DETROIT — Nine straight hits to start the third inning was what it took for the Yankees to knock David Price out of Wednesday night's game against the Tigers.
For a team that has scuffled for runs all season the string of hits was as odd as it was effective and combined with Shane Greene's solid outing carried the Yankees to an 8-4 victory in front of a sold-out crowd of 40,876 at Comerica Park.
The win was the Yankees' sixth in seven games and the eight-run third was the most runs in a single frame this season.
It moved the Yankees to within six games of the AL East-leading Orioles who lost to the Rays and to 2 ½ lengths of the Mariners in the race for the second wild-card ticket. The Mariners were dropped by the Rangers.
The last AL team to get nine straight hits in an inning was the 1996 Tigers at Toronto. The Cardinals did it last year against the Pirates.
Derek Jeter had two RBIs in the third when Price was chased after giving up nine straight hits for the first time in his career. The fact that only two of the nine hits — doubles by Jeter and Mark Teixeira — were hard hit didn't make it any easier for Price to swallow.
In two-plus innings Price, the 2012 AL Cy Young winner with the Rays, allowed eight runs, a dozen hits and whiffed three. He is 10-6 lifetime against the Yankees; 1-2 this season.
"Obviously you would love to get a lead on David Price and get on him early,'' manager Joe Girardi said before the game. "It seems like once he gets on a roll he can be pretty tough.''
After Price escaped two serious scoring threats in the opening two innings the large lefty didn't record an out in the third.
Greene improved to 4-1 after two straight no-decisions. His previous win was a 1-0 victory over the Tigers on Aug. 7 at Yankee Stadium when the rookie right-hander went eight innings. In seven innings Wednesday Greene allowed two runs, five hits, walked one, hit one and fanned eight.
Jacoby Ellsbury's hot streak continued with a 2-for-4 game. It was Ellsbury's single and stolen base that started the eight-run third. He has 11 hits in the last 21 at-bats (.524).
Jeter followed with an RBI double, Martin Prado singled, Teixeira doubled home Jeter and five singles by Carlos Beltran, Brian McCann, Chase Headley, Brett Gardner and Francisco Cervelli followed. Enter Blaine Hardy and Ellsbury and Jeter drove in the last two runs with sacrifice flies.
It was the Yankees' biggest inning of the season.
It was impossible to tell the Yankees struggled with runners ignoring position in the first two innings after watching what they did in the third when they went 8-for-9 with eight RBIs.
With runners on first and second and one out in the first, Price fanned Teixeira and Beltran. McCann and Headley opened the second with singles but Gardner forced Headley at second and Cervelli banged into an inning-ending double play.
Greene started the game by walking Ian Kinsler and then retired the following nine batters before Torii Hunter started the fourth with a single to center and scored on Miguel Cabrera's double to left to make it 8-1.
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