The offense and the bullpen is letting Detroit down these days. Saturday they lost 3-2 in 13 innings. Brayan Villarreal took the loss. He's 1-1 on the season. For the second straight game Clevelend won in walk-off fashion.
Miguel Cabrera hit his 7th homer of the season and Ryan Raburn his 4th to account for the scoring. There were some ugly box scores though. Magglio Ordonez went 0-6 in what has been an ugly season so far. Brennan Boesch was also 0-6. Brandon Inge was 0-5.
Rick Porcello gave up 2 runs on 7 hits, striking out 7, in 7 innings pitched but got no support.
Sunday was another one run loss. Joaquin Benoit surrendered another late lead, for the second time in the series, giving up 3 runs in 0.2 of an inning. He fell to 0-2 on the season, with 2 losses in 3 games. Detroit fell 5-4 to get swept for the second straight series.
Don Kelly was 2-5 with a double and his first RBI of the season. He now has as many RBIs as the guy he replaced in the 3 spot in the line-up, Magglio Ordonez. Magg's RBI was on a groundout, so hell, Kelly actually has an RBI HIT. He's doing better.
Miguel Cabrera and Alex Avila also drove in runs. Phil Coke gave up 3 runs in 6 innings pitched, but the bullpen couldn't hold the lead late.
Yesterday the Yankees came town. The bullpen again failed. Jose Valerde gave up 2 runs, 1 earned, in the 9th to take the loss. Valverde is 2-1 on the year. Detroit lost its 7th straight, 5-3.
Alex Avila hit his 4th and 5th homers of the season. Miguel Cabrera also drove in a run.
7 straight loses. The longest losing streak in the Jim Leyland era.
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