Fausto Carmona gives up 1 run in 6 2-3 innings and Indians beat Tigers 11-1

Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander remained winless in four starts, falling to 0-3. He allowed five runs and seven hits in five innings, with four walks and one strikeout. The loss snapped the Tigers' season-high three-game winning streak.

Carmona (2-1), who walked eight in 3 1-3 innings in his last start against Oakland, gave up seven hits, struck out two and walked one.

Jason Michaels drove in three runs while Garko, Hafner and Jamey Carroll had two RBIs apiece for the Indians, who had lost six of seven. Every Cleveland starter had at least one hit.

The game featured five hit batters _ two by Verlander, two in a row by Carmona and one by Tigers reliever Bobby Seay.

After Verlander hit Garko in the second and Michaels in the fifth, Carmona opened the sixth by hitting Ramon Santiago on the foot. On the next pitch he hit Sheffield in the hip.

Indians manager Eric Wedge, frustrated with his team's play, held a meeting with the players before the game. For one night at least, the meeting paid off.

The Indians scored three times in the second on Michaels' sacrifice fly, Casey Blake's double and Carroll's infield hit.

Garko's homered with one out in the fifth. The Indians broke it open with a five-run sixth off Zach Miner, who gave up the cycle in the space of five batters in the inning. Grady Sizemore led off with a double and scored on Carroll's triple. Hafner followed with his home run. Jhonny Peralta singled with one out. Michaels then drove in two with a single.

Miguel Cabrera's sacrifice fly drove in Detroit's only run in the sixth.

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