Carlos Guillen hit two of Detroit's three home runs Wednesday and had four RBI to send the Tigers rolling over Cleveland 11-3. The Tigers, who opened the evening with a 2 1/2-game lead over Minnesota in the race for the American League Central title, captured their third in a row.

Three batters drove in two runs each Saturday, leading the Detroit Tigers to an 8-6 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, their fifth in a row. Placido Polanco hit a solo homer and an RBI single, Carlos Guillen hit a two-run triple and Alex Avila a two-run homer. Marcus Thames and Adam Everett had one RBI apiece

Carlos Pena had three hits, with a homer, and four RBI Monday to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to an 11-7 win over Detroit. Jason Bartlett and Evan Longoria had three hits, Bartlett had a home run and Longoria scored three runs and had an RBI for the Rays, who scored six times in the first inning. James Shields (9-10), who won his second straight start, gave up five runs on 10 hits in seven innings. Carlos Guillen had two home runs and two singles for Detroit, which saw its AL Central Division lead over second-place Minnesota cut to four games.

Gerald Laird and Adam Everett each had two-run doubles in a five-run fourth inning Friday, boosting Detroit to a 6-2 victory over Tampa Bay. Brandon Inge gave Detroit the lead with a solo homer in the second and the Tigers broke things open with their big fourth inning. Rick Purcell (11-8) earned the win with a 5 2/3-inning effort, during which he allowed a run on four hits. Matt Garza (7-9), who had been trying to end a five-start winless drought, gave up all six runs. Garza issued one-out walks in the fourth to Aubrey Huff and Carlos Guillen, then gave up a single to Inge to load the bases. Laird and Everett followed with back-to-back, two-run doubles.

Curtis Granderson hit a two-run homer in a three-run eighth Saturday to power the Detroit Tigers to a 9-7 win over the Cleveland Indians. Adam Everett hit a grand slam homer for the Tigers, who stopped a three-game losing streak.