Three HRs lift Tigers past Indians, 8-5

DETROIT (AP) — Placido Polanco and Carlos Guillen homered on successive pitches and Brandon Inge also went deep, lifting the Detroit Tigers to an 8-5 win over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night.

Aubrey Huff added three RBIs for Detroit, which won its second straight.

Edwin Jackson (11-6) allowed four runs on nine hits in five innings, walking two and striking out six. Fernando Rodney pitched the ninth for his 30th save in 31 chances.

Andy Marte homered for Cleveland.

Carlos Carrasco (0-1), making his major league debut, gave up six runs on nine hits in three innings, walking three and striking out three. Carrasco, who was obtained from Philadelphia in the Cliff Lee deal, allowed all three home runs after being recalled from Triple-A Columbus.

Cleveland took a 1-0 lead in the first on Shin-Soo Choo’s RBI single. It scored Asdrubal Cabrera, who hit a double.

But Detroit bounced back with four in its half. Polanco and Guillen — who has three home runs in the last two games — each hit his ninth homer on back-to-back pitches, Huff singled in a run and Gerald Laird had a two-out RBI double.

Inge’s two-run homer in the third made it 6-1. Huff’s two-out, two-run double in the fourth made it 8-1.

The Indians got three in the fifth to pull to 8-4. Grady Sizemore doubled in two and the other run scored when Guillen was charged with an error in left after catching Choo’s short fly. He dropped it as he began to throw, which allowed Sizemore — who was heading back to third — to score.

Marte’s leadoff homer in the sixth off of Zach Miner made it 8-5. It was Marte’s fourth home run.

Detroit recalled RHP Jeremy Bonderman from his injury rehab assignment (shoulder soreness after surgery) at Triple-A Toledo and activated him from the disabled list. Bonderman, who had been on the 15-day DL, was 0-3 with a 5.79 ERA in 11 relief appearances in Toledo.

The Tigers also recalled RHP Eddie Bonine, RHP Casey Fien, C Dusty Ryan, OF Wilkin Ramirez from the Mud Hens and purchased the contract of SS Brent Dlugach from Toledo.

Cleveland purchased the contracts of OF Michael Brantley and RHP Jose Veras from Triple-A Columbus. Brantley was also in the string lineup in LF and batting ninth. He singled in his second at bat, in the fifth, for his first career hit.

Tigers’ manager Jim Leyland wasn’t sad to see Jim Thome traded from the White Sox to the Dodgers. “I paid for his flight out there,” Leyland said. Thome has 60 career home runs against Detroit.