1B Victor Martinez continues to lead the American League in road batting average. Martinez went 2-for-5 with a double, scored a run and struck out once in Wednesday night's 3-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels. Martinez is hitting .416 (42-for-101) on the road and ranks second in the American League with a .344 average this season.

DH Victor Martinez saw his seven-game hitting streak end Monday night. Martinez went 0-for-3 with a strikeout but drove in the Tigers' only run in a 5-1 loss to the Angels on a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning. Martinez still ranks second among the American League's hitters with a .345 average.

DH Victor Martinez continued his torrid pace against the Oakland Athletics on Sunday, recording three of the Tigers' five hits in their 4-2 loss. The three hits were the 99th, 100th and 101st of Martinez's career against the A's, against whom he's hitting .356 in 77 games. Sunday's effort was his 17th multiple-hit game of the season.

DH Victor Martinez had two of Detroit's six hits, including a home run, in Saturday's loss. The 2-for-3 day improved his career batting average against the A's to .350 (98-for-280) in 76 games. He has now hit safely in 15 of his last 16 games against Oakland, during which he has gone 27-for-58 (.466).

DH Victor Martinez was a late scratch from Wednesday's lineup. The official announcement was to take an extra day of rest heading into Thursday's off-day. Martinez had appeared in every game this season, providing steady production from the cleanup spot. He's hitting .331 with five homers and 22 RBIs while feeling much healthier than last season, when he battled knee pain.

DH Victor Martinez posted another hit to keep his hot streak going.He now has gone 24-for-53 (.453) in his last 14 games. He now has a .300 career average versus the Orioles.

DH Victor Martinez now is hitting .469 over his last 13 games. He went 3-for-4 in Thursday's loss but has six multi-hit efforts over the 13 games and he's 10-for-13 in his last three games.

1B/DH Victor Martinez, who had four hits Tuesday, had three hits Wednesday against RHP Max Scherzer. He is now hitting .328.

1B/DH Victor Martinez, who was not in the starting lineup Monday, had four hits Tuesday. He is now hitting .333 on the year.

1B/DH Victor Martinez got the night off as the Tigers were without the DH in a National League park. Manager Brad Ausmus said he noted Martinez played first base on Sunday and could be there on Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington.

1B Victor Martinez got on the field defensively Sunday for the first time this season. Martinez was in manager Brad Ausmus' lineup as the first baseman, a prelude of things to come in Detroit's imminent series at National League opponent Washington. Ausmus wanted to break his regular designated hitter into full-time duty at home before playing him two of the three games in Washington, where Detroit can't use a DH. He had an unassisted double play to end the sixth, snaring a line drive and tagging the Texas runner off first.

DH Victor Martinez was named AL Player of the Week. Martinez last week hit .519 (14-for-27) with 5 doubles, 3 home runs and 8 RBI. It's Martinez's fifth career Player of the Week award.

DH Victor Martinez went 3-for-4 with a double and two singles on Sunday. He finished the three-game series against the Twins with nine hits in 13 at-bats and has hit safely in 13 of his last 15 games, slashing .390 over that span.

DH Victor Martinez went 2-for-4 with two doubles. Martinez has nine RBIs over his last seven games and has hit safely in 12 of his last 14 games, hitting .364 in 55 at-bats over that stretch.

DH Victor Martinez went 4-for-5 and finished a triple short of the cycle. It was the first four-hit game of the season for Martinez and first since last July 6 against Seattle. The homer was his fifth of the season and third in his last five games.

DH Victor Martinez, who left in the eighth inning Tuesday after being struck in the right knee by a Kelvin Herrera pitch, was back in the lineup Wednesday. Martinez picked up his 1,000th career RBI with a sixth-inning single. He becomes the fifth Venezuelan-born player to drive in 100 runs. "The most important part of tonight is we were able to win," Martinez said.

DH Victor Martinez, who was hit on the right kneecap by a Kelvin Herrera pitch in the eighth inning Tuesday and Andrew Romine ran for him, was back in the lineup on Wednesday.

DH Victor Martinez was hit in the right knee by a Kelvin Herrera pitch in the seventh inning with the bases loaded. Martinez remained on the ground for a few minutes in pain. "It hit the knee cap," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "It doesn't seem initially to be anything concerning, but there was a scare there for a minute. My guess he will be fine. While he was sitting on the ground, the feeling came back pretty quickly."

DH Victor Martinez is poised to become the fifth Venezuelan-born player with 1,000 career RBIs. Martinez opened the weekend series with 997 and trails teammate Miguel Cabrera (1,449), Andres Galarraga (1,425), Bobby Abreu (1,363) and Magglio Ordonez (1,236) on the list.

PH Victor Martinez hit a two-run homer to left in the eighth. It was Martinez's second homer in as many at-bats this season -- one from each side of the plate and both as a pinch hitter. He has three RBIs. Martinez is the first player since 1914 to get two pinch-hit homers in the first two games of the season.