{"id":135321,"date":"2025-09-11T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135321\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:14:10","slug":"torres-leads-tigers-over-yankees-for-first-season-series-win-vs-new-york-since-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135321\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres leads Tigers over Yankees for first season-series win vs. New York since 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Gleyber Torres hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the fifth inning and had three RBIs against his former team, leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/detroit-tigers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"detroit-tigers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> over New York 11-1 on Wednesday night for their first season-series win against the Yankees since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Greene, Kerry Carpenter and Colt Keith added late two-run homers against a Yankees bullpen that has given up 18 earned runs over two games, raising its ERA since the All-Star break to 5.37. Greene had three RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>New York has lost consecutive games by 10 or more runs for the third time. The others came in September 1908 and August 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit has outscored New York 23-3 over the past two nights and won four of five against the Yankees this year with one meeting left. The Tigers (84-62) moved past Toronto (83-62) for the best record in the American League and opened a 9 1\/2-game AL Central lead.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees star Aaron Judge went 0 for 3 and hit into a pair of double plays, dropping his batting average to .319. His major league batting lead, which he has held since April 16, was cut to less than a percentage point over Athletics rookie Jacob Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Wells hit an eighth-inning homer for New York, which remained one percentage point ahead of Boston for the top AL wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees outfielder Austin Slater got the final two outs in the ninth, lobbing pitches as slowly as 36.4 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Flaherty (8-13) allowed two hits in five innings with seven strikeouts in his first win since Aug. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Rod\u00f3n (16-8), who had won his prior five starts, permitted two runs and six hits in six innings with six strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe, hitting .173 (22 for 133) in his last 38 games, was out of the starting lineup, replaced by Jos\u00e9 Caballero.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers third baseman Zach McKinstry missed his second straight game because of upper back stiffness.<\/p>\n<p>Torres lined a full-count, bases-loaded single into center field with two outs for a 2-0 lead in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>New York had won seven of its previous eight series.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees RHP Cam Schlittler (2-3, 3.24 ERA) starts Thursday&#8217;s series finale, while RHP Sawyer Gipson-Long (0-2, 5.59) will be a bulk pitcher for Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Gleyber Torres hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the fifth inning and had three RBIs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-135321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}