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BALTIMORE -- It was a wild half inning that had a little bit of everything -- three straight homers, a grand slam and eight runs before there was a single out. There was even a bit of mystery: Did Jason Hammel try to hit Matt Tuiasosopo with a pitch, and did the right-hander deserve to be ejected? Miguel Cabreras grand slam capped an eight-run fourth inning for the Detroit Tigers, who cruised past the Baltimore Orioles 10-3 Saturday to snap a four-game losing streak. Justin Verlander (7-4) allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings to win his third straight start and improve to 8-0 lifetime against Baltimore. But his performance was secondary to that of the Detroit offence, which built a 9-1 lead in the pivotal fourth. After Victor Martinez opened the inning with a home run off Hammel, Jhonny Peralta followed with a shot to left and Alex Avila made it three in a row with a drive to centre. Hammels next pitch struck Tuiasosopo in the left shoulder, then ricocheted off the flap of his helmet. Home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt immediately tossed the right-hander from the game. Hammel, who had already issued three walks, argued the ejection. So did Orioles manager Buck Showalter. But the decision stood. "Im not going to make a big deal of it. I hit him with a slider," Hammel said. "Zero intent there to hit him. Obviously I give up three home runs, but Im not the guy that answers getting hit around with hitting somebody. Thats bush league if you ask me. It was a mistake. A slider that got away." Tuiasosopo wasnt so sure. "All I know is we hit three homers off him, then the first pitch is at my head," he said. "I wanted to try to go up there and hit a fourth one, but obviously I got hit." Showalter defended his pitcher, but acknowledged that the umpires were simply doing their job. "I understand what the umpires trying to do, but its very tough for them to judge intent," the manager said. "But Ive got a real biased opinion of it, and its pretty obvious to us there was nothing intentional about it." Crew chief Jerry Layne said, "In this particular situation, everythings kind of played into what this looks like. They claim there was no intent. Three home runs and a guy gets hit, youre an umpire, what do you do?" Interestingly, Tigers manager Jim Leyland didnt believe Hammel was aiming the pitch at Tuiasosopo. "In my heart, I do not think he was throwing at him," Leyland said. Tuiasosopo dropped his bat after the pitch, looked briefly at Hammel and walked to first base. "I wasnt happy about it. He got thrown out, and so he got his," Tuiasosopo said. "Im just going to go to first base. What am I going to do? Charge the mound? Then I would get in trouble, too. He got thrown out and we ended up tagging them for more. " After Hammel (7-3) left, rookie T.J. McFarland was summoned from the Baltimore bullpen. Avsail Garcia singled, Omar Infante doubled in a run and Andy Dirks walked to load the bases for Cabrera, who delivered his fourth career grand slam. It was his 200th home run with the Tigers, tying him with Bill Freehan for ninth place on the teams career list. It was the first time the Orioles have ever given up four homers in an inning, according to STATS, Inc. Detroit had not hit four home runs in an inning since Sept. 10, 1986. Prince Fielder added a sixth-inning drive for the Tigers, whose five homers were a season high. J.J. Hardy hit two home runs for Baltimore, and Nate McLouth singled twice and stole a base. Hammel gave up five runs, five hits and three walks in three-plus innings. The three walks and three home runs were both season highs. "I did not have command today," Hammel said. "Obviously, very frustrated. Cost the bullpen a lot of innings." In his first time through the batting order, Hammel gave up two hits and walked three, but Detroit could only get one run -- when Martinez led off the second with a walk and scored on a two-out single by Tuiasosopo. Hardy opened the third with a homer to knot the score at 1. The deadlock didnt last long. On Hammels fifth pitch of the fourth inning, Martinez hit a drive inside the right field foul pole, and the rout was on. NOTES: Every Detroit starter had at least one hit. .. Cabrera has 17 homers and leads the majors with 65 RBIs. ... Kevin Gausman (0-2, 11.00 ERA) makes his third major league start Sunday for Baltimore in the finale of the three-game series. Rick Porcello (2-2, 5.29) will start for the Tigers. ... Detroits starting pitchers recorded 203 strikeouts in May, the third-highest total in a single month by a major league rotation since 1900. ... It was Hardys 10th career two-homer game. He came in mired in an 0-for-11 skid. Wholesale Custom Panthers Shirts . 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LOS ANGELES -- The ex-girlfriend accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and his friends of rape spent Thursday battling her emotions as she tried to piece together a night she remembers only in flashes.Her vague recall and testimony that contradicted what she told lawyers during her deposition left her vulnerable to combative cross-examination by Roses lawyer as the Knicks player looked on with little reaction.In a soft voice that at times couldnt be heard by lawyers or jurors, the woman behind the $21.5 million lawsuit said she was intoxicated and felt like she had been drugged after a visit to Roses mansion in Beverly Hills in August 2013.Ive never felt like that before, the 30-year-old said. I just felt I was less in control, more goofy.As she began to connect a night of drinking at Roses place on Aug. 26, 2013, with the disputed incident early the next morning at her apartment, she took a long pause in her testimony and wept quietly, hiding her face behind a computer screen at the witness stand.Defense lawyer Michael Monico complained during a break that they couldnt have her crying all day and suggested the judge issue a no crying order.Im not going to order the witness not to cry any more than Im going to order her not to breathe, U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald said.Rose, 28, and his friends Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton have denied the accusations in the lawsuit and claimed the woman willingly had sex with all three.The Associated Press is not naming the woman because it generally does not identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault.Roses lawyer used a string of text messages as a timeline to question the womans story and whether she even drank enough to black out hours later. And he questioned how she had managed to send lucid text messages during that period -- several of which invited Rose to her apartment.Whether you claim you were blacking out or not, you were using periods and sentences, attorney Mark Baute said.I dont usually text like that, she replied.Baute got her to concede she had lied to Rose in text messages earlier that day about plans she had and a stop at a sex shop she never made.The woman testified that she began dating Rose on and off over 20 months -- a relationship the defense has called friends with benefits -- after meeting him during the 2011 NBA lockout at a Hollywood nightclub.ddddddddddddShe thought they had a future together, though Baute cast doubt on that.He showed that until that night in August, Rose had never been to her place, she never attended any of his games and during a visit when he was playing in Philadelphia, she never left their hotel.After they split up in early summer of 2013, she hadnt been in touch with Rose until the morning of Aug. 26 when she texted him a photo of herself and said he was her inspiration.He invited her over that night by text message and made overtures to bring a friend along for a threesome. She said she would come over for drinks.While waiting for a driver who was late to pick her up, she said she started drinking vodka because she was nervous. She had some wine in the car and said she had 3+ shots of tequila at the Beverly Hills mansion.She said she had previously had tequila with Rose and felt like it gave her strength, but this was the opposite, and said she felt drugged, a suggestion the defense denies.She only had vague recollections of what happened afterward. She left the Roses after her friend got in a fight with one of his friends and vaguely remembered a cabbie helping her up to her apartment. Inside, she vomited and passed out on the bed.I recall waking up and seeing them in my room, she said of the three men.In one of her flashes, she said, Rose was at the edge of her bed undressed and pulling her toward him. She was trying to roll off the bed.I just felt like I wanted to throw up, she said.She said she awoke the next morning with her black dress around her neck, lubricant on her legs and saw a used condom on her bedroom floor. She was confused about what had happened.She said she didnt go to the police because she was embarrassed and feared her name would become public and her family would find out.Baute asked if she didnt report the incident because she didnt want to be responsible for inviting someone over to her apartment for sexual intercourse at 3 a.m. and falsely accuse them of rape.I never did any of those things, she said.She reported the incident to police after filing the lawsuit more than two years later. ' ' '