Riley Greene homered, singled and drove in four runs on Saturday afternoon as the Detroit Tigers defeated the visiting Miami Marlins for the second straight game, 6-1.<\/p>\n
Greene had an RBI single in the first inning and has reached base safely in all 15 games this season.<\/p>\n
In the third inning, after falling behind quickly in the count, 0-2, Greene fouled off five pitches and evened the count at 2-2 before sending a 408-foot, three-run shot to right center off Miami starter Janson Junk.<\/p>\n
Colt Keith added an RBI double for Detroit, which has won two consecutive games after losing five in a row. Spencer Torkelson walked twice and had an RBI single in the eighth inning to extend Detroit\u2019s lead to 6-1.<\/p>\n
Tigers starter Casey Mize allowed one run on six hits and struck out five in 5 2\/3 innings to improve to 1-1. Greene reached base three times and also had a stolen base, and Kerry Carpenter added a double.<\/p>\n
Otto Lopez had two doubles to lead the Marlins, who fell to 1-4 on the road this season. Connor Norby doubled, and his sacrifice fly in the fourth that scored Liam Hicks accounted for Miami\u2019s only run.<\/p>\n
Junk (0-2) allowed five runs on five hits and struck out four to lose his second consecutive start. The Marlins made two errors and left nine runners on base.<\/p>\n
Miami stranded at least one runner in every inning except the eighth, the only frame in which Tigers\u2019 pitching had a 1-2-3 inning.<\/p>\n
The Marlins missed a chance to make the game closer in the sixth. Lopez reached on a one-out error, and Norby followed one batter later with a ground-rule double that barely eluded right fielder Wenceel Perez\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n
Drew Anderson, who came on in relief of Mize, induced a groundout to short by Graham Pauley to end the threat.<\/p>\n
Anderson\u2019s fifth relief appearance this season was his longest of the season \u2014 and his best. He did not allow a hit in 3 1\/3 scoreless innings while walking two and striking out two.<\/p>\n
He retired Jakob Marsee on a groundout to first after a 14-pitch at bat to end the game and earn his first save as the Tigers improved to 4-1 at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riley Greene homered, singled and drove in four runs on Saturday afternoon as the Detroit Tigers defeated the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,399,1964,9350,147,53,2583,63086,14492,22740,15601,391,7728,58,4,1753,624,314,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-673982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-casey-mize","10":"tag-colt-keith","11":"tag-connor-norby","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-tigers","14":"tag-detroittigers","15":"tag-drew-anderson","16":"tag-graham-pauley","17":"tag-jakob-marsee","18":"tag-janson-junk","19":"tag-kerry-carpenter","20":"tag-liam-hicks","21":"tag-miami-marlins","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-otto-lopez","24":"tag-riley-greene","25":"tag-spencer-torkelson","26":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116391075084799824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673982","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=673982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}