{"id":25195,"date":"2025-05-14T02:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/25195\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:44:10","slug":"javier-baez-hits-a-pair-of-3-run-hrs-including-one-in-11th-to-lift-tigers-to-10-9-win-over-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/25195\/","title":{"rendered":"Javier Baez hits a pair of 3-run HRs, including one in 11th, to lift Tigers to 10-9 win over Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Javier Baez hit his second go-ahead, three-run homer in the 11th inning for his first multi-homer game in Detroit, lifting the Tigers to a 10-9 win over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The AL-leading Tigers were ahead in the first, third, fourth and sixth innings and lost the lead each time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After falling behind in each of the two extra innings, they came back to win a second straight game against Boston and 10th in 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>Kristian Campbell hit a two-run homer in the 11th and Greg Weissert (1-1) failed to keep a two-run lead. He allowed Jace Jung to hit a leadoff single and Baez to turn on a no-doubt shot to left.<\/p>\n<p>Beau Brieske (1-1) picked up the win after giving up two runs \u2014 one earned \u2014 and one hit in the 11th.<\/p>\n<p>Boston went up by a run in the 10th on Ceddanne Rafaela&#8217;s RBI groundout and Trey Sweeney&#8217;s two-out single in the home half of the inning made it 7-all.<\/p>\n<p>Baez, who has revived his career this season after struggling the previous three seasons in Detroit, also had a three-run homer in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton&#8217;s two-run blast off Tommy Kahnle pulled the Red Sox into a 6-all tie in the eighth. Boston had a chance to take the lead later in the inning with runners in scoring position, but Kahnle struck out Rafael Devers.<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#8217;s Alex Bregman, who was booed during each at-bat because he turned down an offer to sign with the Tigers in the offseason, hit a solo home run in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Baez put both his hands in the air in the moment after he sent the game-winning home run to left and the crowd chanted \u201cJa-vy! Ja-vy!\u201d for a player they previously jeered.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Torkelson has 11 homers in 43 games, a season after hitting just 10 in 92 games.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Detroit LHP Tarik Skubal (4-2, 2.08 ERA) and Boston RHP Hunter Dobbins (2-1, 2.78) are scheduled to pitch Wednesday night in the series finale.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Javier Baez hit his second go-ahead, three-run homer in the 11th inning for his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[72,5,2259,48,1396,147,53,2583,10504,1925,4956,1329,715,4,863,314,382,1323,594,1091,1957],"class_list":{"0":"post-25195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-beau-brieske","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-ceddanne-rafaela","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-detroittigers","16":"tag-greg-weissert","17":"tag-hunter-dobbins","18":"tag-jace-jung","19":"tag-javier-baez","20":"tag-kristian-campbell","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-rafael-devers","23":"tag-spencer-torkelson","24":"tag-tarik-skubal","25":"tag-the-tigers","26":"tag-tigers","27":"tag-tommy-kahnle","28":"tag-trey-sweeney"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114503893897411287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}