{"id":353925,"date":"2026-06-29T00:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353925\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:21:10","slug":"detroit-tigers-fall-to-houston-astros-7-5-in-10-inning-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353925\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers fall to Houston Astros 7-5 in 10-inning battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers were bested by the Astros 7-5 on Sunday at Comerica Park after Houston&#8217;s Christian Walker hit a three-run homer during a four-run 10th inning for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers closer Kenley Jansen (1-4), pitching his second inning, started the 10th by walking Yordan Alvarez. Isaac Paredes, who tied it in the eighth with a solo home run, singled to give Houston a 4-3 lead. Walker then hit Jansen&#8217;s 2-2 cutter for a long homer to left to make it 7-3.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Torkelson homered off Enyel De Los Santos with one out in the 10th to get Detroit within 7-5. Zach McKinstry followed with a single and rookie Ben Malgeri drew a two-out walk to bring the winning run to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Vierling lined out to the warning track to right to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>For the second day in a row, the Astros trailed late in the game before rallying to prevent their former manager A.J. Hinch from winning his 1,000th MLB game. On Saturday, they trailed 6-4 after six innings before winning 8-6.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Houston was down 3-0 entering the seventh, but Colt Keith&#8217;s two-out error extended the inning, and Raynel Delgado followed with his first MLB homer to make it a one-run game. Paredes then led off the eighth with a tying homer off Kyle Finnegan.<\/p>\n<p>Astros closer Josh Hader (2-0) walked the bases loaded with two outs in the ninth, but struck out Riley Greene to force extra innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers took the lead on McKinstry&#8217;s two-run homer in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Meyers led off the third with a double and took third on a wild pitch, but Jack Flaherty struck out the next two before getting Yordan Alvarez to fly out.<\/p>\n<p>Houston loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth, but Flaherty struck out Meyers to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin McGonigle scored on second baseman Delgado&#8217;s two-out error in the fifth, giving the Tigers a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Astros: Return home to open a three-game series with Minnesota. RHP Zebby Matthews (3-5, 4.56) is scheduled to start for the Twins on Monday, while Houston hadn&#8217;t announced a starter.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers: Travel to New York for a three-game series with the Yankees. RHP Casey Mize (2-5, 2.95) is scheduled to start on Monday for Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers were bested by the Astros 7-5 on Sunday at Comerica Park after Houston&#8217;s Christian Walker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70908,56,5513,58,57,42750,55030,21176,154],"class_list":["post-353925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353925","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=353925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}