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- Updated: May 7, 2016
DETROIT — Five home runs powered the Rangers to a 10-5 win over the Tigers on Saturday at Comerica Park, as Texas clinched a victory in the three-game series.
The Rangers opened the game with two solo shots from Rougned Odor and Nomar Mazara, and the long balls didn’t stop there, as Adrian Beltre added two more in the sixth and seventh innings. Texas starter A.J. Griffin left the game in the third with right shoulder stiffness, but the bullpen picked him up, allowing two runs over the final 6-plus innings.
Tigers starter Mike Pelfrey seemed to get on track after the two opening homers, retiring 14 of the next 16 batters, but the Rangers jumped on him in the sixth with another long ball, knocking him out after five-plus innings and five runs allowed.
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED Starting with a bang: Odor and Mazara hit back-to-back home runs off Pelfrey in the first inning, with Mazara’s going an estimated 416 feet at 112 mph, according to Statcast™. It was the first time the Rangers had homered back-to-back this year, and the first time to open a game since Rusty Greer and Randy Velarde homered off Cory Lidle in a 13-1 win on April 13, 2001 at Oakland.
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