Tigers drub Shields, White Sox in 7th straight

DETROIT — The Tigers stretched their season-high winning streak to seven games by stretching out one extra-base hit after another against the White Sox. Triples from Andrew Romine and Cameron Maybin fueled a six-run fifth inning before Miguel Cabrera’s two-run homer put away an 11-5 victory Tuesday night at Comerica Park.

The win moved Detroit 10 games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 2014 season. Chicago lost for the fifth time in its last six games, and 13th out of its last 19.

Dioner Navarro’s fourth-inning RBI single and James Shields’ stingy first four innings had the White Sox in line to spoil the Tigers’ winning ways. But after Anibal Sanchez thwarted Chicago’s threat to add on in the fifth, Detroit’s offense backed him up in the bottom half with seven hits, six of them for extra bases. James McCann’s two-run single punctuated the surge.

Cabrera’s third home run in two games was an opposite-field loft off Matt Albers for his 24th homer of the season, six more than last year and one shy of his 2014 total.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDTriples threat: Shields held the Tigers scoreless on two singles through the first four innings, but Romine jumped his first pitch of the fifth inning and sent it for a ride to the center-field wall, putting him on third base for Jose Iglesias’ game-tying sacrifice fly. Two batters later, Cameron Maybin’s shot down the left-field …

continue reading in source mlb.mlb.com