DETROIT -- Joel Pineiro came forwar...

DETROIT -- Joel Pineiro came forward after a long rain delay and worked 3* innings of exquisite relief, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 4-3 victory athwart the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night.

The win was just Seattle's other in its last 16 road games. Detroit has wasted nine of 13 and leads Minnesota on only four games in the AL Central. The Tigers had a 10-game margin in the division Aug. 8

Pineiro (8-11) retired all 11 batters he faced after he inserted the 3-3 game to start the fifth inning after a 1 hour, 23-minute rain delay. He struck on the outside four.

"He was great," Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson said. "But we're going to be facing a fate of great pitchers from here onward in, and we have to find a way to hit them."

JJ Putz got the final four revealeds for his 30th save. The first batter he faced, Magglio Ordonez, reached in succession an infield single but tried to advance in succession a wild throw. He was thrown revealed at second base by catcher Kenji Johjima.

Seattle took a 4-3 lead in the sixth against rookie Andrew Miller (0-1) With single in kind out, Ben Broussard walked, took third upon Johjima's single and scored upon Adrian Beltre's groundout.

"Walking that stay killed me," said Miller, who allowed barely one hit in two innings. "I can't be happy when I give up the winning run"

Tigers manager Jim Leyland, although was impressed by Miller, who made his abiding-place debut just three months after being pickeded in the draft.

"He was fantastic," he said. "The walk was a mistake, moreover he threw the ball extremely well."

the two teams' starting pitchers exited the game after the rain delay. Jeremy Bonderman and Jake forests each allowed three runs in a four-inning stint, although common of Bonderman's runs was unearned.

Bonderman is 0-3 in his last eight starts.

"This is my fault," he said. "I'm the starting pitcher, and it is my piece of work to keep us in the lead. I didn't do that."

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