DETROIT (AP)—Mark Trumbo(notes) homered and drove in a career-high five runs to
lead the Los Angeles Angels over the Detroit Tigers 12-7 on Thursday.
Trumbo also tripled, doubled and scored three times in the rookie’s fourth
three-hit game. Needing just a single for the cycle, he grounded out leading off
the ninth inning.
AP – Jul 28, 3:09 pm EDT
Bobby Cassevah(notes) (1-0) worked 2 1-3 scoreless innings of relief for the win.
Trumbo hit a two-run homer in the Angels’ three-run second. He tripled in
the fourth and doubled in the seventh.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland was ejected in the third for arguing that a pitch
had hit Austin Jackson(notes).
Los Angeles led 7-6 after six innings, then scored five times in the
seventh. Tigers reliever David Purcey(notes) started the inning, but gave up a single
and two walks without getting an out. Phil Coke(notes) came on and allowed a two-run
single to Howie Kendrick(notes) and Trumbo’s two-run double.
After the Angels’ three-run second, the Tigers got a run back in the bottom
of the inning on Miguel Cabrera’s(notes) 22nd homer—a 428-foot drive that landed in
the shrubbery above the center-field fence.
Detroit made it 3-2 on Brennan Boesch’s(notes) RBI single in the third, but the
Angels scored four more in the fourth.
Kendrick started the inning with an infield single and Trumbo followed with
a triple. Peter Bourjos(notes) hit his second double of the game to put Los Angeles up
5-2, a pitch that resulted in Tigers starter Brad Penny(notes) yelling at catcher
Victor Martinez(notes). The two were calmed down by pitching coach Jeff Jones, but
Penny was pulled two batters later after Erick Aybar’s(notes) RBI single.
Penny (7-8) gave up seven runs and nine hits in 3 1-3 innings.
Charlie Furbush(notes) allowed an RBI single to Torii Hunter(notes), making it 7-2, but
the Tigers scored four times in the bottom half.
Jhonny Peralta(notes) and Boesch had RBI singles, while Andy Dirks(notes) drove in two
runs with a base hit.
Wilson Betemit(notes) finished the scoring with a homer off Scott Downs(notes) in the
eighth.
NOTES: Former Tigers closer Fernando Rodney(notes) was booed when he came in to
pitch a 1-2-3 seventh inning. … Tigers reliever Al Alburquerque(notes) did not pitch
after being bothered by a sore elbow during Detroit’s visit to Chicago.
Alburquerque was on the disabled list from June 30 to July 16 with the same
problem.