Inge, Guillen lead Tigers over Orioles 12-9

Brandon Inge drove in four runs, Carlos Guillen knocked in three and the Detroit Tigers outscored the Baltimore Orioles early, then held on for a 12-9 victory Monday.

Starters Kevin Millwood of Baltimore and rookie Andy Oliver both were gone by the end of the second inning. The Tigers led 8-7 after the third and managed to keep the lead the rest of the way.

Inge, Guillen and Johnny Damon each had three of Detroit's 17 hits. Brennan Boesch was the only starter without one, but became the first Tigers rookie to walk four times in a game since Steve Boros in 1961.

Baltimore's Jake Fox hit the game's lone home run. Matt Wieters had a two-run double off Jose Valverde in the ninth, but the Detroit closer escaped a two-on, one-out jam to end it.

On a 90-degree day, the game's opening two innings took 80 minutes to play and required 145 pitches to get 12 outs.

Orioles pitchers never managed a 1-2-3 inning in just the third major league game in two years where neither starting pitcher lasted two innings. It happened last April 14 between Philadelphia and Washington, and also occurred in an Orioles-Tigers game at Comerica Park on Aug. 17, 2008, when Baltimore's Garrett Olsen and Detroit's Zach Miner got tagged.

Millwood was yanked after allowing five runs in a 45-pitch first inning. He has allowed at least two first-inning runs in eight of his last nine starts.

Oliver gave up six runs — five earned — in 1 2-3 innings. Handed an early 5-1 lead, he gave up five runs in the second.

Eddie Bonine (4-0) got the win despite allowing six hits, including the homer by Fox, in 2 2-3 innings.

Mark Hendrickson (1-4) allowed three runs and six hits in three innings.

The Tigers held their 8-7 edge until the fifth, when Austin Jackson hit an RBI tripe and scored on a single by Magglio Ordonez.

NOTES: Adam Jones made the final out of Baltimore's first two innings, and three of its first four. He singled to lead off the seventh, meaning all 18 starters had reached base via a hit or walk. ... Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya will undergo surgery on July 12 to stabilize a broken bone in his pitching elbow. He will miss the rest of the season with the injury, sustained while throwing a pitch on June 28. ... Damon now has 2,499 career hits. He reached base in the eighth inning on what could have been hit 2,500, but the play was ruled an error on third baseman Miguel Tejada.