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Jeimer Candelario shows pop in Detroit Tigers win over Blue Jays

At Joker Marchant Stadium, Lakeland, Fla.

What happened: The Detroit Tigers beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4, in their Grapefruit League home opener. … Jordan Zimmermann started for the Tigers and threw two scoreless innings. … Jeimer Candelario hit a home run. … Nick Castellanos hit a two-run triple. … In his spring training debut, Victor Martinez went 1-for-2 with a single. … There were no injuries.

Starting off: Zimmermann was solid enough but allowed hard enough contact. He threw two scoreless innings on 30 pitches, allowing two hits. He didn’t walk anybody and didn’t strike out anybody, but recorded four groundball outs.