Cleveland 6 at Detroit 0 - Recap

DETROIT -- Carlos Carrasco pitched a four-hit shutout while getting two home runs from Francisco Lindor and one each from Carlos Santana and Yan Gomes on Saturday to help the surging Cleveland Indians to a 6-0 victory that was their eighth straight win overall and eighth in as many games with the Detroit Tigers.

Carrasco (3-2) only saw two Detroit runners get as far as second base -- on doubles in the first and fifth innings -- as he struck out seven and walked one. He threw 117 pitches in his third career shutout.

Anibal Sanchez (4-8) made his first start for the Tigers since being sent to the bullpen after a May 31 start in Los Angeles against the Angels and got off to a rocky beginning before settling in and retiring the last eight batters he faced.

Sanchez gave up four runs in the first three innings, though. He walked two, struck out three and allowed five hits. He is one of three pitchers vying for two spots in Detroit's shaky rotation.

Cleveland jumped on Sanchez right away, getting two solo home runs in the first inning en route to a 4-0 lead.

Santana whacked a hanging 0-1 slider for his 16th home run of the season and third from the leadoff spot. Two batters later, Lindor ambushed a flat 2-1 spitter for his ninth home run of the year.

Lindor added his second of the game and 10th this season in the eighth, a long fly ball to right off Mark Lowe. Lowe also gave up Gomes' home run, his eighth of the season, with one out in the ninth.

Tyler Naquin doubled with two outs in the second and scored on a single to right by Rajai Davis for a 3-0 Indians lead. Cleveland made it 4-0 in the third, loading the bases with two walks and a single and scoring on a fielder's choice groundout to short by Jose Ramirez.

Ramirez made six straight assists on ground balls to third base in the fifth and sixth innings.

NOTES: Indians C Yan Gomes returned to the starting lineup Saturday after missing two games because of a cyst on his back. ... Detroit RF Steven Moya sat out because of right knee soreness. He was replaced by Mike Aviles. ... Cleveland's last winning streak against Detroit longer than seven games from the start of a season was 12-0 season in 1996. ... The final score of Friday night's game was changed from 7-4 to 7-5 when Elias Sports Bureau informed MLB that Tigers 2B Ian Kinsler scored before the final out of a double play that ended the game. It was determined the Indians failed to appeal on the play.