evening in the batter's box against Justin Verlander isn't a fun night out for many hitters. Add in a steady drizzle and temperatures barely above 40, and it's downright miserable. Misery had company Friday in the Chicago White Sox, which is exactly how Verlander likes seeing them these days.

After all the fits the White Sox gave Verlander early in his career, it was fitting that they were in the box for Verlander to reach a career milestone with 1,000 strikeouts, the last eight of them in Friday's 9-3 victory. The last of those, A.J. Pierzynski, might have been poignant.

Of all the White Sox hitters who seemingly owned Verlander early in his career, Pierzynski is the one still on the team. He hit two of Chicago's 10 home runs off Verlander in his rookie season of 2006, then went 6-for-16 off him two years later. Those good times might as well have been a decade ago.

Pierzynski swung and missed at Verlander's 117th and final pitch, an offspeed pitch in the dirt, to end the seventh inning. Pierzynski yelled something in frustration at himself. Verlander said nothing, just stared back at him on his way toward the dugout, the crowd roaring.

Since Verlander was watching Pierzynski, he couldn't see the message on the scoreboard behind him about his 1,000th career strikeout. He didn't know about it until he stepped into the dugout and got the ball from head athletic trainer Kevin Rand.

"I said, 'OK, great. What's it for," Verlander said. "A thousand strikeouts? All right. Cool. I'm not really one to follow statistics like that, so I'm glad somebody was paying attention."

He has some game balls for his firsts, from his first Major League victory in 2006 to his first 200-strikeout season in 2009. At age 28, he hasn't really been at the point where he's had career milestones to follow.

He doesn't track those statistics, but don't doubt that he tracks his success against the White Sox. He doesn't have a milestone going on that, but he has a streak. Friday was Verlander's sixth straight victory in as many meetings, all of them quality starts. He hasn't lost to Chicago since 2008, the season before he ascended to the top tier of arms in the American League.

The White Sox beat Verlander four times in five matchups in 2006, to the point that there was a widespread belief that they found Verlander tipping his pitches. They beat him five times in six games in 2008, the exception being a complete-game four-hitter. They've done little against him since.

The difference, Verlander believes, is maturity.

"I think I've turned into a better pitcher," he said. "I think early on in my career, I made a lot of mistakes, kind of like I did to [Carlos] Quentin tonight, and they were able to capitalize on them. But as you minimize those against a lineup like this, you see less and less runs up on the board. Just because their lineup's so good top to bottom, the more mistakes you make, the more opportunities there are to hurt you. So you really have to focus on making your pitches, and I feel like the last few years, I've gotten a lot better at doing that."

It seemed like his focus might have been finely tuned toward this opponent. He usually throws fastballs at 93-94 mph starting out, then gains velocity as the game continues. That was part of his maturation process.

His first two pitches of the night were 95-mph fastballs to Juan Pierre. He struck out Pierre with a 97-mph heater on the ninth pitch of the at-bat. And he never let up. He topped out at 100 mph on a fourth-inning pitch, according to the Comerica Park scoreboard.

"It was up, big time," catcher Alex Avila said of the velocity.

It wasn't just a pitcher trying to get in his innings before the rain might've picked up. It seemed like something more.

"I just felt really good," Verlander said. "Me and [pitching coach Rick Knapp] worked on something with my backswing on my arm, just to get me going a little bit quicker. I think that helped. I felt like the ball was coming out the best it has this season."

Considering Verlander's other outings this month, that's saying something.

Verlander sent down Chicago's first 11 batters in order, striking out two of them, until Quentin connected on a 96-mph fastball for a 427-foot drive to left field with two outs in the fourth for his fifth home run of the season. Quentin came up again leading off the seventh and did the same, this time a 409-foot shot and the first of back-to-back homers. Paul Konerko followed with a drive off the left-field foul pole.

The only other damage against Verlander, however, was a fifth-inning single from Pierzynski. Verlander (2-2) didn't walk anyone and reached relatively few three-ball counts once Detroit's offense gave him a comfortable lead.

"Justin did a good job keeping them off base," manager Jim Leyland said. "That's why the home runs didn't hurt as much."

Once Konerko homered and Adam Dunn worked Verlander for a nine-pitch at-bat that ended in a popout behind first base, the Tigers had two relievers warming. Verlander settled in, racking up back-to-back strikeouts on Alex Rios and Pierzynski. Both came on offspeed pitches out of the strike zone.

