Apr 10, 2019 4 min read

Niko Goodrum and John Hicks were in no mood to wait for a deep count against Trevor Bauer.

“This isn’t the time to be patient against a guy who throwing like that,” Goodrum said. “He threw me a fastball down and in, and I put a good swing on it.”

Bauer allowed home runs to Goodrum and Hicks, who powered Detroit over the Cleveland Indians 4-1 Wednesday for the Tigers’ sixth win in seven games.

Bauer (1-1) gave up four runs and 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings. He had allowed one run and one hit in his first two starts.

Miguel Cabrera singled with two outs in the first, and Goodrum sent the next pitch over the right-field wall.

Hicks homered leading off the sixth for a 3-1 lead, Gordon Beckham doubled with one out, and Josh Harrison singled on a bouncer up the middle to chase Bauer.

“That last ball got pounded into the ground about 800 times and just found a hole,” Bauer said. “I guess I was due for a correction today after the first two starts.”

Matt Boyd (1-1) allowed one run and four hits in six innings with six strikeouts that raised his total to 29 in 17 1/3 innings over three starts.

“Everything is predicated off the fastball,” he said. “When I’ve got a good fastball, it makes all of my other pitches better.”

Shane Greene, Detroit’s sixth pitcher, got three straight outs for his eighth save in eight appearances, ending Cleveland’s five-game winning streak. He became the first big leaguer with eight saves in his team’s first 12 games.

“We’re going to kill Shane if we keep using him like this,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “But he wants the ball in every save situation, and we aren’t scoring enough runs to get any lopsided wins.”

Hanley Ramirez hit an RBI double in the sixth, but Boyd ended the inning by striking out Jake Bauers with runners on second and third.

Joe Jimenez walked the bases loaded with two outs in the eighth. Buck Farmer got pinch-hitter Greg Allen to ground into a forceout.

Gardenhire won his 1,140th game and tied for 50th with Tom Kelly. Gardenhire served as a coach with the Twins under Kelly from 1991-01, then replaced him as Minnesota’s manager.

“I can’t think of a better man to be tied with,” Gardenhire said. “T.K. took me under his wing in Minnesota and taught me so many things, then pushed for me to get the managerial job. I could retire right now, happy I’m next to him in the record book.”

Tampa Bay 9, Chicago White Sox 1: Tommy Pham homered twice and extended his on-base streak to a club record 45 games, leading the Tampa Bay Rays over the White Sox 9-1 for their first series sweep in Chicago.

Austin Meadows had a single, double, home run and three RBI for the Rays, who outscored Chicago 24-7 over three games. Tampa Bay won its four straight game and the AL East-leading Rays improved to 10-3, their best start since 2010. Chicago lost its fifth consecutive game and at 3-8 is off to its worst opening since 1997.

San Diego 3, San Francisco 1: Manny Machado put the San Diego Padres ahead with his third home run of the season in a 3-1 win over the San Francisco Giants.

Signed to a $300 million, 10-year contract, Machado broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning with an opposite-field drive to right on a fastball from Dereck Rodriguez. Machado went 1 for 4 and is hitting .244 with six RBIs. Nick Margevicius got his first major league win. Making his third start, the 23-year-old left-hander allowed one run and five hits in six innings