Miguel Tejada started one Houston rally in the third and finished one in the eighth Friday, bringing the Astros a 5-4 victory over Detroit. The Tigers jumped to a quick 4-0 lead before Houston began clawing its way back to a second straight victory. Although the Astros are in fifth place in the National League Central and are three games below .500, they are only four games behind division co-leaders St.

Brandon Inge's RBI single in the ninth Monday lifted Detroit to a 5-4 win over the Chicago White Sox in the first game of a doubleheader. Inge finished with two RBI, and Adam Everett added two hits and an RBI for the Tigers.

Rick Porcello allowed a run over six innings Friday and Detroit won its eighth straight game by hanging on in the ninth to down Colorado 4-3. The 20-year-old Porcello (5-3), who made his major league debut April 9, won his fourth consecutive start. He gave up six hits and struck out three before turning things over to the bull pen.

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.

Detroit Tigers said Sunday pitchers Dontrelle Willis and Joel Zumaya will start the 2009 season on the team's disabled list. On their Web site, the Tigers said Willis, a former 22-game winner, was placed on the DL with an anxiety disorder and the hard-throwing Zumaya has a sore right shoulder. Willis said his diagnosis came after followup blood tests. Doctors told him the condition is treatable and that they'll start him on a regimen. This is not depression, he said.