The latter made him the 15th Tigers pitcher to reach the 1,000 mark, and the first since Jack Morris.

While Verlander continued his recent success against the South Siders, Mark Buehrle (1-2) gave up more runs than he had against the Tigers since 2007. Jhonny Peralta tripled in a run and scored on a Brennan Boesch sacrifice fly in the second inning, then Ryan Raburn hit a rare opposite-field shot an inning later for his third home run of the year. Avila hit a pair of doubles, driving in Boesch in the fourth and setting up Casper Wells' RBI double in the sixth.

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Bats back Penny's run at history in romp
Tigers shut out struggling White Sox, fueled by big innings

By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/23/2011 10:27 PM ET

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DETROIT -- While Brad Penny's no-hit bid met a closely debated end, the fate of the Tigers' bid to climb over .500 for the first time this season wasn't in question for long.

That, to Penny, was the bigger part of his first win as a Tiger in a 9-0 victory over the White Sox. The no-hit bid was an unexpected subplot.

"I don't plan on throwing one," Penny said. "The most important thing to me is winning the game. Anytime you go out and win, I don't care if I give up 10 hits, I'll feel the same as I do right now. We won the game, and in the end, that's what counts."

So far, the White Sox barely have that many hits through two games of this series. What was anticipated as the Tigers' first real division clash when the schedule came out last fall has turned into a runaway weekend through two games.

Saturday's shutout, the Tigers' first of the season, increased the scoring margin to 18-3 for the series so far. Detroit has outhit Chicago by a 27-11 gap, and hasn't trailed at any point in the series. Moreover, the Tigers haven't trailed at all during this three-game winning streak since their 11-walk debacle at Seattle on Wednesday.

Their last two starting pitchers have retired the first 11 batters they've faced before Carlos Quentin broke up their early bid at perfection -- a home run off Justin Verlander Friday night, and a hit-by-pitch from Penny on Saturday.

Other than three solo homers Friday night, the White Sox haven't scored this series. Considering their swings weren't coming close to clearing the fence Saturday, they were in trouble from the outset.

It wasn't just the outs that Penny racked up over 5 1/3 innings, with Quentin as his lone baserunner in that stretch. It's that very few White Sox came close to a hit. Gordon Beckham got a 2-0 pitch from Penny in the third inning and hit a line drive that forced Austin Jackson to make a running catch in right-center field, one that Penny didn't expect him to make. Two innings later, Will Rhymes and Miguel Cabrera made back-to-back sliding plays to stop ground balls to the right side and set up outs at first.

Other than that, Penny had Chicago's vaunted lineup flummoxed, and usually swinging into early outs.

"He threw strikes, that's the No. 1," Juan Pierre said. "He changed up speeds. I'm not taking anything away from him, he did his job, but collectively we're not swinging the bats."

Penny was well aware of that, and he used it to his advantage. He not only attacked the strike zone early, he did it with a mix of pitches he normally doesn't use. When he had good results from his sinker, he went back to it until they adjusted, which they never did.

"I think they were swinging first, second pitch and getting me out of there quicker," Penny said. "And you kind of expect that going into the game. Not to say anything bad about them, but you know when people are pressing. I've played long enough [to know] they're not going to want to get to the other stuff later in the count. They're going to want to jump on that first pitch, get a couple hits early. So I really concentrated on getting the ball to move a little bit or just missing their barrel."

The one hit was an infield single. The White Sox hit three balls out of the infield against him.

"If they're hitting ground balls with it, I'll throw it every pitch," Penny said. "Honestly, I've probably thrown in my career no more than 10 two-seamers in a game, and tonight I threw probably 80."

Considering he threw just 95 pitches to get through seven innings, that might be an exaggeration. But not by much.

"We were able to locate back and forth, in and out," catcher Alex Avila said, "and that kept them off balance. They are an aggressive team. If you show that you can throw strikes, get ahead of them, they'll start swinging the bats and you can expand the zone, as it is with most teams."

That's the kind of game manager Jim Leyland expected to see from Penny once he got rolling. Leyland said Friday he has seen encouraging signs from Penny, and believes he has pitched better than the 0-2 record and 8.44 ERA he took into Saturday's start. A no-hit bid would've backed that up, but Saturday's results still spoke for themselves.

"I never really look at no-hit stuff like that," Leyland said. "What I was very pleased with was he pounded the strike zone. When you're pounding the strike zone and yet you have the ability to throw a ball if you want to, that's pitching. That's pounding the strike zone and making them mis-hit the ball. That's what he did today."

