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Frenzied finale
Members of the Baltimore Orioles surround teammate Nolan Reimold (14) after he scored the winning run in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday in Baltimore. Baltimore won 4-3, and Boston was eliminated from the playoffs after the Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees in extra innings minutes after Boston's loss.

Members of the Baltimore Orioles surround teammate Nolan Reimold (14) after he scored the winning run in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday in Baltimore. Baltimore won 4-3, and Boston was eliminated from the playoffs after the Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees in extra innings minutes after Boston’s loss. / AP

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Orioles hang to the finish in 8-7 loss to Red Sox

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Miguel Cabrera homers, Detroit Tigers beat…

By Noah Trister
AP Sports Writer

Detroit Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera, center, gives a high-five to third base coach Gene Lamont after hitting a two-run home run to left field off Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Brian Matusz in the bottom of the first inning of a baseball game on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, at Comerica Park in Detroit. (AP Photo/Lon Horwedel)

DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera homered and singled, keeping the pressure on in his push for the American League batting title before leaving the Detroit Tigers’ 10-6 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday with lightheadedness.

Cabrera came out after lining out to left field in the seventh inning — a trainer had checked on him in the middle of the at-bat. The slugger began the day one point behind Boston’s Adrian Gonzalez but raised his average from .339 to .341.

Brad Penny (11-11) allowed three runs and five hits in 5 1-3 innings for the win.

Brian Matusz (1-9) gave up six runs and seven hits in five innings.

Assuming he doesn’t pitch again this year, Matusz will finish with a 10.69 ERA, a record high for a pitcher with at least 40 innings in a season, according to STATS LLC. Roy Halladay had a 10.64 ERA for Toronto in 2000.

The Tigers have clinched the AL Central and are now playing largely for playoff position and individual honors. Cabrera hit a two-run shot in the first inning, his 29th home run of the year, and Victor Martinez, Don Kelly and Jhonny Peralta added homers of their own for Detroit.

After Cabrera gave Detroit a 2-0 lead, Delmon Young hit an RBI single in the third to make it 3-0.

Baltimore scored three runs in the fifth to tie it. Pedro Florimon Jr. drove in two of them with a double, his first career hit.

Detroit immediately rallied back. After Cabrera hit a two-out single in the bottom of the inning, Martinez followed with a three-run homer to make it 6-3. Kelly added a three-run shot an inning later.

Nolan Reimold hit a three-run homer in the eighth for the Orioles — an estimated 434 feet to left-center — to make it 9-6. Peralta’s solo shot in the bottom half gave Detroit another insurance run. Continued…

By Noah Trister
AP Sports Writer

Detroit Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera, center, gives a high-five to third base coach Gene Lamont after hitting a two-run home run to left field off Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Brian Matusz in the bottom of the first inning of a baseball game on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, at Comerica Park in Detroit. (AP Photo/Lon Horwedel)

DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera homered and singled, keeping the pressure on in his push for the American League batting title before leaving the Detroit Tigers’ 10-6 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday with lightheadedness.

Cabrera came out after lining out to left field in the seventh inning — a trainer had checked on him in the middle of the at-bat. The slugger began the day one point behind Boston’s Adrian Gonzalez but raised his average from .339 to .341.

Brad Penny (11-11) allowed three runs and five hits in 5 1-3 innings for the win.

Brian Matusz (1-9) gave up six runs and seven hits in five innings.

Assuming he doesn’t pitch again this year, Matusz will finish with a 10.69 ERA, a record high for a pitcher with at least 40 innings in a season, according to STATS LLC. Roy Halladay had a 10.64 ERA for Toronto in 2000.

The Tigers have clinched the AL Central and are now playing largely for playoff position and individual honors. Cabrera hit a two-run shot in the first inning, his 29th home run of the year, and Victor Martinez, Don Kelly and Jhonny Peralta added homers of their own for Detroit.

