LAKELAND, Fla. -- Once again, the Detroit Tigers put their explosive bats on display Tuesday with 17 more hits in an 18-4 split-squad win against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Only, this time, they flexed their muscles and powered their way to another impressive win.

Home runs by Ian Kinsler, Austin Jackson and Don Kelly helped Detroit win its fourth game in its last five exhibitions, in which the Tigers have combined for 50 runs and 72 hits.

It marked the fourth time in the past nine exhibitions the Tigers have scored 12-plus runs in a game.

Kelly, who entered Tuesday's game batting .357 with six RBIs, continued his torrid spring with a grand slam that gave Detroit a 9-0 lead. He sent the full-count pitch he saw from Marcus Stroman over the wall in right-center field.

Five batters later, Kinsler hit his third home run of the spring, a three-run blast off Marcus Walden to cap a nine-run fifth inning for the Tigers (11-8-2).

The Tigers got on the board in the second inning when Jackson belted his second homer this spring, a two-run homer off Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero.

Romero, who spent most of last season in Triple-A, exited in the third after issuing a two-out walk to Victor Martinez, his fifth walk of the game. A former opening day starter, Romero had two wild pitches, hit a batter and threw only 23 of 58 pitches for strikes.

GAME NOTES

-- Making his fifth start of the spring, Drew Smyly worked five shutout innings to lower his spring ERA from 4.76 to 3.31. He gave up two hits and struck out three.

-- The Blue Jays scored all four of their runs in the sixth inning, highlighted by Dioner Navarro's double off reliever Blaine Hardy. Hardy -- a candidate to fill the vacant long relief job this spring -- was knocked around for four runs, all unearned, and four hits.

-- Torii Hunter went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, including a two-run single in the sixth that gave the Tigers a 16-4 lead. Hunter has hit .579 (11-for-19) with eight RBIs over his last six games.

-- Jackson stole his second base in Grapefruit League play, the Tigers' 29th this spring, to help the Tigers add to their major league lead. However, three players were caught stealing, including Kelly and Hunter, both of whom were picked off.

-- For the second straight day, Tigers outfielder Rajai Davis was scratched from the lineup due to tightness in his right hamstring. He was initially penciled to start in left field and bat leadoff, but was held out as a precautionary measure.

-- Minor league outfielder Ben Guez replaced Davis in left field and went 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles and an RBI.

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