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The Tigers had won 17 of 20 at Comerica Park before dropping the last two this weekend. "Thats a very good team, and you know they feed off the emotions of that crowd," Showalter said. "Like I just told Jim (Leyland), Im glad they are someone elses problem for the rest of the season." The Tigers jumped all over Wei-Yin Chen (12-7), scoring five times with one out in the first. Omar Infante hit a solo homer, Miguel Cabrera walked and Prince Fielder singled to left before Jhonny Peralta drove a 2-0 pitch over the wall in centre to make it 4-0. Delmon Young singled and scored on Jeff Bakers double before Chen retired two in a row to end the inning. "In the first inning, I was trying to attack the zone, but I couldnt get any first-pitch strikes," he said through a translator. "After that inning, I got stronger, but I still have to thank my teammates for coming through for me. Thats how baseball works. You never know what can happen." Four Baltimore relievers combined for four innings of two-hit ball, with Jim Johnson recording three outs for his 37th save in 40 chances. The right-hander is tied with Gregg Olsen for the second-most saves by an Oriole, behind Randy Myers 45 in 1997. "Our bullpen has been outstanding and thats the key in games like this," Showalter said. "Detroit has great bats and they are doing a lot of great things late in games, especially with those fans cheering them on. Our guys didnt let that happen." The Orioles got back in the game in the second inning against Doug Fister (7-8). Davis connected for his 20th homer, Markakis doubled home a run and Hardy had his big hit that trimmed Detroits lead to 5-4. McLouth, who entered with just four RBIs for the season, put the Orioles in front with two out in the fourth, and Davis drove him in with a base hit. That knocked Fister out of the game, having allowed as many earned runs as his previous five starts combined. "We was just out of whack -- he wasnt good today," Leyland said. "He knows what to do with a lead, but he just wasnt crisp. I just dont think he felt right." Fister allowed eight hits, struck out six and walked three. The right-hander was 6-1 with a 1.97 ERA in his previous eight starts. "Its plain and simple -- I didnt execute," Fister said. "I was very poor at making adjustments and they made me pay for it." Detroit put two runners on with no outs in the seventh but Darren ODay struck out Cabrera on three pitches and got Fielder to bounce into a double play. NOTES: Erik Bedard was the last Oriole to win 12 or more games in a season, picking up 13 in 2007. ... With Chens next win, he will tie Hong-Chih Kuo for the second-most victories by a Taiwanese-born pitcher. Chien-Ming Wang is the leader with 61, and also has the single-season record with 19. Cheap Jerseys China . 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Third baseman Ernest Vasquez and right-hander James Walczak each tested positive for an amphetamine and received 50-game penalties.CALGARY -- Its tempting to believe a Canadian team bolstered by the NHL lockout will dominate the 2013 world junior hockey championships. The 1995 and 2005 editions did so when lockouts those years made all of the countrys best 19-year-old players available to Canada. Neither team lost a game in the tournament. But Canada faces significant barriers on the road to a gold medal this time, not the least of which is the distance the team must go to get it. A Canadian team hasnt travelled this far to a world junior championship since it was held in Moscow in 2001. This years tournament in Ufa, Russia, is another 1,160 kilometres and two time zones to the southeast. Still, Canada will be considered a gold-medal contender again when the tournament opens Wednesday and wraps with the gold-medal game on Jan. 5. Arguably six players on Canadas roster would have played in the NHL this season if not for the lockout. Concerns over how a sudden end to the lockout could impact the lineup during the tournament faded when the NHL cancelled games until Jan. 14. Canada opens against Germany on Boxing Day and also shares Pool B with Russia, Slovakia and the United States. Along with the demanding travel, there are other factors Canada will have to overcome to win gold. The tournament has been held in North America the past four years, but this time Canada wont have the support of the entire building behind them. This Canadian team also lost important players to injury. Ryan Murray would have been a top-two defenceman, but suffered a season-ending shoulder injury prior to selection camp. Forward Charles Hudon injured his back during pre-competition camp in Finland. He was replaced in the lineup by Mark McNeill, who had to be hastily summoned from Canada. Canadas run of 14 straight medals at the world junior championship is the envy of other countries, but so high is the Canadian