{"id":664334,"date":"2026-04-05T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664334\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:21:42","slug":"detroit-tigers-hit-4-home-runs-in-11-6-win-over-st-louis-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664334\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers hit 4 home runs in 11-6 win over St. Louis Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry Carpenter, Zach McKinstry and Matt Vierling hit two-run homers and drove in three runs apiece, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/sports\/tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> powered their way to an 11-6, rain-shortened victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The game was called after 8 1\/3 innings following a 40-minute rain delay.<\/p>\n<p>Gleyber Torres added a solo shot for the Tigers, who had only two home runs in their first seven games.<\/p>\n<p>The game was delayed with one out in the ninth because of inclement weather. The field was deemed unplayable after the delay.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit starter Jack Flaherty was charged with five runs in four-plus innings. He allowed three hits and four walks and hit three other batters with pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Brant Hurter (1-0) picked up the win with one inning of scoreless relief.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Walker had three hits, including a grand slam, and drove in five runs to carry St. Louis&#8217; offense. Cardinals starter Dustin May (0-2) gave up seven runs and seven hits in 3 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter&#8217;s home run capped the Tigers&#8217; three-run first inning. McKinstry&#8217;s homer highlighted Detroit&#8217;s three-run fourth as the Tigers built a 7-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals scored five runs in the fifth, topped off by Walker&#8217;s 459-foot blast to left-center field.<\/p>\n<p>McKinstry&#8217;s RBI single in the bottom of the inning gave Detroit an 8-6 lead. Torres led off the seventh with his opposite-field homer and Vierling homered with two out in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Justin Verlander (0-1, 12.27) was scheduled to make his first start at Comerica Park in a Tigers uniform since Aug. 20, 2017, on Sunday night but he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/tigers-justin-verlander-il-hip-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">placed on the 15-day injured list<\/a> on Saturday with left hip inflammation. RHP Keider Montero was recalled from Triple-A Toledo to take his spot in the rotation. Montero will be opposed by RHP Kyle Leahy (0-1, 7.20) in the finale of the three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry Carpenter, Zach McKinstry and Matt Vierling hit two-run homers and drove in three runs apiece, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,53,388,19,4,185,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-664334","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-justin-verlander","11":"tag-major-league-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116351373361552626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664334","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=664334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}