Rookie Jeanmar Gomez can't get past the third against the Tigers, completing a 1-5 trip for the Indians.
With the exception of a first-inning home run from Shin-Soo Choo, Detroit's Justin Verlander had no problem in shutting down the Indians on seven hits over eight innings Sunday at Comerica Park.DETROIT, Mich. -- The Tigers earned some revenge and a sweep Sunday in pounding rookie Jeanmar Gomez and the Indians, 8-1, at Comerica Park.
Gomez beat the Tigers in his big-league debut on July 18. The skinny right-hander completed a four-game sweep for the Indians by holding the Tigers to two unearned runs over seven innings.
Sunday they paid Gomez back. Detroit scored eight runs on 11 hits against Gomez. He was gone after three innings the Tigers completed a three-game sweep. The Indians, who have lost 12 of their last 16 games, went 1-5 on this trip through Kansas City and Detroit.
Gomez (3-2, 3.62) entered Sunday's game have allowed six earned runs in his five big-league starts. The Tigers scored seven earned runs against him.
The win went to Justin Verlander (14-8, 3.65). He gave up a first-inning homer to Shin-Soo Choo and that was it as he left after eight innings with a 8-1 lead.
The homer was Choo's 15th of the season.
The Tigers scored three runs in the first, three in the second and two in the third. Relievers Frank Herrmann, Rafael Perez, Tony Sipp and Chris Perez pitched scoreless ball after that, but it was too late.
The play of the game was turned in by the defensively challenged Indians.
Jayson Nix recorded the second out of the seventh with a great tumbling catch into the photographer's pitch near the Tigers' dugout against Don Kelly. Nix fell over the railing and appeared to land on his head after what appeared to be a six-foot drop. He stuck his glove in the air and third base umpire Ted Barret gave the out sign.
Former Indian Jhonny Peralta drove in three runs against his old team. He had a two-run single in the first and a sacrifice fly in the second.