{"id":711499,"date":"2026-06-03T04:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711499\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:25:08","slug":"torres-perez-and-greene-go-deep-to-back-flaherty-as-tigers-beat-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711499\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres, Perez and Greene go deep to back Flaherty as Tigers beat Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Gleyber Torres<\/a> hit a leadoff homer, Wenceel P\u00e9rez and Riley Greene<\/a> also went deep and the Detroit Tigers<\/a> routed the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> 8-0 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Jack Flaherty<\/a> (1-7) struck out six in five-plus innings for his first win since last September. Matt Vierling<\/a> tripled, doubled and drove in two runs.<\/p>\n

The Tigers, who hit five homers Monday to open the three-game set with a 10-9 victory, had lost eight consecutive series \u2014 their longest such streak since dropping nine straight in 2019. Detroit has won back-to-back games for the first time since May 2 and 3. <\/p>\n

Detroit also won its first road series since taking two of three games at San Diego to begin the season. The team had gone nine road series in a row without winning one (0-8-1). <\/p>\n

Spencer Torkleson hit a leadoff double in the second and P\u00e9rez followed with a 404-foot shot over the left-field wall to make it 4-0. Greene\u2019s leadoff homer in the seventh made it 8-0. <\/p>\n

Flaherty gave up five hits and walked two after losing his previous five starts and six of the past seven. He was 0-9 in 14 regular-season outings since throwing five shutout innings to win for Detroit at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n

Enmanuel De Jesus<\/a> struck out four in four perfect innings for his first major league save. The left-hander faced 11 batters and got 12 outs, including a double play after replacing Flaherty in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Steven Matz<\/a> (4-3) allowed five runs and six hits in 1 2\/3 innings for Tampa Bay. The 35-year-old lefty became the fifth pitcher age 35 or older to appear for the Rays this season, tying the club record (2009).<\/p>\n

Richie Palacios<\/a> went 2 for 4 with a double and Ryan Vilade<\/a> also doubled for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Tigers RHP Troy Melton<\/a> (1-0, 1.42 ERA) starts Wednesday against RHP Nick Martinez<\/a> (5-1, 1.62) in the series finale.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Gleyber Torres hit a leadoff homer, Wenceel P\u00e9rez and Riley Greene also went…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-711499","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\/711499","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=711499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}