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DETROIT -- Miguel Cabrera helped the Detroit Tigers finish off their second sweep on a homestand in which they won twice as many games as they lost.Detroit, though, dropped a three-game series against the AL Central-leading Cleveland Indians in the middle of the nine-game stretch at Comerica Park to stunt any sort of celebration.Were in third place, Cabrera said after hitting one of three homers for the Tigers in their 10-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday. We have a long way to go.Indeed.The surging Indians started the day with a 7 1/2-game lead over Detroit and a six-game cushion ahead of second-place Kansas City.You dont want to get swept three games by the team youre chasing, so that was kind of a downside of the homestand, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. But 6-3 is a good homestand.Cabrera hit his 18th homer of the season in the fourth inning, tying Billy Williams at No. 48 on baseballs career list with 426. Cabreras latest shot soared into the seats in left-center in a matter of seconds.Its something you dont see very often and I get to see it every time he hits one, teammate Ian Kinsler said. Its a lot of fun to watch.Steven Moya and Jarrod Saltalamacchia cleared the fence in consecutive at-bats in the fifth, giving Detroit an 8-2 lead.Marlins reliever Dustin McGowan gave up all three homers, matching a career high.The Tigers built a cushion right away with a four-run first, getting two runs on Victor Martinezs single off Tom Koehler.Its always going to be tough when you are behind the 8-ball at the end of the first inning, but we got those two runs in the second and got ourselves right back into the game, Miami manager Don Mattingly said. The problem is that we gave one run back, and that just takes all the momentum away from you. It got sloppy after that.Daniel Norris (1-0) struck out a career-high eight and gave up two runs on eight hits and a walk over five innings.Norris started for the second time this season, replacing Matt Boyd in the rotation after he was sent to Triple-A Toledo earlier this month. Ausmus said Norris will make at least one more start.The Marlins put two on in the first before Norris struck out Marcell Ozuna looking and Giancarlo Stanton swinging to end the threat.With the traffic, the strikeouts became very important, Ausmus said.Koehler (6-7) allowed five runs and eight hits in three innings.I dont think I ever got settled in, he said. Thats a great lineup, and they just made me work for everything I got.Koehler had won three straight, and was coming off five starts in which he lasted six innings each time.Ichiro Suzuki had two hits for Miami, increasing his major league total to 2,988.Martin Prado had four hits for the third time this season for the Marlins.TRAINERS ROOMMarlins: Ozuna, who missed Miamis last two home games with a sore wrist, was able to play in both games against Detroit.Tigers: Moya played after testing a knee injury Wednesday morning that he sustained Friday, leading to him missing the next two games.UP NEXTMarlins: LHP Wei-Yin Chen (4-2) will start for Miami when its road trip continues Thursday night at Atlanta.Tigers: RHP Jordan Zimmermann (9-4) takes the mound for Detroit when it begins a road trip Thursday night at Tampa Bay.Custom Houston Rockets Jerseys . -- Jonathan Drouin gave Halifax the boost it needed to edge host Sherbrooke Phoenix 3-2 in a shootout in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. 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Victor Moses converted a 20th-minute penalty after an Ethiopian handball, and Victor Obinna made certain of Nigerias place in Brazil with his powerful free kick in the 82nd at UJ Esuene Stadium.The San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers might have two of the NBAs most explosive offensive players in Kawhi Leonard and Chris Paul, but defense will be the deciding factor when the teams meet Saturday at the AT&T Center in San Antonio.The Spurs and Clippers traveled to the Alamo City after road victories late Friday night. The Clippers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 99-88 and the Spurs handled the Utah Jazz 100-86, avenging a 110-95 loss to the Jazz on Tuesday in San Antonio.That loss was the first at home for the Spurs this season. It took until its 79th game and its 40th of 41 home games for San Antonio to fall at the AT&T Center last season.The Spurs (5-1), who have been without starting shooting guard Danny Green all season because of a left quad sprain, kept point guard Tony Parker back in San Antonio with right knee soreness. Parker is expected to miss about a week, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told the San Antonio Express-News on Friday.Parker hurt his knee against Golden State (in the season opener on Oct. 25), Popovich said. He hyperextended it and its just bruised basically, so we are giving him time to heal.Parker, who missed an earlier game at home against New Orleans, is averaging 5.5 points and 4.0 assists per game in his four appearances with the Spurs this season. Patty Mills started at the point on Friday at Utah and scored 16 points, hitting six of his first seven shots from the field.Leonard led San Antonio in scoring with 29 points. He has been the Spursscoring leader in all six of their games.In Fridays win over Memphis, Paul tied a season high with 27 points andd led the team in scoring for the fourth time in five games.dddddddddddd Los Angeles also got 21 rebounds from center DeAndre Jordan, almost twice his season average (11.3) entering the game.The Clippers (4-1) are just two points from being undefeated. Theyve enjoyed a 12.5-point winning margin in their four victories, with their only loss on a last-gasp bucket by Oklahoma Citys Russell Westbrook in an 85-83 defeat at home on Wednesday.Los Angeles is shooting 41.5 percent from the floor (tied for 28th) and just 28.9 percent from 3-point range, the latter ranked 26th in the NBA. The Clippers are 20th in offense at 100 points per game and have twice score 88 points or less.I dont think we are worried -- we will eventually break out, Los Angeles forward Blake Griffin said after the loss to Oklahoma City. It is not something we cant figure out. It is early in the season and it is a frustrating loss, but we are going correct our mistakes. We will use this as a learning process.Playing against the Spurs seems like an unlikely scenario for an offensive explosion. San Antonio has allowed just 94 points per game in its six games.The Spurs beat the Clippers two of the three times the teams played in the 2015-16 season, with both teams winning their games at home.Parker became the youngest player to ever appear in a game for the Spurs when he suited up on Oct. 30, 2001, against the Clippers. The 19-year-old Frenchman had nine points and three assists in his NBA debut. ' ' '