Inge leads Tigers past Tribe

He homered and drove in three runs in an 8-5 victory over the Indians.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Brandon Inge homered and drove in three runs to help the Detroit Tigers to an 8-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians Tuesday night.

Armando Galarraga (9-4) wasn’t as sharp as his previous start, when he took a perfect game into the seventh inning against Kansas City. The right-hander retired the first nine Indians in order Tuesday before running into trouble in the middle innings. He gave up three runs and five hits over 51‚Ñ3 innings, improving to 3-0 this year against Cleveland.

Galarraga again got good support: The Tigers have averaged 5.6 runs in his 18 starts.

Joel Zumaya, who left Sunday’s game with what the Tigers said was a strained triceps, came on with runners on second and third and one out in the seventh. Throwing seven fastballs clocked at 96 to 99 mph, he got both Franklin Gutierrez and Ben Francisco to pop out to center.

Ryan Garko doubled home a run in the eighth off Zumaya, who then struck out Asdrubal Cabrera with runners on second and third.

Inge hit his eighth homer, a two-run shot off Rafael Betancourt in the eighth. He had an RBI single in the fourth as Detroit built a 6-1 lead off Matt Ginter (1-2) and Juan Rincon.

Miguel Cabrera hit his 18th homer to start the Tigers’ second. Detroit’s other runs all came with two outs.

Edgar Renteria had a two-run double and scored on Inge’s single in the fourth to make it 4-0.

Gary Sheffield, in a 16-for-87 (.184) slump, had a two-run double off Rincon in the fifth, giving him 1,604 RBIs for his career — five behind Hall of Famer Goose Goslin for 28th place all-time.

Grady Sizemore and David Dellucci hit consecutive doubles to get Cleveland within 3-1 in the fourth.

The Indians made it 6-3 in the sixth. Jhonny Peralta tripled home Francisco, who had walked. It gave Peralta seven RBIs in his last four games against the Tigers. Shin-Soo Choo doubled into the right-center gap to score Peralta.

Notes

Indians DH Travis Hafner will attend the funeral of his father today. Hafner, out since May 30 with a shoulder injury, left the club Friday to return home to Sykeston, N.D., where his dad Terry died Saturday at age 64 after a long illness. ... Cabrera is batting .395 (17-for-43) with five homers and 15 RBIs in 10 games against Cleveland. ... Sizemore has hit safely in 15 of his last 16 games, going 22-for-64 (.344).