By the time Morel gave the White Sox something in the hit column, the Tigers were already up 5-0 thanks to a roll of six straight hitters reaching base to lead off the bottom of the fourth. Brennan Boesch doubled and scored on Ryan Raburn's single before Pierre misplayed Jhonny Peralta's line drive to left.

That put a second runner on for Avila, whose hot week continued with a drive off the fence in left-center field, near the deepest part of the park, for a two-run triple. Brandon Inge singled him in and scored three batters later.

Three more runs in the sixth chased former Tiger Edwin Jackson (2-2), who gave up seven earned runs on 12 hits over 5 2/3 innings.

The bottom half of the Tigers order -- Raburn, Peralta, Avila and Inge -- combined for nine of Detroit's 15 hits. Avila went 3-for-4.

"A guy like Edwin, you have to try to get to him early," Avila said. "We had two guys on right from the get-go in the first inning. Second inning, we kept the pressure on. Against a guy like Edwin, you have to be able to do that. If he settles into the game, it's game over. I thought we did a really good job as far as having quality at-bats."

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DETROIT -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland and White Sox hitting coach Greg Walker go back to Leyland's days as a White Sox coach under Tony La Russa, when Walker was a young first baseman on the roster. When they had a chance to talk Sunday morning, they were thinking the same thing.

"Sometimes it's not who you're facing," Leyland said. "It's when you're facing them."

The Tigers have faced struggling White Sox teams before, but rarely have they finished them off like this. On Easter Sunday, Max Scherzer sent them out with goose eggs, tossing eight scoreless innings in a 3-0 win.

It was the Tigers' ninth straight win in the division rivalry, the longest streak they've posted over the White Sox since 1923. But these three games in particular meant more, keeping a struggling team down and pushing Detroit two games over .500 for the first time this year.

The three-game sweep doesn't fittingly describe the Tigers' command of this series. With back-to-back shutouts, Detroit's pitching blanked Chicago's offense for the final 20 innings of the 27-inning set. The 21-3 margin of victory for the series sounds more like a Lions-Bears score across the street.

It was a good time for the Tigers to be facing a struggling White Sox lineup. The flip side, of course, is that the White Sox picked a bad time to run into Tigers pitching.

All three White Sox runs this weekend came on solo home runs Friday night off Justin Verlander. Tigers pitching didn't allow another extra-base hit the entire series, and held the White Sox to an 0-for-9 performance with runners in scoring position. That's impressive for both numbers.

"There's two ways of looking at it," Brandon Inge said. "You can put it as this is a struggling team, but a good team is going to have trouble against those three guys you're throwing out there. In our ballpark, with those three guys pitching, you're going to have trouble winning one."

Combine the stats of Verlander, Brad Penny and Scherzer, and Detroit's three starters scattered three runs on nine hits over 22 innings with 18 strikeouts. They allowed only one hit over the first four innings of the three games combined, a Carlos Quentin home run off Verlander.

One day after Penny took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning, Scherzer didn't allow a hit until A.J. Pierzynski lined a no-doubt single into center field leading off the fifth. On the whole, Scherzer arguably had the strongest outing of the series, scattering four hits over eight innings with seven strikeouts.

Scherzer was coming off three consecutive quality starts, but had gone deep into his pitch count in all of them, including 113 and 112 pitches to last six innings in his previous two outings. On Sunday, he didn't throw his 100th pitch until he retired Brent Morel to lead off the eighth, despite the high strikeout total.

For Scherzer, it was a clinic in quick outs. Aside from three walks, he reached just two three-ball counts. Six of his final eight outs came in two pitches or less, including a six-pitch eighth inning.

"That's what we've talked about, making a little better use of his pitches," Leyland said, "and I thought today, he located some pitches down and away on the outside corner perfect -- just really tough pitches to hit, and particularly put the good part of the bat on the ball. Today, that was the best he's pitched this year."

Considering his success so far this season, that's saying something.

Four weeks ago, Scherzer was talking about having to make adjustments after a debacle of a Spring Training finale against the Orioles. He hasn't lost since. He's the first Tigers pitcher to win his first four decisions since Jeremy Bonderman in 2007, and the first Tiger to do it in April since David Wells in 1993.

