Tigers 14, Devil Rays 2 (5/29/07)
Gary Sheffield put on a power display for the hometown fans.
Sheffield homered twice and drove in five runs, and Jeremy Bonderman won his fourth straight start as the Detroit Tigers cruised past the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 14-2 on Tuesday night.
“When you go 0-for-4 and the game’s over, you lost and you go see your family, it’s like `You didn’t do anything,”‘ Sheffield said. “So when you do something, it makes your family proud and then you get more phone calls because when you’re struggling nobody calls you.”
Sheffield, from nearby Tampa, has three homers in the first two games of the three-game series, and 12 overall.
“I am just glad he is hitting for the Tigers,” Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. “He is an offensive force in anybody’s lineup.”