PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Jose Fernandez hit two home runs, including the go-ahead three-run homer in the eighth inning, in his MLB debut and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Fernandez finished 3 for 4 with an infield single for the first of his career in the second and a solo home run in the fourth.<\/p>\n
James McCann hit a double along the third baseline and Jordan Lawlar singled before the Tigers swapped out relief pitcher Drew Anderson for Will Vest (0-1). Vest walked Ketel Marte to load the bases and Corbin Carroll hit a double to the wall in center field, sending two home.<\/p>\n
Vest walked the next batter and Marte scored on a groundout before Kenley Jensen replaced Vest with runners at the corners. Fernandez hit a 409-foot shot that capped the scoring.<\/p>\n
Diamondbacks starter Brandon Pfaadt allowed five runs in six innings. Andrew Hoffmann (1-0) pitching two scoreless innings before Paul Sewald struck out the side in the ninth and earned his second save of the year.<\/p>\n
Detroit had all of its six hits in the Tigers’ five-run third. Riley Greene hit a two-run double, and Kevin McGonigle, Kerry Carpenter and Jake Rogers each added an RBI.<\/p>\n
Detroit’s Tarik Skubal (1-0, 0.00 ERA) starts opposite Zac Gallen (0-1, 9.00) in the series finale Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Jose Fernandez hit two home runs, including the go-ahead three-run homer in the eighth inning,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[16931,146,22,4314,5,654,1538,38,63086,1386,1198,543,62568,391,729,4140,4,9500,9501,372,9496,9497,83120,9498,624,382,83816,1117,86],"class_list":["post-656011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-andrew-hoffmann","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-pfaadt","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-diamondbacks","tag-drew-anderson","tag-jake-rogers","tag-james-mccann","tag-jordan-lawlar","tag-jose-fernandez","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-ketel-marte","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-paul-sewald","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-product-40792-ap-michigan-sports-only","tag-riley-greene","tag-tarik-skubal","tag-tigers-diamondbacks-baseball-score-mlb","tag-will-vest","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656011","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=656011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}