Verlander shines, Detroit wins 6-1

3/20/2011
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander had six strong innings in a spring training baseball game against the Boston Red Sox.
Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander had six strong innings in a spring training baseball game against the Boston Red Sox.
VIERA, Fla. — Justin Verlander pitched six scoreless innings, leading Detroit past the Washington Nationals 6-1 Sunday in a game in which Magglio Ordonez was scratched from the Tigers' lineup because of a sore left hamstring.

Verlander allowed six hits, struck out seven and walked one.

Nationals starter Tom Gorzelanny went five innings, allowing a two-run homer to Don Kelly in the third inning. Gorzelanny gave up four hits overall and struck out three and walked two.

Kelly, who had two hits, replaced Ordonez in the lineup.

Matt Stairs hit a solo home run in the seventh inning for the Nationals. Alberto Gonzalez was 4 for 4 for Washington, with four singles.

The Nationals made four errors and lost their seventh consecutive game.