Sardinha's 1st hit gives Tigers win over Rockies

Detroit Tigers starter Kenny Rogers pitches against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, June 29, 2008 in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)

DETROIT—Dane Sardinha hit a two-run triple for his first major league hit to rally the Tigers to a 4-3 win over the woeful Colorado Rockies on Sunday, giving Detroit a three-game sweep.

Detroit, which won its fifth straight and 15th in its last 18, has a winning record for the first time this season.

Troy Tulowitzki homered for Colorado, which lost its seventh straight.

Kenny Rogers (6-5) allowed three runs and eight hits in six innings. Freddy Dolsi pitched two perfect innings and Todd Jones bounced back from his first blown save of the season on Saturday night for a 1-2-3 ninth and his 15th save in 16 chances.

Greg Reynolds (2-6) allowed four runs and 10 hits in 5 2-3 innings.

Reynolds left the game leading 3-2 after Edgar Renteria's infield single put runners on first and third with two out in the sixth.

Reynolds was replaced by Matt Herges. Sardinha, a backup catcher who was called up from Triple-A Toledo last week because Brandon Inge went on the DL, lined Herges' 1-0 pitch into the left-center field gap to score Marcus Thames and Renteria.

Detroit took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on RBI singles by Miguel Cabrera and Thames.

Colorado took the lead in the second when Yorvit Torrealba's hit a run-scoring single and Tulowitzki followed with a two-run homer on Rogers' 0-2 pitch. The drive, over the left-field fence, was Tulowitzki's second and first since April 23.

Notes:@ The Tigers placed RF Magglio Ordonez on the 15-day disabled list with a pulled oblique muscle on Sunday. To replace him, Detroit recalled OF Matt Joyce from Triple-A Toledo.