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DETROIT -- The Baltimore Orioles caught Jordan Zimmermann at the perfect time.Saturday, in Zimmermanns first start off the disabled list, the Orioles hit three homers before chasing him in the second inning and moved back ahead of the Detroit Tigers in the AL wild-card race with an 11-3 rout.Thats a very, very good pitcher and we happened to catch him on an off night, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. I certainly wouldnt want to be facing him in his next start.Adam Jones and Chris Davis homered in the first inning off Zimmermannn (9-6), and Matt Wieters connected in the second and sixth innings.At this point in the season, with us in the race, every win is huge, Wieters said. Obviously, it feels good to hit two homers tonight, but only because they came in a win. If we had lost, it wouldnt have mattered.Baltimore is two games behind first-place Boston in the tightly bunched AL East and one game back of wild-card leader Toronto. The Orioles are one game ahead of the Tigers and New York Yankees for the second wild card.Ubaldo Jimenez (7-11) allowed two runs, four hits and three walks in seven innings.The guys gave me a great start, and I just wanted to get us deep into the game with that lead, he said. My sinker was really good tonight, and I was able to throw all the breaking pitches whenever I needed them.Zimmermannn, bothered by a neck injury, has been on the disabled list three times and was making his first big league start since Aug. 4 and his second since June 30. He allowed six runs and four hits -- including three homers -- and two walks while getting three outs. He threw 42 pitches and faced 10 batters.I was terrible tonight, so this loss is on me, he said. I felt fine physically, but I couldnt locate any of my pitches. I was trying to hit the corner with my fastball, and Id miss five inches outside or five inches over the plate.Between his stints on the disabled list, Zimmermannn has an 8.84 ERA in eight starts since the beginning of June. With the Tigers deep in the race, it isnt clear what his immediate future holds.Were going to weigh a number of factors, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said when asked if Zimmermannn will remain in the rotation. We need to win games, and well decide how we think we can best do that.After an 11-minute rain delay at the start, Adam Jones hit Zimmermannns first pitch on a high arc into the Tigers bullpen in left. After Manny Machado drew a one-out walk, Chris Davis launched a 2-0 fastball deep into the Baltimore bullpen in center.J.D. Martinezs RBI single cut the gap to 3-1 in the bottom half, when Jimenez retired Justin Upton on a grounder to strand runners at the corners.When I got into trouble, Matt came out there and calmed things down, Jimenez said. He just kept calling for all the right pitches and I just had to throw them.Wieters hit a two-run homer in the second, when Blaine Hardy threw a run-scoring wild pitch. Wieters hit a three-run homer off Buck Farmer in the sixth.Ausmus responded by making eight lineup changes for the seventh, changing every position but catcher.TRAINERS ROOMOrioles: Davis said he plans to keep playing despite a sore left hand that has bothered him for most of the season. Orioles manager Buck Showalter has tried to rest his first baseman by taking him out of lopsided games, and replaced him with Drew Stubbs in the seventh on Saturday..LOOK OUTTigers third-base coach Dave Clark was uninjured after being hit on his rear by Erick Aybars hard one-hopper in the fourth inning. Clark, who stands closer to the plate than most third-base coaches, laughed off the incident. Clark took a glancing blow in the eighth inning from a Steven Moya grounder as he tried to pirouette out of the way.In all the years Ive been in this game, I have never seen a third-base coach get hit twice in the same night, Showalter said. Baseball will never cease to surprise you.UP NEXTTigers ace Justin Verlander (14-7, 3.28) faces Baltimores Chris Tillman (15-5, 3.76) in Sundays series finale. Tillman is coming off the disabled list, while Verlander is 6-1 with a 2.09 ERA in his last 11 games, posting a quality start each time. Chaussures Vans Old Skool Pas Cher . The 31-year-old Spain midfielder hasnt played since Madrid lost in the Copa del Rey final to Atletico Madrid in May due to back and foot injuries. Acheter Air Max 90 Pas Cher . Luis Suarezs double powered Liverpool to a 4-0 victory over Fulham, and Southampton easily overcame Hull 4-1 to continue the south coast clubs impressive start to the season. 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All the way back to when he played in college more than a quarter century ago.So everyone can just stop with the Happy Gilmore references.Heres the story, as told by Kelly after a second-round even-par 70 at the Travelers Championship, which kept him near the top of the leaderboard not far from where he once played in school.I came here to play golf; I cant tell everybody that enough, said Kelly, who attended the University of Hartford nearby. I did not get any kind of hockey scholarship; I did not come here to play hockey. I came here to play golf, but I was hoping to play hockey, as well, if they took it to Division I.It never happened.The school decided that taking its club program to the next level was too costly and instead dropped it altogether.That hasnt stopped long-standing perpetuation of the myth that Kelly was a real-life Happy, trading in his skates for spikes and using a slap shot swing to vault his way onto the PGA Tour.The truth is, Kelly was an all-city hockey player during his high school years in Madison, Wisconsin, and had a few scholarship offers, but he was a better golfer, and thats where hed focused his energies going into college.Smart idea.He is 49 years old now, playing his 21st full season as a PGA Tour member before he turns 50 and gains senior status in three months.Hes also showing he can still hang with the flatbellies out here, many of whom are half his age. After a roller-coaster round Friday that included five birdies and five bogeys, Kelly slowly walked up the hill from the 18th green to the scoring area, then spent a few minutes stretching his weary legs while grumbling about the ravages of old age, at least in golfer years.Many of those youngsters would happily trade places with Kelly entering this weekend, as he seeks his fourth career PGA Tour victory. And dont underestimate the impact of how turning the big five-oh soon has rejuvenated him.ddddddddddddThe closer he gets to the Champions Tour, hes embracing that, explained his longtime caddie, Eric Meller. I almost think the energy is permeating into this tour. Hes getting excited for it. Obviously, hes still got plenty of game at this level.But I think he feels its more sporadic. There are certain tournaments were more excited for -- this one, next week [at the John Deere Classic] and Greensboro [for the Wyndham Championship]. All three we know we can win.It might even be a good sign that, after an opening-round 64, Kelly wasnt pleased with his second-round performance but still finds himself in contention.I hit the ball very bad, he said matter-of-factly. I didnt hit it very well at all.Thats him. Everything he says is said matter-of-factly, extending to the mutterings and groans to himself after bogeys on three of his last four holes to close out the round.So it shouldnt be surprising that, when asked what he needs to do to win this weekend, he was similarly blunt.I have to shoot lower than everybody else, he deadpanned. I mean, literally, there is no strategy. Expecting rain [Saturday]. You dont know what youre going to get. Expecting wind and cooler weather on Sunday. Dont know what youre going to get. You game plan for something today, not going to show up tomorrow. Youve just got to beat everybody. Thats all there is to it.Maybe its part of Kellys hockey background that allows him to answer such questions with in-your-face responses.Just dont call him a hockey player. After all these years, he wants everyone to realize hes a golfer -- and hes been a golfer this entire time.Its unbelievable, he said of the myth about his college plans. Ive told the correct story from day one, and the media just keeps on jumping on the other one.Not anymore.Kelly is a golfer who is playing golf today. ' ' '