After Cabrera gave Detroit a 2-0 lead, Delmon Young hit an RBI single in the third to make it 3-0.

Baltimore scored three runs in the fifth to tie it. Pedro Florimon Jr. drove in two of them with a double, his first career hit.

Detroit immediately rallied back. After Cabrera hit a two-out single in the bottom of the inning, Martinez followed with a three-run homer to make it 6-3. Kelly added a three-run shot an inning later.

Nolan Reimold hit a three-run homer in the eighth for the Orioles — an estimated 434 feet to left-center — to make it 9-6. Peralta’s solo shot in the bottom half gave Detroit another insurance run.

The Tigers are 27-9 since Aug. 19 and have pulled away from the rest of the AL Central. They are now hoping to secure home-field advantage in the first round of the postseason.

NOTES: Tigers manager Jim Leyland said second baseman Carlos Guillen (strained right calf) isn’t ready to return yet. … Detroit’s Magglio Ordonez extended his hitting streak to 17 games with a third-inning single. … Baltimore’s Vladimir Guerrero went 0 for 4 and remained tied with Julio Franco for the career lead in hits by a Dominican-born player. Both have 2,586. … The Tigers will send Doug Fister (10-13) to the mound Monday night against Cleveland’s Ubaldo Jimenez (4-3) to begin the final series of the regular season. … Baltimore hosts Boston for three games. The Orioles will send Tommy Hunter (4-4) to the mound Monday night to face Josh Beckett (13-6).

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Tigers Beat Orioles, 10-6, For Split Of Series

Read More: Victor Martinez (DH – DET), Jhonny Peralta (SS – DET), Don Kelly (CF – DET), Miguel Cabrera (1B – DET), Brad Penny (P – DET), Pedro Florimon Jr. (SS – BAL), Nolan Reimold (LF – BAL), Brian Matusz (P – BAL), Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers

Detroit, MI (Sports Network) – Jhonny Peralta, Don Kelly, Victor Martinez and Miguel Cabrera homered to lift the AL Central champion Detroit Tigers over the Baltimore Orioles, 10-6, in the finale of a four-game series.

Brad Penny (11-11) gave up three runs on five hits over 5 1/3 innings for the Tigers, who won two games in the series.

Nolan Reimold hit a three-run homer for the Orioles. Pedro Florimon Jr. drove in two runs.

Brian Matusz (1-9) allowed six runs on seven hits over five innings to take the loss. He struck out five and walked three.

The Tigers jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Cabrera’s homer in the first inning.

Detroit tacked on another run in the third for a 3-0 lead. Brandon Inge walked, moved to third on Magglio Ordonez’s single and scored on Delmon Young’s infield single.

The Orioles scored three runs in the fifth to tie the game. Jake Fox was hit by a pitch and Reimold singled to begin the frame. A wild pitch moved the runners up a base. Florimon knocked in both runners with a double to center. Craig Tatum followed with an RBI single.

Martinez put the Tigers back up by three with one swing of the bat in the home fifth. Singles by Austin Jackson and Cabrera put runners on the corners with two outs. Martinez then cleared the wall in left for a 6-3 lead.

Kelly added a three-run homer of his own in the sixth to make it 9-3.

Reimold erased Kelly’s homer with a three-run shot of his own in the eighth.

Peralta led off the home eighth with a homer to make it 10-6, and Jose Valverde closed the door in the ninth.

Baltimore and Detroit split 10 games this season…Matusz hasn’t won since June 6, losing nine straight decisions…Penny improved to 3-0 versus Baltimore over five career starts.

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Cabrera homers, Tigers beat Orioles 10-6

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Orioles end Verlander’s streak, beat Tigers 6-5

There were 44,846 fans at Comerica Park on Saturday night, and
almost all of them came to see Justin Verlander make history.

Instead, a light-hitting Baltimore Orioles rookie stole the
show.

