{"id":661474,"date":"2026-04-03T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661474\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:48:20","slug":"tigers-snap-4-game-losing-streak-with-4-0-win-over-cardinals-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661474\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers snap 4-game losing streak with 4-0 win over Cardinals on Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon Dingler homered, Framber Valdez pitched six shutout innings and the Detroit Tigers ended a four-game losing streak with a 4-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in their home opener on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit has a .667 regular-season winning percentage (34-17) against the Cardinals \u2014 their highest mark against any team \u2014 but the Cardinals have a 2-1 advantage in World Series matchups. St. Louis beat the Tigers in 1934 and 2006, with Detroit winning in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez (1-0) allowed three hits and two walks in his home debut for Detroit. Three relievers finished the game.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McGreevy (0-1) allowed three runs on seven hits in 4 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Greene hit a one-out double in the fourth and Dingler broke the scoreless tie with a 433-foot homer over the Cardinals bullpen in left-center.<\/p>\n<p>Greene then hit an RBI single with two out in the fifth to give the Tigers a 3-0 lead, and Javier B\u00e1ez drove in Parker Meadows to add a fourth run in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers nearly took the lead in the third inning. B\u00e1ez singled and stole second before trying to score on a single from Gleyber Torres to right. However, Jordan Walker&#8217;s throw reached the plate on the fly, allowing Iv\u00e1n Herrera to apply the tag.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals loaded the bases with two out in the fourth, but Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn flew out to left.<\/p>\n<p>The game-time temperature was 71 degrees, making it the warmest home opener since the Tigers moved to Comerica Park in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The teams play the second game of their weekend series on Saturday afternoon, with Tigers RHP Jack Flaherty (0-1, 4.15) facing RHP Dustin May (0-1, 13.50).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Dingler homered, Framber Valdez pitched six shutout innings and the Detroit Tigers ended a four-game losing streak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,53,19,4,185,673,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-661474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit-tigers","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-st-louis","14":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116342745319545106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661474","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=661474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}