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CHICAGO (AP) -- Kenny Rogers won his 200th game.
Detroit set a club record with eight home runs. And Mark Prior had one of the worst outings of his career.
The result was a 12-3 victory for the Tigers and more misery for the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
"It doesn't matter if I'm coming back or had been pitching all year, I basically [stunk] today," Prior said. "It's not a good one. But I've got to move on."
Chris Shelton and Brandon Inge both homered twice for Detroit, and Rogers pitched eight innings, allowing two runs and four hits while striking out two.
Prior, who missed the first 2½ months of the season with a strain in his right shoulder, lasted just 3 2/3 innings and allowed eight runs, matching a career high set May 1, 2005, against Houston. The four home runs tied a career high set against Philadelphia on July 30, 2004.
Curtis Granderson led off the game with a home run for the first time in his career, Carlos Guillen added a three-run shot and Shelton hit a two-run homer as the Tigers grabbed a 6-0 lead in the first inning. Vance Wilson knocked out Prior with a two-run drive in the fourth that made it 8-1.
Reliever Roberto Novoa gave up solo homers to Marcus Thames and Inge in the fifth and back-to-back solo shots by Shelton and Inge in the eighth.
The eight homers tied a Tigers record set June 20, 2000, at Toronto, and matched the season high by a Cubs opponent. Atlanta hit eight against Chicago on May 28.
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