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DETROIT — Clete Thomas homered with two outs in the ninth to give the Detroit Tigers a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night.
Baltimore led 5-0 with one out in the top of the first, but never scored again. The game was tied at 5 going into the ninth, and Danys Baez (4-5) retired the first two batters, but Thomas hit a 1-2 pitch into the shrubs above the fence in center.
Fernando Rodney (2-2) picked up the win with a scoreless inning of relief.
Neither starter was involved in the decision. Justin Verlander pitched eight innings, allowing five runs and nine hits. Orioles rookie Chris Tillman gave up five runs in six innings.
The Orioles stunned Verlander by scoring the five runs in the first, all before the Tigers could get two outs.
Brian Roberts started the game with a homer, and the next three batters singled to load the bases.
Aubrey Huff made it 2-0 by grounding into a force at second before Ty Wigginton doubled in the third run and Luke Scott added a two-run double.
The Tigers got back into the game with three in the bottom of the first on an RBI double by Placido Polanco and a two-run double by Miguel Cabrera.
In the fourth, Marcus Thames singled, took third on a pair of wild pitches and scored on Ramon Santiago’s single. Cabrera then tied the game in the fifth with his 20th homer.
Rays 10, Royals 4
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Carl Crawford had three hits, three RBis and stole his 49th base of the season, leading Tampa Bay past Kansas City.
Crawford went 3 for 3 against Kansas City starter Zack Greinke (10-7) after having just one hit in 16 previous at-bats against him.
Willy Aybar hit solo homers from both sides of the plate for the Rays, who won nine of 10 games in the season series with Kansas City. Aybar homered left-handed off Greinke in the fifth and went deep from the right side against Ron Mahay two innings later.
Greinke allowed six runs and 10 hits over five innings, and is 0-4 in six starts since his last win on June 28 at Pittsburgh. He is 0-3 in five career games, including four starts, at Tropicana Field.