By ANDREW SELIGMAN

The Associated Press

CHICAGO – Kenny Rogers won his 200th game and the Detroit Tigers tied a club record with eight home runs in a 12-3 victory against the Cubs on Sunday, ruining Mark Prior’s season debut for Chicago.

Chris Shelton and Brandon Inge both homered twice for Detroit, which hit four of its homers off Prior. Rogers pitched eight innings, allowing two runs and four hits while striking out two.

Prior, who missed the first 2 1/2 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.

The Cubs lost their sixth straight game.

Rogers (10-3) became the ninth active pitcher with at least 200 wins. He allowed solo homers to Henry Blanco and Aramis Ramirez as the Tigers completed a three-game sweep and won for the ninth time in 11 games.

There were loud cheers for Prior (0-1) during the pregame introductions. Then, things turned ugly.

Granderson, who’s from the Chicago suburbs, hit his 10th homer on a 3-2 pitch. The next batter, Placido Polanco, lined a single up the middle and moved to third when Prior bounced a throw to first after fielding a bunt by Vance Wilson.

After Magglio Ordonez popped out, Guillen hit a three-run shot to left, his eighth homer and second in as many games.

Prior continued to unravel. Marcus Thames walked and Shelton lined a two-run homer to center, his 13th, to make it 6-0.

The six runs in an inning were one short of a career high Prior set in that Houston game.

The Cubs have been in a downward spiral since Derrek Lee broke two bones just above his right wrist in a collision with the Dodgers’ Rafael Furcal on April 19.