The rebuilt Detroit Tigers dominated the Baltimore Orioles.
Leonys Martin hit his first big league grand slam, Jeimer Candelario had four hits and three RBIs, and the Detroit Tigers beat Baltimore 13-8 Thursday to extend the Orioles’ losing streak to six.
Not bad for a team going with youth following the departures of Justin Verlander, Ian Kinsler, Justin Upton and J.D. Martinez.
“When we got to spring training, we knew that people didn’t recognize our names,” said Martin, who signed as a free agent. “That made it easy for them to think we were going to be bad, but we think we are pretty good players.