The only opponent to beat him so far is the short porch at Yankee Stadium, which welcomed four Yankees home runs in a game Scherzer still won April 3. In four outings since, he has allowed five runs on 24 hits over 26 innings.

This latest outing seemed to be his best.

"My command later in the game really came together," Scherzer said. "Early in the game, it wasn't fully there with my fastball, but I was able to get by because I was still able to throw my offspeed stuff for strikes, keep them off balance. And once I started getting fastball command, that's when I started having good stuff."

White Sox starter John Danks kept pace closely behind him until the Tigers pulled away in the sixth inning. Three straight baserunners leading off the fourth set up an Alex Avila RBI groundout to put Detroit on the scoreboard before consecutive hits from Avila, Brandon Inge and Austin Jackson fueled a two-out rally in the sixth. Inge and Jackson had back-to-back RBI doubles.

"For me, I went up there and I was going to get his cutter off me, because he had thrown some good ones," Inge said. "I just made an adjustment. He could've very easily probably gotten me out if he had changed his ways, but it's one of those things where I'm not going to let him get a cutter in on me again. He threw that same cutter and I was looking for that cutter in this time."

Jackson, whose struggles in the leadoff spot have been well documented, posted his second straight two-hit game.

It was still a quality start for Danks (0-3) with eight strikeouts over six innings, and enough for a win on many days if the White Sox offense is clicking. The combination of a rough stretch for the lineup and a Tigers rotation on a roll didn't allow that.

"Unfortunately, Max Scherzer is pretty darn good," Danks said. "You just have to move on. We aren't going to dwell on it."

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By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 4/26/2011 10:05 PM ET

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DETROIT -- Ryan Raburn's deflection of Miguel Olivo's fly ball from the edge of the warning track over the left-field fence was one of the more bizarre sights for the Tigers in some time.

The sight of the Mariners beating Phil Coke was familiar.

For the second time in a week, the Mariners put up a four-run inning off Coke and sent him to an early exit. Olivo's home run, Justin Smoak's two-run homer and Chone Figgins' two-run triple gave Felix Hernandez all the run support he needed to end Detroit's four-game winning streak in a 7-3 final Tuesday night at Comerica Park.

Will Rhymes walked and eventually scored to give the Tigers their only lead of the night, 1-0, after the opening inning. A few minutes later, Olivo led off the second inning with a drive that sent Raburn running towards the left-field fence near top speed. He made a leaping attempt at a grab at the edge the warning track, but the ball skipped off the heel of his glove and bounced up with enough carry to clear the fence and land in the Tigers' bullpen.

Phil Coke tried to console Raburn in the dugout between innings, but he couldn't retire Olivo once he came back up with two outs in the fourth. This time, his drive to right-center field cleared Austin Jackson for a double. That extended the inning for Smoak, who gave Raburn no chance at an attempt with a shot that hit the back wall of that same bullpen for a 3-1 Mariners lead.

Unlike last Tuesday, when four walks came back to haunt Coke in a four-run opening inning, his command was fine. The Mariners simply slugged their way against the left-hander, who retired just two out of the final nine batters he faced. One of those hits was Figgins' drive over Jackson in center.

Coke (1-4) lasted 4 1/3 innings, allowing seven runs on eight hits. His stat line in two outings against the Mariners totaled 13 runs (nine earned) on 14 hits in eight combined innings. Against all the other teams he has faced, including his brief relief stint to begin the season, Coke has allowed four earned runs on nine hits over 16 innings.

Hernandez (3-2) gladly took it. Five days after his 7 2/3 scoreless innings carried Seattle to a 1-0 win over Oakland, he allowed three runs, two earned, over six innings to climb over .500 in April. Brandon Inge's two-run double was the only other runs the Tigers mustered.

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Verlander, Tigers can't escape early hole

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DETROIT -- The Tigers knew their rematch series with the Mariners would force them to try to beat some better pitchers. They missed Felix Hernandez and Michael Pineda last week at Seattle. They had faced Erik Bedard and beat him.

They hadn't faced this Bedard, though. For that matter, they don't remember facing this Mariners offense, either.

"This one was like the weather -- pretty ugly," manager Jim Leyland said after Wednesday's 10-1 Tigers loss at Comerica Park.

The forecast for Detroit actually improved dramatically as Wednesday went on. The offense never did. Bedard never quite let them up, and Justin Verlander never found the dominant form he enjoyed earlier this month.

