{"id":294487,"date":"2026-06-03T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294487\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:59:55","slug":"torres-perez-and-greene-go-deep-to-back-flaherty-as-tigers-beat-rays-8-0-macomb-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294487\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres, P\u00e9rez and Greene go deep to back Flaherty as Tigers beat Rays 8-0 \u2013 Macomb Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Gleyber Torres hit a leadoff homer, Wenceel P\u00e9rez and Riley Greene also went deep and the Detroit Tigers routed the Tampa Bay Rays 8-0 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Flaherty (1-7) struck out six in five-plus innings for his first win since last September. Matt Vierling tripled, doubled and drove in two runs.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers, who hit five homers Monday during a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tigers-rays-score-dingler-carpenter-greene-3939a97a80a373d3b21b95483ba222f7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-9<\/a> victory in the opener of the three-game set, 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<p>Detroit 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<p>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<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Gleyber Torres hit a leadoff homer, Wenceel P\u00e9rez and Riley Greene also went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[67051,3817,110,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-294487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}