Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Detroit 7, Baltimore 5
When: 12:35 PM ET, Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland
Temperature: 60°
Umpires: Home - John Tumpane, 1B - Paul Nauert, 2B - James Hoye, 3B - Bob Davidson
Attendance: 36727

Tigers 7, Orioles 5: Rajai Davis homered and drove in a pair of runs while Miguel Cabrera also had two RBIs as Detroit completed a three-game sweep and won its eighth straight on the road.

Bryan Holaday and Danny Worth both had two hits and an RBI and Don Kelly contributed a run-scoring single for the Tigers, who won the season series 5-1. Justin Verlander (5-2) gave up a season-high five runs - all in the fifth inning - in six frames while improving to 7-0 in eight career starts at Camden Yards.

Nelson Cruz capped the fifth-inning rally with a three-run homer to pace Baltimore, which fell to 5-10 in day games. Orioles prospect Kevin Gausman (0-1) surrendered five runs on six hits in four innings after being recalled from Triple-A Norfolk to start on three day's rest.

Cabrera drove in Holaday and Worth with a base hit in the third and Holaday, Worth and Davis had RBIs in a fourth-inning rally before Kelly's run-scoring hit to center in the fifth made it 6-0. Verlander was unscathed until Adam Jones ripped a two-out RBI single in the fifth and Chris Davis followed with one of his own.

Cruz then launched a drive to left to pull Baltimore within 6-5 before Rajai Davis smacked a solo shot in the sixth to make it a two-run margin and the Detroit bullpen did the rest. Joba Chamberlain escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth and Joe Nathan retired Cruz with a man on in the ninth for his 10th save.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The bottom third of the Tigers' lineup was 5-for-11 with three RBIs and four runs scored. ... Verlander became the first Detroit starter since April 25 to allow more than three earned runs, ending a 15-game streak for the rotation. ... Detroit has a day off before it opens a three-game series at Boston on Friday, while Baltimore begins a four-game set at Kansas City on Thursday.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Detroit   Baltimore
Justin Verlander Player Kevin Gausman
Win W/L Loss
6.0 IP 4.0
4 Strikeouts 2
6 Hits 6
7.50 ERA 11.25
Hitting
Detroit   Baltimore
Bryan Holaday Player Adam Jones
2 Hits 3
1 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 3
.500 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Detroit 9 1 12 .257 11 6 7 3 3 0
Baltimore 9 1 12 .250 15 6 5 5 0 1