A quick night for Bedard set up a long night for the Tigers, and set up his first win in nearly two years. In turn, Bedard put the M's in position for a potential series sweep, and the Tigers back at .500, needing some offense off the hard-throwing Pineda on Thursday afternoon to salvage a victory.

"It is a little frustrating," catcher Alex Avila said, "because we're just way too talented to be playing .500 baseball right now. We need to figure it out, and kind of get things rolling. We show flashes of that, and then we take a couple of steps back.

"As the season goes on, as we can figure things out and kind of gel as a team, then hopefully we can kind of get on a roll, because we're way too talented to be playing like this."

A week after the Tigers made Bedard labor for five innings and 95 pitches in Seattle, including five walks, he came to Comerica Park firing strikes. The Tigers tried to attack him, but did so for just five hits -- nothing more than a double -- over seven innings and 88 pitches.

When asked to explain the difference, Bedard put it simply: "Just throwing strikes. Throwing strikes with my fastball and curveball, and trying to get them off balance."

First-inning doubles from Ryan Raburn and Miguel Cabrera, the latter with two outs, accounted for Detroit's lone run. Bedard (1-4) scattered three singles after that, retiring 10 of Detroit's next 11 batters following Cabrera's double, before sending down his final eight hitters following back-to-back singles from Brandon Inge and Avila in the fifth.

"We were trying to be kind of aggressive with him, and he did a good job of just moving the ball in and out and changing speeds," Avila said. "We hit some balls hard and they made some nice plays. That's the way it goes, sometimes."

Bedard threw first-pitch strikes to 12 of the first 13 Tigers he faced. Some of them took the first pitch, as he worked ahead. Five of them put the first pitch in play, including Cabrera's double and four outs. Two other outs came on 0-1 pitches.

"They were swinging tonight," Bedard said, "so I economized my pitches and got deep into the game."

They had a little more success working counts after that, with both Inge and Avila getting their singles after getting ahead in counts, but couldn't get much out of it.

"Tonight was hard to explain, really," Leyland said. "It was just an ugly night."

The effort allowed Justin Smoak's first-inning, three-run homer off Verlander -- Smoak's second homer in as many nights -- to stand up. It came after home-plate umpire Derryl Cousins ruled that Brennan Boesch had thrown out Chone Figgins at home plate on Miguel Olivo's single, though replays suggested Avila never tagged him.

One night after Smoak sat on a Phil Coke changeup and blasted it, he waited on the heater from Verlander. He didn't miss it once he got it.

"I was just looking for a fastball to hit," said Smoak, who has three homers in as many games against Detroit this year. "He's got overpowering stuff and throws really hard, so you try not to be late on a heater. And I just happened to get one out over the plate."

It wasn't where Verlander wanted the pitch to be.

"Looking back on it, the one mistake to Smoak was really the game, right there," Verlander said. "I tried to go down and away, just got it up maybe six inches from where I wanted it. He put a good swing on it and hit a home run. That's really tough for me, especially after Boesch made a great play out there and gunned down Chone at home.

Verlander lasted six innings and struck out eight, but never quite seemed comfortable on a damp Detroit evening. An ill-advised throw to try to pick off Ichiro Suzuki at second base set up Olivo for a sacrifice fly and an insurance run in the fifth.

The loss closed out April for Verlander (2-3) with a 3.64 ERA, but not the record he would've hoped. Though he has made quality starts in his first six outings, with at least six innings and three earned runs or less, he has lost three of his last four games. They weren't nearly the April struggles Verlander has seen in previous years, and they put Detroit in a position to win more often than not.

"Better," Verlander said, "but not where I want to be. I think every start I have was a quality start, but that's not the expectation that I hold myself to -- and I don't think that's what the city of Detroit holds me to. I need to be better than that. It shouldn't have anything to [do with] the clocks turning to May, but just me getting better. I'm going to work my hardest and do everything I can to be better."

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Offense, bullpen can't pick up Penny

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DETROIT -- This is the kind of game the Tigers feared when the Mariners came to town. While Brad Penny tried his best to keep the Tigers close with seven innings of four-run ball, Seattle rookie Michael Pineda added to his early resume by striking out nine over six innings, sending the Tigers to a 7-2 loss Thursday afternoon at Comerica Park.

The game finished off the Mariners' first sweep in Detroit since 2003, the year before they traded Carlos Guillen to the Tigers. The Mariners put up a 24-6 margin of victory, including nine runs in the eighth inning or later.

