Maybe having Nate Cornejo pitching on three days’ rest is something Alan Trammel ought to consider doing more often. Cornejo, now 2-2 and the only starter on the Tigers’ staff with a .500 record, scattered six hits and one run through seven and one-third innings tonight, leading the Tigers to a 6-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Steve Sparks pitched 1-2/3 scoreless innings in getting his first save of the season, while Jason Johnson took the loss for Baltimore.
The Tigers’ four-run outburst with two outs in the third inning provided the victory as they batted around. Insurance runs came in the seventh with a Dmitri Young fielder’s choice to second that scored Omar Infante, and from a Bobby Higginson single up the middle in the ninth that scored Andres Torres. Young also had two RBIs on the night on a third-inning, two-out double that Orioles LF Larry Bigbie lost in the lights, bringing his team-leading total to 11 on the season.
The win is Detroit’s second in a row, the first time since August 2002 that the Tigers have managed back-to-back wins. Such an inspired streak might have something to do with their recently-discovered offense, which has managed 10 or more hits in four of its last five games and scored 19 runs in its last three.
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