Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Magglio Ordonez hit a pair of three-run home runs and scored four times as Detroit crushed Minnesota, 19-3, in the second of three from Comerica Park.
Placido Polanco went 4-for-5 with four runs scored and one driven in for the Tigers, who have won four of their last five and tied a season-high for runs scored, first set on April 23 against Texas.
Gary Sheffield added three RBI while Matt Joyce and Ramon Santiago knocked in a pair of runs each.
Detroit starter Nate Robertson (2-5) had a solid outing for the win, allowing seven hits and three runs over 6 1/3 innings.
"If they keep scoring 19 runs, I'm going to win most of the time," Robertson said. "It worked out good tonight. I felt good and was able to go pretty far and keep the bullpen fresh."
Matt Macri finished 2-for-3 and knocked in a run in his major-league debut for the Twins, who have dropped three of four. Alexi Casilla added a two-run home run.
Boof Bonser (2-6) took the loss by allowing a career-high nine runs on seven hits in three-plus frames.
"It was a bad night," said Twins manager Ron Gardenhire. "We just didn't pitch well and they were wacking everything that we threw up there. We were swinging the bats well, but we just couldn't stop them."
Macri's fourth inning single scored Delmon Young and brought Minnesota within 6-3, but Detroit roared back in its ensuing at-bat, scoring six times -- all with nobody out -- to go up by nine.
Ivan Rodriguez doubled and scored on Bonser's throwing error on a grounder from Santiago. Curtis Granderson's single plated Santiago, and Bonser was lifted for Brian Bass. Polanco followed with a single and went to third on Joe Mauer's throwing error, and he scored when Sheffield doubled. Ordonez finished off the burst with a three-run blast before Bass retired the next three batters.
Sheffield tacked on a two-run single in the fifth to make it 14-3. The onslaught continued as Polanco scored on a dropped third strike after Brandon Inge struck out and Joyce's two-run single pushed the Tigers edge to 17-3. Santiago put the exclamation point on the outburst when he stroked a base hit to score another two.
Aquilino Lopez fanned four while allowing one hit over the final 2 2/3 innings to wrap up the blowout.
Ordonez got the Tigers going in the first with a two-run homer, then Casilla launched his own two-run shot for the Twins in the third to tie the game.
Detroit responded with four in the home half on a two-run double from Ordonez, and back-to-back run-scoring singles from Miguel Cabrera and Carlos Guillen.
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