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Yankees Pound Price, Tigers In 13-4 Rout

By NOAH TRISTER
AP Baseball Writer

DETROIT (AP) The New York Yankees scored six runs off David Price in the first inning amid swirling snow flurries, and Mark Teixeira added a three-run homer in the seventh to cap a 13-4 rout of the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.

Price (1-1) allowed eight runs and 10 hits in 2 1-3 innings, his second straight terrible start against the Yankees. Detroit has lost back-to-back games for the first time this season.

Adam Warren (1-1) allowed four runs in the bottom of the first, walking four of the first five batters he faced, but he was fine after that. He ended up allowing five hits in 5 2-3 innings, and New York kept padding its lead. The Yankees (8-7) moved above .500 for the first time this year.

Gregorio Petit hit a three-run double during that first inning, when Price threw 51 pitches on a 38-degree night at Comerica Park.

Price allowed eight runs in the third inning of a game against the Yankees last August. They jumped on him from the start Wednesday. The Detroit left-hander hit Jacoby Ellsbury in the chest with a pitch to start the game, andBrian McCann later opened the scoring with a bases-loaded single.

Price struck out Carlos Beltran for the second out, but Chase Headleyfollowed with an RBI single, and Petit's three-run double made it 5-0.

Ellsbury added a run-scoring single before Price finally got Chris Young - the 11th batter of the inning - on a flyout.

While all that was going on, snow flurries in downtown Detroit intensified a bit, making for an unusual spectacle of white flakes drifting around above the field.

The snow went away after a while, and the Tigers went through their whole batting order in the bottom of the first. Warren issued a bases-loaded walk to J.D. Martinez, and after Yoenis Cespedes hit an RBI single, Nick Castellanos brought another run in by grounding into a force play.

Alex Avila's run-scoring single made it 6-4, but Jose Iglesias popped out to end the inning. It was the first time both teams sent at least nine men to the plate in the same inning since Sept. 28, 2014, according to STATS. The Yankees and Boston Red Sox did it in the seventh that day.

Beltran and Headley hit back-to-back RBI triples in the second, and Didi Gregorius hit a two-run double in the fourth. Teixeira's fifth homer of the season came off Al Alburquerque in the seventh.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Yankees: LHP Chris Capuano (right quadriceps) struck out one in two hitless innings against Toronto minor leaguers in his first extended spring training game. ''No problems,'' Capuano said. ''A little rusty with the pitches.'' Capuano, expected back in mid-May, threw 18 of 24 pitches for strikes. ... RHP Jared Burton (strained lat) allowed one hit during a scoreless inning in his second extended spring game.

Tigers: RHP Joe Nathan (strained right elbow) left his rehab outing with Triple-A Toledo after pitching less than an inning. ''He felt a pop on a fastball,'' Detroit manager Brad Ausmus said. ''The first two hitters went well, then he felt it, thought maybe it was scar tissue, tried to throw another (practice) pitch but it didn't go so well. So we're going to get him checked out.''

UP NEXT

New York RHP Masahiro Tanaka (2-1) takes the mound in the series finale Thursday against Detroit RHP Anibal Sanchez (1-2).

 

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