{"id":277733,"date":"2026-05-04T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277733\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:29:08","slug":"spencer-torkelsons-home-run-lifts-detroit-tigers-past-texas-rangers-7-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277733\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Torkelson&#8217;s home run lifts Detroit Tigers past Texas Rangers, 7-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spencer Torkelson hit a two-run homer and the Detroit Tigers pulled away to a 7-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Torkelson had gone five games without a homer after tying a franchise record by homering in five consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin McGonigle had two RBI singles and Matt Vierling added a two-run double for Detroit, which has won all five of its home series. Hao-Yu Lee chipped in a run-scoring single. <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Holton served as an opener and retired two of the three batters he faced. Brant Hunter (4-0) tossed 3 1\/3 scoreless innings for the win, allowing two hits and striking out two. <\/p>\n<p>Rangers starter Jack Leiter tied his career high with 10 strikeouts. He lasted 6 2\/3 innings and was charged with five runs.<\/p>\n<p>Leiter struck out six of the first eight batters he faced. He didn&#8217;t allow a baserunner until he issued a four-pitch walk to Riley Greene. Torkelson fell behind in the count 0-2, then clubbed a hanging slider over the left field wall to give Detroit a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>McGonigle&#8217;s line drive single in the sixth knocked in Jake Rogers, who led off the inning with a liner that bounced past center fielder Evan Carter for a triple. <\/p>\n<p>Texas scored in the seventh on Kyle Higashioka&#8217;s RBI groundout. The Tigers then scored four runs in the bottom of the inning, highlighted by Vierling&#8217;s two-run bloop double. <\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers begin a three-game road series against the New York Yankees on Tuesday. RHP Jacob deGrom (2-1, 2.01) will start for Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tigers ace LHP Tarik Skubal (3-2, 2.70) will start the opener of a three-game home series against Boston on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Torkelson hit a two-run homer and the Detroit Tigers pulled away to a 7-1 victory over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70908,42750,154,27,29,28,429],"class_list":["post-277733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}