Tigers 17, Astros 2: Miguel Cabrera was 4-for-4 with two home runs and a career high-tying six runs and Max Scherzer was dominant through eight innings as visiting Detroit easily won for the eighth time in nine games.

Cabrera crushed a two-run homer in the second and smacked a solo shot in the sixth to collect his 26th career multi-homer game. Victor Martinez also homered and drove in four runs and Torii Hunter was 4-for-5 and scored three times for the Tigers, who outhit punchless Houston by a whopping 21-6 margin.

Scherzer (4-0) won for the 19th time in 24 regular-season decisions going back to last year, allowing just one run and three hits while striking out eight. He retired 17 in a row at one point and was hurt only by Carlos Corporan's home run with two outs in the seventh.

Houston starter Lucas Harrell (3-3) was knocked around for eight runs and 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out three and issued four walks, including one to Cabrera with the bases loaded in the fourth.

Cabrera's RBI single and Martinez's two-run double highlighted a four-run first and Cabrera made it 6-0 with his first blast one inning later. Alex Avila's RBI double made it 8-0 in the fifth and Cabrera later took reliever Jose Cisnero deep before the Tigers poured it on with eight runs over the last three innings.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Cabrera, who also singled in a run in the seventh, has 327 career homers, four shy of Detroit legend Hank Greenberg. ... Martinez, Avila, Austin Jackson, Jhonny Peralta and Omar Infante all had two hits for the Tigers. ... Harrell has given up eight runs twice in four home starts this year.