updated 10:05 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2011
CLEVELAND - Victor Martinez drove in three runs and the Detroit Tigers beat Cleveland 10-1 Tuesday night to drop the Indians 8? games back in the AL Central.
Rick Porcello (13-8) was staked to an 8-0 lead after the top of the second inning as the Tigers knocked around Cleveland starter Fausto Carmona (6-14). Porcello gave up three hits and one run over 6 1-3 innings. He allowed only a single to Jason Kipnis in the second before Kosuke Fukudome homered to open Cleveland's seventh.
Detroit has won five straight and is 15-4 since Aug. 19. The Tigers have won their last six meetings with Cleveland after the Indians took six of the first eight.
Cleveland has lost four of six and is 40-54 since holding a seven-game lead in the Central with a 30-15 record on May 23.
The Tigers are seeking their first division championship since 1987, when they were in the AL East. They moved to the Central in 1998, went to the World Series in 2006 as a wild-card team and finished the 2009 regular season tied with Minnesota before losing a one-game playoff for the Central crown.
The Tigers scored five runs in the first off Carmona. Delmon Young drew a two-out walk and Detroit then strung together six consecutive singles. Carmona also committed a balk during the rally. Martinez had two RBIs and Jhonny Peralta, Don Kelly and Ramon Santiago one apiece.
Doubles by Andy Dirks and Miguel Cabrera made it 6-0 with one out in the second. Cabrera had three of Detroit's 15 hits.
Carmona made 41 pitches and yielded eight hits and seven runs in 1 1-3 innings, the shortest start by an Indians pitcher this year and his shortest since getting only two outs on Sept. 9, 2009.
Chad Durbin came on and threw two wild pitches, walked two and gave up a sacrifice fly to Peralta to make it 8-0 before Porcello, who retired the side in order in the first, faced Cleveland cleanup hitter Jim Thome to start the bottom of the second.
Porcello gave up three hits and struck out one to improve to 2-2 in seven starts since Aug. 5. Prior to that, the right-hander had had won five starts in a row. With one walk, it was the 23rd time in 27 starts that Porcello walked two or fewer this season.
NOTES: Cleveland Browns CB Joe Haden and rookie WR Greg Little made ceremonial first pitches. Haden wore a jersey that was half Indians and half Browns with the name "Sizecoy" on the back for OF Grady Sizemore and QB Colt McCoy. ... Tigers OF Brennan Boesch had surgery at Cleveland Clinic to repair a partially torn ligament in his right thumb. Boesch will travel with the team for the rest of the season. ... Indians RHP Carlos Carrasco will have Tommy John surgery on Sept. 14 and likely miss all of 2012. ... Detroit recalled 3B Danny Worth from Triple-A Toledo and Cleveland recalled INF Luis Valbuena from Triple-A Columbus. ... Tigers manager Jim Leyland said he will rest Peralta and Young in Wednesday's game, which starts at noon. Detroit RHP Justin Verlander (21-5, 2.34 ERA) will seek to win his 10th straight start, opposing RHP Justin Masterson (11-8, 2.92 ERA). Masterson is 0-3 with a 5.00 ERA in his career against Detroit. ... According to Elias Sports Bureau, Tigers RHP Doug Fister' three walks and 36 strikeouts over his last five starts is the best ratio over such a span by a Detroit pitcher since LHP Mickey Lolich walked three and fanned 51 in 1971.
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