(Sports Network) - Ageless southpaw Kenny Rogers faces yet another of his former teams tonight, when the Detroit Tigers open a three-game series with the slumping Oakland Athletics at Comerica Park.

Rogers is 21-7 with four saves and two complete games in 60 lifetime appearances against Oakland, posting a 4.28 earned run average. He pitched with Oakland in 1998 and 1999, going 21-11 over 53 starts before heading east to the New York Mets.

In 2008, he's been up and down, alternating a pair of wins and a pair of losses in his last four starts. In his last appearance, on August 2 at Tampa Bay, he was touched for six hits and seven runs in just 3 1/3 innings of a 9-3 loss to the Rays.

For the Athletics, lefty Dallas Braden makes his fourth start of the season and sixth appearance overall since a recall from the minor leagues in early July.

The 24-year-old, who'll turn 25 on Wednesday, was 1-2 in nine outings through May 29, then returned on July 11 with a scoreless innings of relief against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

He's relieved once and started three times since, defeating Tampa Bay on July 22 before consecutive losses to Kansas City and Boston on July 28 and August 2.

Braden has faced the Tigers three times, all starts, and is 0-1 with a 12.34 earned run average in 11 2/3 innings, allowing 20 hits and 16 runs.

On Thursday in Toronto, Scott Rolen and John McDonald drove in two runs apiece to lead the Blue Jays over the Athletics, 6-4, to secure a sweep of the four- game set in Toronto.

Oakland starter Justin Duchscherer lasted five innings and yielded four runs on seven hits, fanning six and walking two in the no-decision. Jerry Blevins (1-2) was saddled with the loss as he gave up two runs while recording only one out in the sixth.

Daric Barton had a two-run homer for the Athletics, who have dropped their last 10 contests. Oakland hadn't lost 10 in a row during a single season since a 12-game skid from April 19-30, 1994. Ryan Sweeney added a solo shot in defeat.

In Chicago, Miguel Cabrera smacked a two-run home run as the Tigers stopped the White Sox, 8-3, in the finale of a three-game set at U.S. Cellular Field.

Cabrera finished 3-for-3 with three runs driven in, while Carlos Guillen went 2-for-2 with three walks, three runs scored and an RBI for the Tigers, who stopped a six-game losing streak.

Zach Miner (6-4) was solid on the hill as he gave up just two runs -- one earned -- on seven hits with three strikeouts in six innings of work for Detroit.

The Athletics swept a three-game series versus the Tigers when these clubs met for the first time this season in Oakland on June 2-4. The A's have won nine of the last 13 in the series overall.