The Tigers entered the week coming off a three-game sweep of the White Sox. They left town Thursday back at a game under .500.

"These teams are good up here," Leyland said before the game. "It's all over baseball now. Up here, you have to play good, or you don't win. And I think it shows, pretty much all around baseball right now. I'm not talking about the Tigers. I'm talking all around baseball. Everybody's kind of sparring with .500. Everybody's kind of [winning] two or three, and then lose two or three. That's why it's the Major Leagues."

The Tigers didn't face Pineda when they took two out of three in Seattle last week, but they saw enough from scouting video to know what was in store. His upper-90s fastball was on display, and a chilly, windy day in Michigan didn't make it feel much better when he ran it on hitters' hands.

Pineda struck out the first four Tigers he faced before they doubled on each of the first two balls they put in play against him. After Brennan Boesch doubled and Ryan Raburn walked, Alex Avila turned on a first-pitch fastball and lined it into the right-field corner to plate both of them.

Pineda retired eight straight batters at one point, and Seattle's bullpen shut down Detroit's offense from there. The 22-year-old right-hander stranded two runners in the fifth inning by getting a Magglio Ordonez groundout, then overcame a leadoff walk to Miguel Cabrera in the sixth by striking out Boesch and Avila, with a Ryan Raburn popout in between.

By then, the Mariners had given Pineda a relatively comfortable lead, in no small part due to new cleanup hitter Miguel Olivo. After back-to-back singles from Michael Saunders and Jack Wilson set up two third-inning runs off Penny (1-3), Justin Smoak doubled in Olivo in the fourth. Olivo came back up leading off the sixth and battled out of an 0-2 count to deliver his second home run in three days.

Olivo entered this series batting .167 with no home runs. He finished the series 7-for-13 with six runs scored and three RBIs. Smoak went 4-for-11 with eight RBIs.

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Scherzer shaky late as Tigers fall in ninth

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CLEVELAND -- While the Indians continued their early-season magic, the Tigers suffered the kind of late-inning loss that they haven't had during their April struggles. Carlos Santana's walk-off grand slam completed Cleveland's comeback from what was once a three-run Detroit lead, sending the Tigers to a 9-5 loss Friday night at Progressive Field.

It marked the first time this season that the Tigers lost a game they led after six innings, and the first loss they've suffered in a game tied going into the ninth. It came in a game that they all but commanded for the first five innings.

The Tigers had a 3-0 lead that felt like a much larger gap with their starter, Max Scherzer, cruising through the first five innings, having scattered just two hits in that stretch. Miguel Cabrera's two-run homer in the opening inning and Alex Avila's fourth-inning sacrifice fly had put Detroit in command off starter Jeanmar Gomez, but they had also left four runners in scoring position in that stretch.

Detroit left the bases loaded in the sixth when Magglio Ordonez struck out, but Scherzer retired the first two Indians in the bottom of the inning, part of a stretch of 13 outs in a 14-batter span since the second. Four straight baserunners, including a pair of two-out walks, put the potential tying run in scoring position once Shelley Duncan singled in two.

Scherzer ended the threat, then regained his three-run cushion once Miguel Cabrera and Brennan Boesch singled and scored in the seventh. But a Matt LaPorta home run and a two-out, four-pitch walk to Grady Sizemore put Scherzer back in position to drop the lead.

Manager Jim Leyland went to the mound but stuck with his accomplished starter, opting for instructions rather than a call to the bullpen. Asdrubal Cabrera then jumped a first-pitch fastball and lofted it into the right-field seats for his fifth home run of the year.

That was it for Scherzer, who remains unbeaten but missed out on a chance to become the first Tiger to pick up five wins by the end of April since Frank Tanana in 1988.

After Daniel Schlereth and Ryan Perry picked up two outs apiece, the deciding run came off Joaquin Benoit, who failed to retire a batter while pitching to preserve a tie game in the ninth. Back-to-back singles from Jack Hannahan and Grady Sizemore put runners at the corners with nobody out. An intentional walk to Asdrubal Cabrera loaded the bases and set up a force play at any base.

Benoit didn't need a force out against Shin-Soo Choo, who struck out swinging on three pitches -- the last of them a high fastball. But after missing high on back-to-back fastballs to reach a 3-1 count against Santana, Benoit (0-1) had to challenge the rookie catcher and cleanup hitter, who sent the 94 mph delivery into the right-field seats for his fourth home run of the year.

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