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After scoring 14 runs in their previous seven games -- six of them losses
-- the Tigers scored 30 in the series against Seattle.
Jeremy Bonderman (3-4) won for the first time in four May starts, allowing two runs and eight hits with two walks in six innings. He struck out two.
Freddy Dolsi picked up his first major-league save with three shutout innings.
Miguel Batista (3-6) fell to 1-4 in his last six starts, giving up five runs
-- four earned -- on seven hits in three innings.
The Mariners had a runner on third with none out in the first but failed to score, and the Tigers went ahead 1-0 on Magglio Ordonez's RBI double in the bottom of the inning.
The Tigers expanded their lead to 4-0 on Inge's three-run homer in the second. Left fielder Jeremy Reed reached over the fence and got his glove on the ball, but his impact with the wall caused the glove to come off his hand and fall into the Tigers bullpen.
The Mariners got a run back in the third on an RBI single by Raul Ibanez, but Edgar Renteria's sacrifice fly restored the four-run margin.
Seattle loaded the bases with no one out in the fifth, but Ibanez hit into a double play to help Bonderman get out of the inning allowing just one run.
The Tigers stranded nine players on base, six of them in scoring position.
Joyce hit a two-run homer -- his fifth in eight games -- to make it 7-2 in the fifth, then made a diving catch to save a run in the sixth.
[Associated Press]
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