standard in this tournament that the players consider a silver medal disappointing. After a record-tying run of five straight gold from 2005 to 2009, Canada took silver the next two years and then bronze in the 2012 tournament held in Calgary and Edmonton. The host Russians want that gold medal on home ice after losing it in overtime to Sweden in 2012. Led by Nail Yakupov, the first pick in this years NHL draft by the Edmonton Oilers, Russia won this years six-game Subway Series versus the Canadian Hockey League for just the second time in its 10-year history. Junior teams from Canada and Russia also played a hard-fought, four-game series in August commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1972 summit series. After winning Game 4 in regulation, Canada needed to score in overtime to take the series. Russias inclusion of Yakupov in their summer lineup also indicates how invested the country is in their junior team this year. "Were going to be playing Russia in Russia," Canadian coach Steve Spott said. "We fully see where theyre going and recognize how important that is to them." Russia has access to two goaltenders with previous experience in this tournament. Andrei Makarov of the Saskatoon Blades and Andre Vasilevski both saw ice time for the runner-up in 2012. Both goalies played in Russias 6-5 semifinal win over Canada in Calgary. Canada had no incumbent goaltender this year and emerged from selection camp without a clear No. 1. Their New Yeears Eve tilt versus Russia is the anticipated game of the preliminary round for Canada and one at a reasonable hour at home with a 9 a. Cheap NFL Jerseys. m. ET start. Canadas first three pool games are 4:30 a.m. ET starts. Canada versus the U.S., on Dec. 30 is a significant game too. The Americans will be motivated to improve on their seventh-place result in 2012. Theres always plenty of ill will and trash talking between the two countries. The players know each other well and are club teammates in some cases. But if the Dec. 31 game against Russia determines first place in Pool B, Canada needs the win to get the bye to the semifinal and the extra days rest. The wider European ice surface will drain Canadas legs. The Swedes and Finns in Pool A pose significant challenges as well. The defending champion Swedes will have half a dozen players back from their gold-medal squad and the same coach behind their bench. Its easy to forget how close the Finns were to playing for gold in Alberta and theyll have as many as 10 returnees. They were up 2-0 on the Swedes in the semifinal, but fell 3-2 in overtime. While the returning Canadian players may feel they have a score to settle with Russia after the semifinal loss in Calgary, Spott says there are other threats in the tournament. "For me, I look at the Americans and the Swedes and the Russians," he said. "I put those guys collectively in the same group. "Theyre world-class teams and world-class countries and I have respect for all of them." The Czech Republic, Switzerland and Latvia round out Pool A. The winner in each pool gets the bye to the semifinal while the runner-up crosses over to meet the other pools third seed in the quarter-final. The bottom two countries in each pool fall to the relegation tournament. Canada lacked depth at centre in 2012, but that position is the strength of the 2013 team thanks to the lockout. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins of the Edmonton Oilers, Ryan Strome and Boone Jenner are premiere centres. Canada is so deep up the middle that Mark Scheifele is being asked to convert to right-wing on the top line. Nugent-Hopkins, Scheifele and Jonathan Huberdeau give Canada an elite first line. There are scoring threats on all four lines, including 17-year-old forwards Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin. While making the Canadian team in a lockout year speaks to the talent of MacKinnon and Drouin, it also reflects a lack of talent depth among Canadas 19-year-old forwards born in 1993. Led by Dougie Hamilton and Scott Harrington, Canada does have enough depth on defence to compensate for the loss of Murray. Whether its Malcolm Subban or Jordan Binnington who gets the nod as starting goaltender, Canada has won gold in the past because the goaltender makes saves hes not supposed to and his confident body language helps his teammates play freely in front of them. Even though Canadas world junior games arent at viewer-friendly times at home, hockey fans starved for high-quality games should keep the interest high. After three years without gold and with the weapons they have on their team, Canadas players are aware of the high expectations on them in Ufa. "Theres going to be a lot of attention," Scheifele predicted. "I think that extra public pressure definitely adds motivation to everyones fire." 13:07ET 21-12-12 ' ' '


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