Tigers Blank Indians 14-0
DETROIT (WWJ/AP)- Alex Aviala had three RBI's to help the Detroit Tigers blank the Cleveland Indians 14-0 on Monday night.
As heard on 97.1 The Ticket - the Tigers scored early and often in the routing of the Indians.
Doug Fister pitched eight strong innings in the win over the Cleveland Indians.
Justin Verlander and Fister, who are scheduled to start the first two games of Detroit's first-round playoff series, are now a combined 14-0 with a 1.61 ERA in 16 appearances since August 16.
Fister, who allowed three singles while striking out nine, has been even better than the Cy Young favorite in the stretch, going 7-0 with a 0.65 ERA in his last eight outings. Fister (11-13), who was picked up in a six-player deal with Seattle on July 30, has now gone 20 innings without walking a batter.
Ubaldo Jimenez (4-4), another pitcher the Tigers looked at before acquiring Fister, gave up six runs on nine hits and three walks in five innings.
The Tigers took a 1-0 lead on Ryan Raburn's RBI triple in the second, then scored three times in the third. With one out, Will Rhymes singled. Jimenez retired Don Kelly, but Dmitri Young and Miguel Cabrera singled to make it 2-0. Victor Martinez walked, loading the bases, and Alex Avila hit a two-run double.
Fister didn't allow a runner on until Asdrubal Cabrera's two-out single in the fourth, and the Indians didn't get a runner into scoring position until Ezequiel Carrera reached second on a single and an error with one out in the eighth.
By that point, Martinez had given the Tigers a 5-0 lead with an RBI double in the fifth, and then scored Detroit's sixth run on Avila's base hit.
The Tigers put the game away with eight runs on nine hits in the eighth, highlighted by a long 3-run homer by Young, another midseason acquisition. Detroit's first seven batters of the inning got hits before Omir Santos, hitting for Avila, struck out.
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