Tigers 7, Orioles 5
Rajai Davis homered and drove in a pair of runs while Miguel Cabrera also had two RBIs as Detroit completed a three-game sweep and won its eighth straight on the road.
Bryan Holaday and Danny Worth both had two hits and an RBI and Don Kelly contributed a run-scoring single for the Tigers, who won the season series 5-1. Justin Verlander (5-2) gave up a season-high five runs - all in the fifth inning - in six frames while improving to 7-0 in eight career starts at Camden Yards.
Nelson Cruz capped the fifth-inning rally with a three-run homer to pace Baltimore, which fell to 5-10 in day games. Orioles prospect Kevin Gausman (0-1) surrendered five runs on six hits in four innings after being recalled from Triple-A Norfolk to start on three day's rest.
Cabrera drove in Holaday and Worth with a base hit in the third and Holaday, Worth and Davis had RBIs in a fourth-inning rally before Kelly's run-scoring hit to center in the fifth made it 6-0. Verlander was unscathed until Adam Jones ripped a two-out RBI single in the fifth and Chris Davis followed with one of his own.
Cruz then launched a drive to left to pull Baltimore within 6-5 before Rajai Davis smacked a solo shot in the sixth to make it a two-run margin and the Detroit bullpen did the rest. Joba Chamberlain escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth and Joe Nathan retired Cruz with a man on in the ninth for his 10th save.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The bottom third of the Tigers' lineup was 5-for-11 with three RBIs and four runs scored. ... Verlander became the first Detroit starter since April 25 to allow more than three earned runs, ending a 15-game streak for the rotation. ... Detroit has a day off before it opens a three-game series at Boston on Friday, while Baltimore begins a four-game set at Kansas City on Thursday.