ROUT!!! Tigers smoke Sox 18-2 to complete sweep

  

DETROIT—Miguel Cabrera homered and drove in four runs, and the Detroit Tigers finished a three-game sweep in emphatic fashion, routing the all but dead White Sox 18-2 on Sunday night.Max Scherzer (14-8) allowed five hits over seven scoreless innings, and Alex Avila had a career-high four hits for Detroit, which leads the AL Central by 6½ games heading into a three-game series at second-place Cleveland. The Sox are 8½ back. Mark Buehrle (11-7) allowed seven earned runs in 3 1/3 innings. The Tigers trailed 8-1 in the fifth Saturday before rallying to win 9-8. They’d scored 26 consecutive runs and led 18-0 Sunday when the White Sox finally scored two in the ninth.