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- Updated: April 28, 2016
DETROIT — Hours after Tigers manager Brad Ausmus shook up his batting order, his offense broke out of its mid-April funk to tie its season high in runs, turning what could have been a Justin Verlander-Sonny Gray pitchers’ duel decidedly in Detroit’s favor during a 9-4 Tigers win on Wednesday night at Comerica Park.
J.D. Martinez and Victor Martinez each hit a three-run homer to power a Detroit offense that had been held to three runs or fewer in six of its previous seven games. Half of the damage, including J.D. Martinez’s homer, came off Gray (3-2), whose 40-pitch second inning led to his early exit after two innings and 65 pitches.
Verlander (2-2) overcame a tape-measure solo homer from Khris Davis to deliver six strong innings before three hits in the seventh denied him a second consecutive seven-inning start.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDJust Delivering at No. 2: J.D. Martinez, mired in a 3-for-26 skid entering the game, moved up to second in Detroit’s batting order and stepped to the plate with two outs and two on in the second inning, with Gray’s command looking wobbly. …
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