Tigers activate Miguel Cabrera, on DL since July 3 with calf injury

It was a two-RBI double from Jed Lowrie that capped off the fifth inning to give the Astros a 3-1 lead.

Preston Tucker’s ninth-inning homer forced extras for Houston, which had won 15 of 17 at home prior to Saturday’s loss.

Matt Boyd (1-3, 7.11) hasn’t been as bad as his ERA indicates, which is still swollen thanks to a July 2 disaster against Boston in which he gave up seven runs without recording an out while still with Toronto.

Ian Kinsler led off with a single. We’ll take it.

“He’s not fast. Let’s be honest”, Hinch said. (If you include Alex Avila, it drops to 30 games; the Tigers have had zero games with those three plus Justin Verlander on the active roster at the same time.). We’ll let you know if they ever show up. “I do believe in getting an explanation as to what the interpretation was as to why Gose would or wouldn’t score”.

The Tigers struck first in the fourth inning.

This is the second meeting of the season between the two clubs, with the teams splitting four games in the series.

Verlander passed Barry Zito for 93rd in strikeouts, with 1,884. Cabrera was on the disabled list for the first time in his 13-year career, but did not make a rehab game to prepare for his return to the Big Leagues.

Alfredo Simon pitched 5 innings while allowing 4 Runs and 6 hits. It was the first run off Wilson in 13 outings.

“I was pretty pleased”, McHugh said. “That’s something I would like to clean up if I can”.

Houston is a -146 favorite against Detroit and the Over/Under (O/U) for this game is sitting at eight runs. It was Rondon’s first blown save this season.

“His timing isn’t ideal, but that’s to be expected”, Ausmus said.

“I had a couple coaches that thought Victor would be fine here and there at first”.

He reported no soreness during the game, Ausmus said. Kinsler dived to his right, gloved it and threw Gomez out from his knees. Surprisingly, the Astros are just 33-36 since leaving Detroit at the end of May. The Astros held a pregame ceremony, which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the 2005 World Series team.

Tucker was originally credited with making the catch, but Tigers manager Brad Ausmus called for a review and the ruling was reversed. He made two starts at Single-A Lakeland where he was 0-1 with a 3.52 ERA. Boyd is 1-1 in his previous two starts with Detroit. The Tigers have been reeling all year and sold off their pieces at the deadline in attempt to recoup some value for impending free agents David Price and Yoenis Cespedes.