{"id":774981,"date":"2026-08-10T12:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/774981\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:18:22","slug":"lees-pinch-hit-single-in-10th-sends-tigers-past-giants-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/774981\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee&#8217;s pinch-hit single in 10th sends Tigers past Giants 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Hao-Yu Lee drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning with a pinch-hit single and the Detroit Tigers beat the San Francisco Giants 3-1 on Sunday in the rubber game of their series.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Torkelson singled off Sam Hentges (1-4) after Lee&#8217;s base hit scored automatic runner Riley Greene for a 2-1 lead. Max Clark\u2019s groundout added an insurance run.<\/p>\n<p>Kenley Jansen (3-4) struck out the side in the ninth for the win. Tyler Holton pitched a perfect 10th for his second save as the Tigers finished 7-2 on a three-city trip to the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit starter Troy Melton allowed an unearned run on four hits and a walk over six-plus innings, striking out five. The right-hander hasn\u2019t permitted an earned run in his last 20 innings. Melton has given up two runs or fewer in 12 of his 13 starts this season.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Webb yielded one run on four hits and a walk over eight innings for the Giants, throwing 100 pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Willy Adames and Rafael Devers singled to start the fourth against Melton, putting runners at the corners. Osleivis Basabe struck out looking and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/2086558926699450659?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adames was thrown out<\/a> at home by right fielder Zach McKinstry trying to score on Drew Gilbert&#8217;s flyout, keeping it scoreless.<\/p>\n<p>McKinstry and Kevin McGonigle singled to begin the sixth against Webb to put runners on first and third. McKinstry scored on Gleyber Torres&#8217; double-play grounder for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Devers led off the seventh with a single, chasing Melton in favor of Kyle Finnegan. Basabe reached on a fielder&#8217;s choice, stole second and took an extra base on a throwing error by catcher Eduardo Valencia. Gilbert followed with an infield single to tie it 1-all.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit reliever Drew Sommers loaded the bases with one out in the eighth, but Devers hit into a double play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Hao-Yu Lee drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning with a pinch-hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[14040,5,13485,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,14041],"class_list":["post-774981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-7-action-news-sports","tag-baseball","tag-detroit-sports","tag-giants","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-wxyz-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117071177576531147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774981","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=774981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}