DETROIT--After previously being swept in three games by Minnesota, the Detroit Tigers have now taken two straight from the Oakland Athletics drilling them 9-1 at home.
Detroit's line-up pounded Dallas Braden (3-5) who was tagged on 9 hits giving up six runs. Miguel Cabrera went 3-for-4 with four RBI, while Ryan Raburn hit a three-run homer in the fifth while scoring twice. Placido Polanco chipped in three hits and two runs.
Tiger's got on the board first when a Gerald Laird double drove in Raburn in the second. The A's would answer in the third after a Ryan Sweeney double was brought in by a Travis Buck single to the right. The throw attempt home was on time, but Sweeney slid past Laird's tag to tie the game.
In the fifth the Tiger's offense exploded scoring five runs. After throwing Cabrera out at first Braden's throw home got past the plate allowing Curtis Granderson to score. Magglio Ordonez followed with a ground-rule double to plate Polanco and, after Brandon Inge drew a walk, Raburn launched a 2-1 pitch over the wall in right to give the Tiger's a 6-1 lead. A Cabrera two-out double in the sixth and another double in the eighth kept the Tiger's cushion big as they finished 9-1.
Rick Porcello (4-3) had his third straight start giving up just a single run on three hits with two walks and five strike outs in six innings. Bobby Seay started with seventh but was quickly replaced by Joel Zumaya who got the next two batters as well as a 1-2-3 eighth inning. Fernando Rodney finished out a perfect ninth to end the game.
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