The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Tigers rally past Braves to halt nine-game slide
Spencer Torkelson sparked a three-run, ninth-inning rally against Raisel Iglesias with a tworun homer and hit a game-ending single in the 10th, lifting Detroit over the Atlanta Braves 6-5 on Monday night to stop the Tigers’ ninegame losing streak.
Andy Ibañez began the comeback from a 4-0 deficit with a seventh-inning homer and threw out Sam Hilliard at the plate from left field in the 10th as Detroit improved to 7-3 in extra-inning games this year.
Atlanta led 5-2 when Jonathan Schoop singled off Iglesias (2-3) leading off the ninth and Torkelson drove a sinker 440-feet to leftcenter for his sixth homer.
Kerry Carpenter singled, Javier Báez struck out and Nick Maton bounced into a forceout at second, speeding down the first-base line to avoid a game-ending double play. Matt Vierling singled and Zach Short tied the score when he singled to left on a 1-2 count.
With Ibañez on second as the automatic runner in the 10th, Jake Rogers popped up a bunt against former Joe Jiménez (0-2) that Austin Riley tried to scoop but hit the tip of the third baseman’s glove and bounced under for what was scored a sacrifice and an error.
With the infield and outfield in. Schoop lined to Jiménez and Torkelson hit a 351-foot fly that fell behind the outfield for a winning single.
Braves starter Charlie Morton allowed four hits in 5 2/3 scoreless innings with eight strikeouts and three walks.
Atlanta built a four-run lead, keyed by Ronald Acuña Jr.’s tworun double in the fifth. MARINERS 8, MARLINS 1 >> Rookie Bryce Miller and two relievers combined on a one-hitter, Ty France, Eugenio Suárez and Tom Murphy homered, and Seattle defeated visiting Miami.
Miller threw six innings and allowed only Nick Fortes’ solo home run with two outs in the fifth inning. Ty Adcock pitched two innings of relief in his major league debut, and Gabe Speier worked the ninth, finishing off the one-hitter.
Miller (4-3) struck out six and walked three.
ATHLETICS 4, RAYS 3 >> Shea Langeliers hit a three-run double in the fifth inning to break up a scoreless game, and host Oakland won its season-high sixth straight game with a victory against major leagueleading Tampa Bay.
Ryan Noda added an RBI single in the fifth for the big league-worst A’s. James Kaprielian (2-6) pitched six solid innings, allowing three runs and five hits to win his second consecutive start.
A’s rookie Ken Waldichuk relieved him and worked out of a jam in the seventh when he struck out Randy Arozarena to strand runners at the corners. Waldichuk earned a three-inning save.
Jose Siri hit a three-run shot in the sixth for Tampa Bay’s 113th homer of the year to match the idle Dodgers for most in the majors.
Oakland (18-50) loaded the bases with none out in the fifth against Zach Eflin (8-2) with two straight walks and Jace Peterson’s single. One out later, Langeliers delivered. GIANTS 4, CARDINALS 3 >> Mitch Haniger drove in two runs and Brandon Crawford hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the eighth inning to lead San Francisco to a win at St. Louis.
Haniger’s single to right field in the seventh inning scored Flores and tied the game at 3-all.
In the eighth, the Giants’ Patrick Bailey doubled with one out off reliever Chris Stratton (1-1) and scored on the hit by Crawford.
Paul Goldschmidt and Paul Dejong homered for St. Louis, which has lost 10 of its last 13 games.
Goldschmidt poked a two-run homer off Logan Webb in the sixth inning, giving the Cardinals a 3-2 lead. Dejong connected on a solo shot off Webb in the fifth.
Haniger highlighted a two-run third inning with an RBI double.
Webb (5-6) allowed three runs on seven hits over seven innings. REDS 5, ROYALS 4, 10 INNINGS >> TJ Friedl scored the tiebreaking run in the 10th on Jonathan India’s grounder, and Cincinnati won at Kansas City to hand the Royals their seventh straight defeat.
Pinch-hitter Kevin Newman’s sacrifice fly in the ninth gave the Reds a 4-3 lead, but Buck Farmer allowed a tying homer to Salvador Perez with two outs in the bottom half.