DH Victor Martinez extended his hitting streak to eight games by going 1-for-4 on Sunday. He is batting .379 (11-for-29) during the streak.

DH Victor Martinez is still hitting well, with an eight-game hitting streak and 18 RBIs this season, but he has just one home run. He hit that last month after going his first 90 at-bats without a four-bagger. The 38-year-old has hit 20 or more home runs seven times in his career and has 227 career home runs. He had 27 with 88 RBIs last season. Manager Brad Ausmus said he will consider shuffling his lineup with J.D. Martinez back and Justin Upton leading the team with eight home runs.

DH Victor Martinez did not play Wednesday after being used as a pinch-hitter in the first game of a two-game interleague series in Arizona, the Tigers' first games under National League rules. They finish this trip with a four-game series against the Angels and do not play another NL team on the road until going to San Diego, June 23-25.

DH Victor Martinez went 3-for-4 with an intentional walk, a double and two RBIs in Detroit's 7-2 victory over Oakland on Friday night. Martinez also scored a run. Martinez grounded a bases-loaded single to center in the third, driving in two runs and beating the A's shift. "When he's hitting well, he's taking advantage of what they're giving him," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "He kind of hits the ball all over the field. People shift him because he hits the ball more on the ground on the pull side, but he does hit line drives the other way. He shoots it the other way. He kind of takes advantage of whatever he can. He can spray the ball around." He hit an opposite-field double to left in the sixth inning.

DH Victor Martinez laid down the first bunt single of his career Monday night in the fifth inning and followed it with a sharp single to left in the eighth. "It was a lot of fun. I finally put one down," Martinez said. "The first time in my career. My heart was going boom, boom, boom. I wasn't really that confident when I came up to bat." He had an RBI double in the first en route to a three-hit game.

DH Victor Martinez hit his first homer of the season on Saturday. His blast started a two-run, ninth-inning rally. Martinez added an RBI single in his first at-bat but also flied out to end the game. "You know what, I have seen a lot of guys hitting .400 in the first half and then at the end of the season end up hitting .230, .240," Martinez said of his slow start. "And it's not the first time that I start like this. Like you said, we have another 500 at-bats."

DH Victor Martinez had three hits and two RBIs for Detroit on Sunday, including a double for his first extra-base hit of the season. Martinez has a hit in 16 of his last 17 games at Minnesota's Target Field. He's hitting .456 (31 for 68) during that stretch. The three-hit game was his first since Aug. 25, 2016 at Minnesota.

DH Victor Martinez's RBI single in the fourth inning snapped his 0-for-15 hitless streak. Against the Indians, his former team, Martinez has a career batting average of .309 with 14 home runs and 69 RBI in 372 at bats.

DH Victor Martinez was unable to play in the final series since it was conducted in a National League park. Martinez looked awkward with a swinging strikeout in a pinch-hitting appearance on Sunday afternoon. He finished the season hitting .289 with 27 homers and 86 RBIs.

DH Victor Martinez will be reduced to three at-bats this weekend in Atlanta as the Detroit Tigers conclude their scheduled games with three in a National League park where they cannot use the designated hitter. This gives manager Brad Aumus the luxury of picking his spot for his DH/cleanup hitter to bat, but it also takes away two or three at-bats per game from one of the Tigers' better hitters.

DH Victor Martinez smacked a grand slam in the third inning Sunday, the fifth of his career. It was his 27th home run this season and third of the week. Credit a cortisone shot he got in his right knee on Sept. 18 -- the day he was hit in the knee by a pitch.

DH Victor Martinez returned to action Thursday after missing a few days. Martinez was hit by a pitch in the knee on Sunday against Cleveland. He entered the first game of Thursday's doubleheader as a pinch hitter and was in the lineup as the designated hitter for the second game. Martinez hit a three-run homer in the first game and singled in the second game.

DH Victor Martinez did not play in the Wednesday game before it was scrubbed due to rain. Martinez was hit in the knee by a pitch on Sunday against Cleveland and has not played since then.

DH Victor Martinez might be able to play Wednesday, but manager Brad Ausmus said, "We'll have to see." Martinez's right knee swelled up after he was hit by a pitch from Trevor Bauer on Sunday. In Martinez's place on Tuesday, catcher James McCann played designated hitter and hit a three-run homer.

Tigers DH Victor Martinez was held out of Tuesday's game. Manager Brad Ausmus told reporters that Martinez's right knee swelled up after Sunday's game when he was hit by a pitch from Trevor Bauer.

DH Victor Martinez is hitting .331 on the road this year. That's the second highest road batting average in the American League.

DH Victor Martinez is hitting .331 (86-for-260) on the road this year. That's the second-highest road batting average in the American League.

DH Victor Martinez's game-deciding home run in the eighth inning on Friday was the 12th go-ahead home run of his career in the eighth inning or later. He's had three such blasts this season.

DH Victor Martinez went 2-for-4 with a run Wednesday against the White Sox to mark his 39th multi-hit performance of the season. Martinez appeared to injure his knee on an awkward slide into second base but remained in the game.

DH Victor Martinez went 3-for-4 and finished the three-game series against the Twins with seven hits. He improved his career average at Target Field to .370 in 46 games and is hitting .386 against the Twins this season. His .345 batting average on the road is the second best in the American League, trailing only Houston's Jose Altuve.