Detroit stretched their season high winning streak to 5 games, and 8 of their last 9. The bullpen tried everything to lose it. The offense continuously wouldn't let them.
Detroit was up 5-2. Phil Coke had pitched a pretty nice 5.2 innings, allowing 2 runs, but lost his control a bit in the 6th and got into trouble. I would presume that he started to tire.
Al Alburquerque came in and walked the first batter to load the bases, then struck out a batter to get out of a jam in the 6th. In the 7th he got into his own trouble with walks. Daniel Schlereth came into a 5-3 game with runners on second and third and promptly gave up a 3-run homer that denied Coke his victory.
Detroit came back in the 8th, as Jhonny Peralta hit a 2-run pinch hit homer, his 4th, to give Detroit a 7-6 lead. Peralta pinch hit for Don Kelly, who had come in to play first when Miguel Cabrera got ejected for arguing a called third strike in the 5th.
Joaquin Benoit had a chance to nail it down but couldn't. He gave up the tying run in the bottom of the 8th. But, his 1 run in 1.2 innings of work earned him the victory when Brandon Inge hit a triple in the top of the 9th to score Ramon Santiago. Austin Jackson executed a suicide squeeze to drive in an insurance run.
Benoit earned his first Tiger victory. He's 1-2 on the season. Jose Valverde worked around a walk in the 9th to close out his 8th save of the season.
The final was 9-7. Victor Martinez continued his recent rampage. He was 3-4 on the day, with his 4th homer of the season and 3 RBIs.
Miguel Cabrera had a 2-run double prior to his ejection.
Luckily the offense keeps rolling, and Detroit improves to 20-18, matching a season best 2 games over .500.
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