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Valverde returns to Tigers with 1-2-3 save

DETROIT (AP) — For the Detroit Tigers, it felt like 2011 again.

Two of the key components of that year’s AL Central division champs reunited Wednesday night to help the Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 7-5. Victor Martinez drove in a pair of runs and Jose Valverde returned to Detroit with a save.

Martinez missed all of last season with a knee injury, and entered the game hitting .182. On a 39-degree night, he was robbed of extra bases by Eric Hosmer in his first at-bat, but he had an RBI double in the third and a run-scoring single in the fourth.

“I felt good out there... and I got...

 
 
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