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CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Pinch hitter Hao-Yu Lee<\/a> hit his first MLB<\/a> home run and Spencer Torkelson<\/a> homered for the fifth straight game as the Detroit Tigers<\/a> avoided a series sweep with an 8-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Torkelson tied a Tigers record by homering in five consecutive games, joining Rudy York, Hank Greenberg, Vic Wertz, Willie Horton and Marcus Thames.<\/p>\n

The Tigers led 2-0 after Kerry Carpenter’s<\/a> bases-loaded double in the first before Cincinnati rallied.<\/p>\n

Reds designated hitter Nathaniel Lowe<\/a> homered in the second inning, going deep for the fourth time in nine plate appearances.<\/p>\n

JJ Bleday, making his Reds debut after being recalled from Triple-A Louisville on Saturday, tied the score 2-all in the fourth with a 403-foot homer to center. <\/p>\n

Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes tripled and scored on Matt McLain<\/a>\u2019s single to put the Reds ahead 3-2 in the fifth. <\/p>\n

After Reds right-hander Rhett Lowder<\/a> escaped a jam in the second, he allowed one hit over the next three innings. Lowder gave up two runs on six hits with a walk and seven strikeouts in five innings. <\/p>\n

The Tigers regained the lead in the seventh. <\/p>\n

Lee’s pinch-hit two-run homer off Reds left-hander Sam Moll<\/a> (1-1) put the Tigers ahead 4-3. Two batters later, Torkelson made it 5-3 with his fifth home run of the season off Pierce Johnson<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Gleyber Torres<\/a> made the score 8-3 with a two-run homer off Jose Franco<\/a> in the eighth. <\/p>\n

Keider Montero<\/a> started for Detroit and allowed three earned runs on five hits in five innings. He walked two, struck out five and surrendered two homers. <\/p>\n

Brant Hurter<\/a> (3-0) pitched a scoreless sixth inning to earn the victory for Detroit. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Tigers: RHP Casey Mize (2-1, 2.51 ERA) will start Tuesday’s series opener against the Braves<\/a> in Atlanta. <\/p>\n

Reds: RHP Chase Burns (2-1, 2.57) will start Tuesday’s series opener against the visiting Rockies<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Pinch hitter Hao-Yu Lee hit his first MLB home run and Spencer Torkelson homered for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,14426,50,53,76469,95,43538,58646,5342,6671,391,19,1401,4,495,1133,6967,9611,314],"class_list":{"0":"post-683583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brant-hurter","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-event_recap","13":"tag-gleyber-torres","14":"tag-hao-yu-lee","15":"tag-jose-franco","16":"tag-kebryan-hayes","17":"tag-keider-montero","18":"tag-kerry-carpenter","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-matt-mclain","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-nathaniel-lowe","23":"tag-pierce-johnson","24":"tag-rhett-lowder","25":"tag-sam-moll","26":"tag-spencer-torkelson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116473001646215151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683583","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=683583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}