Broussard sparks Tribe

His two-run double in the eighth helped Cleveland rally past Detroit, 5-3.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Ben Broussard cleared his head, then cleared the bases. Broussard's two-out, two-run double sparked a three-run eighth inning, sending the Cleveland Indians to a 5-3 win over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.
"I just tried to clear my mind and go up there with a purpose," said Broussard, who was mired in a 3-for-34 slump in September. "Thoughts shoot through your head, so the best thing to do is take a deep breath."
Broussard pulled the first pitch he saw from Esteban Yan (2-4) just inside the first-base bag to put Cleveland ahead 4-3. Ryan Ludwick followed with an RBI double that was inches fair down the left-field line to make it 5-3.
Broussard came on as a defensive replacement in the seventh for the Indians, who snapped a three-game losing streak and won for just the fourth time in 12 games.
"It says a lot about a young guy who gets so many big hits," Indians manager Eric Wedge said. "He probably has more big hits for us than anybody."
Pitching
Bob Howry (2-1) gave up Ivan Rodriguez's 18th homer in the top of the eighth, which gave Detroit a 3-2 lead. Bob Wickman worked the ninth for his ninth save in 10 chances.
With Tigers closer Ugueth Urbina still in Venezuela, where his mother was kidnapped Sept. 1, Yan came on in the eighth and blew his eighth save in 11 chances.
Tigers starter Mike Maroth seldom threw a pitch that registered over 83 mph on the radar gun, but held Cleveland scoreless until Ronnie Belliard opened the sixth with his 10th homer, 410 feet into the Indians' bullpen in center. Coco Crisp followed with a single to left and scored from first on a double by Victor Martinez over the head of center fielder Nook Logan.
Casey Blake then grounded a single to center, but Logan threw out Martinez at the plate to keep the score tied at 2.
Maroth gave up two runs and eight hits in seven innings and is now 0-4 in five starts since Aug. 17. He walked one and struck out five.
Brandon Inge put Detroit ahead 1-0 against Scott Elarton with a bloop RBI single in the fourth that extended his hitting streak to 11 games.
Carlos Pena hit his 21st homer, a 423-foot shot to right with two outs in the sixth off David Riske, to make it 2-0.
Tigers third baseman Eric Munson didn't play, but was ejected in the first inning by first-base umpire Jim Reynolds for yelling from the dugout.
Munson and Detroit manager Alan Trammell both protested that Reynolds missed a call when Belliard grounded to shortstop Omar Infante.
Pena took Infante's throw at first, and TV replays appeared to show that he kept his foot on the bag, then pulled it away, and stepped on the base again before Belliard did.