DETROIT, Mich. \u2014 Kerry Carpenter, Zach McKinstry and Matt Vierling hit two-run homers and drove in three runs apiece, and the Detroit Tigers powered their way to an 11-6, rain-shortened victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The game was called after 8 1\/3 innings following a 40-minute rain delay.<\/p>\n
Gleyber Torres added a solo shot for the Tigers, who had only two home runs in their first seven games.<\/p>\n
The game was delayed with one out in the ninth because of inclement weather. The field was deemed unplayable after the delay.<\/p>\n
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
Brant Hurter (1-0) picked up the win with one inning of scoreless relief.<\/p>\n
Jordan Walker had three hits, including a grand slam, and drove in five runs to carry St. Louis’ offense. Cardinals starter Dustin May (0-2) gave up seven runs and seven hits in 3 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Carpenter’s home run capped the Tigers’ three-run first inning. McKinstry’s homer highlighted Detroit’s three-run fourth as the Tigers built a 7-1 lead.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals scored five runs in the fifth, topped off by Walker’s 459-foot blast to left-center field.<\/p>\n
McKinstry’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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT, Mich. \u2014 Kerry Carpenter, Zach McKinstry and Matt Vierling hit two-run homers and drove in three runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-664422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116351781852242281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664422","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=664422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}