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Final Score: Toronto 7 - Detroit 2

Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Rod Barajas finished 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBI as Toronto rolled past Detroit, 7-2, in the opener of a four-game series at Comerica Park.

"I got good pitches to hit and took advantage of mistakes," said Barajas. "Verlander usually owns me,but tonight he got his pitches up."

Alex Rios, Vernon Wells, Matt Stairs and Adam Lind also drove in runs for the Blue Jays, who snapped a three-game slide.

Shaun Marcum (7-5) got the win, going six innings and yielding only eight hits and two runs. The right-hander earned his second consecutive win after going the previous seven without a victory.

Brandon Inge and Miguel Cabrera each homered for the Tigers, whose brief two- game win streak was ended. Starter Justin Verlander (8-13) suffered his fourth consecutive defeat, charged with seven hits and six runs over 4 1/3 frames.

"The last outing, the 130 pitches, no doubt in my mind led to tonight," said Tigers manager Jim Leyland. "There's no doubt in my mind. He just didn't have it. It was kind of a dead-arm night for him, and it was certainly related to the 130-pitch outing. That's why I got him out real early, just to freshen him up for his next start."

Toronto broke open the game in the fifth inning.

John McDonald doubled then Joe Inglett sacrificed him to third. After a walk to Marco Scutaro, Rios singled in a run and left two on with one out. Aquilino Lopez came in for Verlander and uncorked a wild pitch which moved the runners up, then Wells' fly to left scored Scutaro for a 6-1 game.

Barajas led off the sixth with his 10th homer of the season for a six-run Jays edge, and Cabrera answered in the home half with a solo shot, his 24th of the year to make it 7-2.

"We pitched well, got the key hit when we needed it and played solid defense," noted Jays manager Cito Gaston. "This was the kind of game you want to play about 95 times a year."

That was all the offense Detroit mustered, as Brandon League, Scott Downs and B.J. Ryan combined to allow one hit over the final three innings.

Consecutive singles by Wells, Stairs and Barajas to open the second gave Toronto its first run of the contest. Lind's line out to right turned into a sacrifice fly to score Stairs, but Lyle Overbay hit into a double play to end the inning.

A third-inning leadoff homer to left by Inge cut the Tigers' deficit in half, but the Jays scored twice in the fourth on a Stairs RBI single and a Barajas sac fly.