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Derek Jeter injured as Tigers win ALCS opener

The Yankees' star shortstop is out for the postseason

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Derek Jeter injured as Tigers win ALCS openerduring Game 1 of the American League championship series Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya )(Credit: Paul Sancya)

NEW YORK (AP) — Delmon Young doubled home the go-ahead run in the 12th inning after New York’s Raul Ibanez hit another stunning game-tying home run during a four-run rally in the ninth, and the Detroit Tigers outlasted the Yankees 6-4 Saturday night in an AL championship series opener in which Derek Jeter was helped off the field with what appeared to be a serious leg injury.

Jeter rolled over his knee when he dove in an attempt to glove Jhonny Peralta’s grounder up the middle in the 12th. Unable to move, he flipped the ball toward the mound. His leg was dangling as he was assisted to the dugout by manager Joe Girardi and trainer Steve Donahue.

Detroit was coasting to a 4-0 win before the Yankees rocked Tigers closer Jose Valverde in the ninth.

Three batters after Ichiro Suzuki hit a two-run homer off Valverde to cut the Yankees’ deficit in half, Ibanez connected for his second tying drive of this postseason, a two-run shot to right-center.

Ibanez started his powerful week pinch-hitting for Alex Rodriguez against Baltimore Orioles closer Jim Johnson in the ninth inning on Wednesday to send Game 3 of the division series to extra innings. He won it with a homer in the 12th inning.

The 40-year-old Ibanez also homered twice after entering as a pinch hitter on Sept. 22 in a 10-9, 14-inning win over Oakland. With New York fighting for the AL East title, he hit a tying pinch homer against Boston in the ninth on Oct. 2 and then singled in the winning run in the 12th.

Russell Martin singled leading off the ninth on Saturday and advanced on defensive indifference. Suzuki followed with the first postseason homer of his career after Jeter struck out. Robinson Cano also struck out and Mark Teixeira walked ahead of Ibanez’s shot.

Valverde blew a save in Game 4 of the division series against Oakland and has allowed seven runs in 2 1-3 innings this postsesaon.

The Tigers opened a 4-0 lead against Yankees starter Andy Pettitte and Derek Lowe.

Prince Fielder singled in a run after Miguel Cabrera was intentionally walked in the sixth, and Young followed with another run-scoring single to make it 2-0.

Young then homered in the eighth, and rookie Avisail Garcia had an RBI single three batters later off Boone Logan to give the Tigers a 4-0 lead.

Jhonny Peralta made two difficult plays to deny the Yankees with the bases loaded in each of the first two innings against starter Doug Fister.

Peralta made a diving, backhand stop in the hole of Rodriguez’s grounder in the first, then made a nice play an inning later on Robinson Cano’s liner that caromed off the inside of Fister’s right wrist, a play that ended another bases-jammed threat.

Fister worked out of big trouble in the sixth, too. With runners on second and third, the right-hander struck out Rodriguez, and then fanned Curtis Granderson and Martin on breaking pitches after the Yankees loaded the bases.

In Game 2 on Sunday, Anibal Sanchez gets the start for Detroit. Hiroki Kuroda will pitch for New York in the first outing of his big league career on three day’s rest.

Rodriguez was back in the New York lineup, batting sixth, after being benched for the deciding game of the division series against Baltimore on Friday. Fans gave him a standing ovation as he walked to the plate with two outs in the first. Jeter, Teixeira and Ibanez all reached on walks by Fister.

The 37-year-old third baseman hadn’t hit as low as sixth since Joe Torre batted him eighth in the fourth and final game of the 2006 AL division series against the Tigers, according to STATS LLC.

Both teams were coming off difficult division series that went five games. The Tigers beat the Yankees in 2006 and again last year, both times in the division series.

Fister got the win in Game 5 last year. He got off to a wild start in this one, walking three in an inning for just the second time in his career, according to STATS LLC.

With two outs, A-Rod hit a sharp groundball that Peralta dived to his right to snare. From his knees he threw to second base to just get Ibanez sliding in.

In the second, the Yankees used three two-out singles to load the bases, including Jeter’s 200th postseason hit.

Cano, who was 2 for 22 in the division series, lined a ball off Fister’s pitching arm. It went on a hop to a charging Peralta, whose throw barely beat Cano to first base. Cano slammed his helmet to the ground.

Pettitte, making his 44th postseason start, breezed through five innings. He gave up four singles, including one to Triple Crown winner Cabrera in the first.

But in the sixth, Austin Jackson led off with a soft line drive to the opposite field that went over first base and got caught up in a cutout in the stands about halfway down the right field line. Jackson raced to third for a triple. After an out, Cabrera was intentionally walked, and Fielder singled in the first run. Young followed with another hit.

Teixeira reached on second baseman Omar Infante’s error to start the bottom half, and Ibanez doubled, but Fister struck out the side.

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