LAKELAND, Fla. -- Miguel Cabrera and Andy Dirks did not hit home runs.

Everyone else in the Detroit Tigers starting lineup did. The end result was an 18-3 rout of the Atlanta Braves in the Grapefruit League home opener for the Tigers.

Ryan Raburn hit two home runs, including a grand slam in the fifth inning. Brennan Boesch and Austin Jackson both hit a home run. But both of them almost hit two.

Prince Fielder hit one off the light tower in right. Alex Avila smashed one to deep center. Delmon Young hit one that barely cleared the fence in left. Jhonny Peralta hit a wind-aided home run to right.

Danny Worth added a solo shot in the seventh for the ninth home run of the game for the Tigers.

"I definitely believe this team's capable of doing that," Raburn said of the offensive outburst. "Just the caliber of the guys you have on this team, it's pretty amazing. You have two All-Stars hitting sixth and seventh."

Of the first eight hits for the Tigers, seven were home runs.

"I've never seen that," Avila said.

The wind was blowing like crazy at Joker Marchant Stadium, but most of the eight home runs the regulars hit would have been no-doubters even on the stillest of days.

"Like our coaches said, 'The wind blows out in the season, too,' " Raburn said. "You try to take advantage of it, but our goal right now is to prepare ourselves right. We're trying to see some pitches, get our feeling back and square some balls up. The results -- yeah, it's nice to see -- but that's not our priority right now."

Tigers manager Jim Leyland shrugged off the outcome of the game.

"This was a silly game," he said. "It's one of those crazy things where we hit the ball up in the air to right field and they didn't. That's what happened."

No one would quibble with the home runs hit by Jackson and Young, who both smacked the ball through the teeth of a crosswind and over the fence in left.

Fielder was asked if his home run was helped by the wind.

"Nah," he said, smiling. "None of them were wind-aided. It's not my fault. I didn't tell the wind to blow."

Tigers starter Max Scherzer struggled a bit with his command in his debut this spring. He struck out one, walked one and hit a batter while allowing three hits in two innings of work.

"He struggled a little bit with his fastball command, which is typical for him now at the beginning of spring," Avila said. "But what I was really impressed with was his slider and changeup were great. He really commanded both of those pitches."

Cabrera went 0-for-3 with a strikeout and made an error on the first ball that was hit to him in Grapefruit League action.

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