Detroit visited Texas for the start of a series. The Rangers can score some runs, so wisdom would say that Detroit needs to be able to score some runs to stay in games. As expected Texas did score 7 tonight.
But Detroit scored more. They busted out a season high 13 runs and 18 hits, led by Brennan Boesch's career night. Boesch was 5-6 with 5 RBIs. He hit his 6th and 7th home runs of the season and added an RBI double. Boesch set career highs for hits, RBIs and added his first ever multi-homer game.
Andy Dirks hit a 2-run homer, his 3rd of the season. Alex Avila added his 9th of the season.
Danny worth entered the game as a pinch hitter and delivered a 2 out RBI single. In his next at bat he hit a 2-run double. So Worth was a very efficient 2-2 with his first 3 RBIs of the season.
Miguel Cabrera had an RBI double and Victor Martinez had an RBI sac fly. Austin Jackson was also 3-5 with 3 runs scored. Every Tiger starter had at least 1 hit, and Worth added his 2 off the bench.
Max Scherzer struggled again as he works to find his early season form. He allowed 5 runs on 8 hits in 5 innings of work, but the run support got him his 7th win of the season. It's his first win in almost a month. He's now 7-2. It was the second straight game that the starter wasn't really effective but the offense was able to pick them up for a change and get them a win.
Charlie Furbush surrendered a 2-run home run in 3 otherwise solid innings of relief. Daniel Schlereth got the first 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th and Joaquin Benoit came in to strike out the final batter after Schlereth got in some trouble. So Detroit finally was able to give Valverde a day off.
The Tigers have won 5 of 6 and are now a season high 5 games over .500 and have closed to within 1.5 games of division leading Cleveland.
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