Matt Angle led off the game with his first major league home
run, then executed a tiebreaking squeeze bunt in the ninth inning
to help the Orioles end Verlander’s 12-start winning streak with a
6-5 victory.

“This was a good night, filled with a lot of firsts,” said
Angle, who also took a shaving-cream pie to the face during a
postgame interview. “I’m going to remember this for a long
time.”

Chris Davis started the ninth with a single off Daniel Schlereth
(2-2). Kyle Hudson ran for him and went from first to third on a
wild pitch that struck out Robert Andino. Angle then laid down a
perfect squeeze to put the Orioles in front.

Managers Jim Leyland and Buck Showalter that the winning play
came down to one veteran manager outguessing the other one.

“Jimmy’s done that to me a million times, which is why he’s one
of the best managers in the game,” Showalter said. “We were lucky.
Very lucky.”

Leyland said he thought Showalter would try the squeeze, but
didn’t know when.

“I suspected it might be coming but, obviously, I didn’t guess
the right pitch,” he said.

Verlander was bidding to become the first pitcher to win 13
starts in a row since Ellis Kinder of the Boston Red Sox in 1949,
according to STATS LLC. The major league record of 21 was set by
the Philadelphia Athletics’ Lefty Grove in 1931.

Verlander broke the previous Tigers record of wins in 11
straight starts, shared by Earl Whitehill (1930) and Hal Newhouser
(1946).

“I haven’t been paying too much attention to the streak, except
when people ask me about it,” he said. “So I’m not worried that it
is gone, and I don’t care that I didn’t get the loss tonight. We
lost. That’s all that matters.”

The Tigers also fell a game back of AL West champion Texas in
the race for the league’s second seed.

The Orioles scored five times in the first three innings. J.J.
Hardy hit a two-run single in Baltimore’s three-run second and Mark
Reynolds added his 37th homer in the third inning.

“He’s human, but it isn’t exactly like we opened him up,”
Showalter said of Verlander. “There aren’t many pitches coming out
of his hand that are easy to hit.”

Verlander’s next start will come in Game 1 of the AL division
series.

“I wasn’t executing my pitches, so I was falling behind guys and
they were taking advantage,” he said. “Hopefully, I’m going to have
five or six more starts this season, and this one won’t have
mattered.”

Pedro Strop (2-1) picked up the win, and Kevin Gregg pitched the
ninth for his 22nd save.

The Orioles almost had an even bigger start, but Austin Jackson
made a spectacular over-the-shoulder basket catch to rob Adam Jones
of extra bases in the second.

Leyland compared it to the most famous catch in baseball history
_ Willie Mays’ grab in the 1954 World Series.

“If you are a baseball fan, you’ve been seeing a catch like that
one for the last 50 or 60 years _ Willie’s catch,” he said. “This
one doesn’t take second place to that one or anything else. That
was just an unbelievable catch.”

Jackson hit an RBI single in the third, and Detroit added two
more in the fourth. Alex Avila drove in Miguel Cabrera with a
groundout, and Jhonny Peralta added a sacrifice fly.

Cabrera hit his 28th homer in the sixth and Peralta added a
tying RBI single against Strop in the eighth, giving Verlander a
no-decision.

NOTES: Verlander has gone at least six innings in 42 straight
starts, including all 34 this year. That’s the longest streak for a
Tiger since at least 1919, passing Hal Newhouser’s streak of 41 in
1944-45. … The game drew the biggest crowd of the season. … The
series finale on Sunday matches Detroit’s Brad Penny (10-11)
against Baltimore’s Brian Matusz (1-8). Matusz enters with a 10.68
ERA, the worst in history by any starter with 10 or more starts. He
would have to pitch 6 2-3 shutout innings to avoid breaking Edgar
Gonzalez’s record of 9.32 in 2004. … Baltimore slugger Vladimir
Guerrero picked up his 2,586th career hit, tying Julio Franco for
the most by a Dominican player.

Not much else going on in the MLB planet today.

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