Sanchez settled down, though, and retired the next 13 batters he faced. But this time the result was different, and a lot more fun.
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Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Ryan Madson walks off the mound as Detroit Tigers’ Ian Kinsler rounds the bases for a two-run walk-off home run during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Detroit.
Anibal Sanchez started the game shaky.
The Tigers roared back in the third inning with back-to-back walks by Alex Avila and Andrew Romine and a single by Jose Iglesias to load the bases. Former Tiger Omar Infante followed with a two-run single up the middle. Sanchez escaped the jam by inducing a pop-up to third base.
Rockies 7, Mariners 5: Michael McKenry hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning to lift Colorado.
Matt Boyd, acquired by Detroit from Toronto in the David Price trade, pitched seven strong innings to earn his first big league win. First pitch is scheduled for 8:05 p.m. Blaine Hardy was then brought in to face the lefty-hitting Hosmer and the switch hitter Morales.
The win clinched the Tigers’ first series victory since they took two of three in Seattle July 6-8, the week before the All-Star break. The Tigers’ next road trip runs August 10-19….
Maybe we should call it the “rally squirrel”.
The squirrel scampered across left field, pausing to stare down Royals outfielder Ben Zobrist, before heading off in the direction of the Tigers bullpen. With the bases loaded and one out, Kinsler hit into a fielder’s choice to push across Detroit’s first run. Avoided the double play twice to set up both of V-Mart’s home runs and was the hero with the walk-off home run.
Yasiel Puig hit a three-run home run as Los Angeles won for the fifth time in six games.
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He’d only had two hits in a game three times in four weeks. Morales drilled a two-out, two-run double off Hardy to tie it at 6. He last hit two-plus homers in a game on September 17, 2010. 543 games between multi-homer games.
