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The Detroit Tigers’ instructional club scored nine runs in the first two innings, yesterday, en route to a 13-1 win over Baseball Canada’s National Junior Team in Fall Instructional League action at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida.

Despite the gap in scoring, pitchers Shain Beaudreau (Cole Harbour, N.S.) and Daniel Reid (Nasonworth, N.B.) threw well and did not allow any runs. Beaudreau threw three innings allowing two hits, no walks and striking out two while Reid pitched two innings in which he was tagged for only two hits.

The Tigers did most of their damage against Canadian starter Olivier Routhier-Paré (Montréal, Qué.), who gave up 9 runs behind 5 walks and 8 hits in 1.1 innings of work.

Tanner Craswell (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) was Canada’s best offensive player on the day, going 2-for-3 with 1 run scored after being driven in by an RBI single by Michael Mutcheson (Morden, Man.) in the third inning. Leslie Williams (Scarborough, Ont.), Carter Bell (Courtenay, B.C.) and Warren Demoskoff (Langley, B.C.) collected the other Canadian hits.

Right-hander Mitch Hodge (Vancouver, B.C.) gave up the final four runs of the game although only two were earned. The Tigers scored three runs in the sixth inning behind one hit, two walks and an error to make it 12-1 before another Canadian error in the seventh allowed Detroit to score the final marker of the game.

Canada’s next match-up comes against the Cleveland Indians’ instructional team, Tuesday. Game time is scheduled for 1 p.m. EST.