More misery for Indians and Bucs
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CLEVELAND — Carlos Guillen hit two of Detroit’s three home runs to help Rick Porcello and the Tigers defeat Cleveland 11-3 on Wednesday night, the Indians’ season-high 10th straight loss.
Porcello (14-9) allowed one run and six hits over five innings as the Tigers won their third straight. Detroit entered play 21‚Ñ2 games ahead of Minnesota in the AL Central.
Guillen tied a season high with four RBIs. He hit a two-run homer in the third off right-hander Justin Masterson (4-9) and connected on the second pitch from left-hander Mike Gosling to make it 9-1 in the fifth. It was the fourth time in his career the switch-hitter went deep from both sides and his seventh multi-homer game overall.
Miguel Cabrera had a two-run homer, a 440-foot shot into the bleachers in left-center in the fourth, for Detroit.
Porcello walked three and struck out one to go to 3-0 with a 1.80 ERA against Cleveland. The 20-year-old is the youngest pitcher to go 3-0 in a season against the Indians since Milt Pappas of Baltimore in 1958, also at age 20.
The Tigers got four straight hits and took advantage of a throwing error by first baseman Andy Marte to take a 4-0 lead in the first.
The Indians loaded the bases in the first two innings, but scored only one run, on Travis Hafner’s fielder’s choice grounder in the first. Hafner had an RBI groundout in the seventh against Ryan Perry, and Luis Valbuena added an RBI double to make it 11-3.
Masterson dropped to 0-5 in six starts since beating the Los Angeles Angels on Aug. 20.
Reds 12, Pirates 2
PITTSBURGH — Joey Votto went 4 for 5 and scored three runs and Homer Bailey allowed two runs in six innings to lead Cincinnati.
Brandon Phillips, Scott Rolen, Jay Bruce, Laynce Nix and Corky Miller each had two RBIs for the Reds, who have won seven of nine.
The Pirates are 3-22 in their past 25, having lost five in a row. They have allowed 33 runs the past three games.
Pittsburgh’s Andrew McCutchen had two hits and scored a run.