​The Detroit Tigers sold at the trade deadline, but they certainly are not playing like a team ready to fade quietly into the final two months of the season.Detroit jumped on Seattle early, received seven shutout innings from Framber Valdez and rolled to an 11-0 victory over the Mariners on Thursday afternoon at T-Mobile Park. The win gave the Tigers another road series victory and improved them to 5-1 through the first six games of their nine-game West Coast trip.More importantly, Detroit is suddenly right back in the American League wild-card conversation.The Tigers improved to 56-59 and sit just one game behind the Texas Rangers for the final AL wild-card position. Detroit has also won six consecutive road series for the first time since 1988. The Tigers have scored at least eight runs in each of their five victories on the trip.Dingler gets Detroit startedDetroit wasted no time against Mariners starter Bryce Miller.Kevin McGonigle opened the game with a walk before Dillon Dingler launched his 26th home run of the season to center field, giving the Tigers a 2-0 advantage just three batters into the afternoon.Riley Greene followed with a ground-rule double and Colt Keith drove him home with another double, pushing the lead to 3-0 before the Mariners had recorded their second out.It was especially notable considering Miller’s history against Detroit. Before Thursday, he had not allowed a run to the Tigers in 25 regular-season innings across four starts. Detroit forced him to throw 40 pitches in the first inning alone.Dingler struck again in the second.McGonigle singled, advanced to second on a groundout and scored when Dingler shot an RBI single into right field to make it 4-0.That was more than enough support for Valdez.Valdez controls SeattleWith Skubal and Mize no longer in the rotation, Valdez becomes even more important to the Tigers down the stretch, and Thursday was exactly the type of outing Detroit needed.Valdez worked seven scoreless innings while allowing four hits and two walks with five strikeouts. He needed only 95 pitches, 60 of them strikes. Seattle did not put a runner into scoring position until the sixth inning. When the Mariners did put runners aboard, Detroit’s defense erased them.The Tigers turned four double plays, including one in the second, fourth, seventh and eighth innings. Javier Báez was involved in three of them as Detroit continually prevented Seattle from building any sustained offensive momentum.Kyle Finnegan worked a scoreless eighth and Brenan Hanifee finished the shutout in the ninth.McGonigle helps break it openDetroit essentially put the game away in the seventh.After Zach McKinstry drew a one-out walk, McGonigle drove a Cole Wilcox pitch over the center-field wall for his 12th home run, extending the Tigers’ advantage to 6-0.Gleyber Torres followed with a single before Dingler collected his third hit of the game, an RBI single to right that scored Torres. Keith later singled home Dingler to make it 8-0.McG