Gary Sheffield's second home run of the night _ a grand slam _ was the 250,000th hit in major league history and the Detroit Tigers beat the Oakland Athletics 14-8 on Monday night.
Sheffield drove in five runs, including his 13th career grand slam. Magglio Ordonez, Miguel Cabrera and Mike Hessman also went deep for the Tigers, who won their third straight.
Rajai Davis and Jack Hannahan each drove in two runs for Oakland, which has lost five of seven.
Both starting pitchers struggled. Zach Miner of the Tigers gave up eight runs and 11 hits in 4 1-3 innings, and rookie Gio Gonzalez (1-4) allowed a career-high nine runs _ eight earned _ and five hits in …
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