DETROIT \u2014 Kevin McGonigle homered in the fourth inning and hit a two-run single off All-Star closer Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz with two outs in the bottom of the ninth that gave the Detroit Tigers a 5-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Wenceel P\u00e9rez tripled home two runs in the seventh to begin Detroit\u2019s comeback from a 4-1 deficit as the Tigers took two of three games in the series.<\/p>\n
Mu\u00f1oz (3-4) struck out Spencer Torkelson to start the ninth, then walked Zach McKinstry and P\u00e9rez. Both advanced on Matt Vierling\u2019s groundout before McGonigle lined a single off the glove of leaping second baseman Cole Young to give Detroit its fifth victory in six games.<\/p>\n
Will Vest (2-4) pitched a scoreless inning for the win.<\/p>\n
Seattle wasted a strong start from Luis Castillo, who left with a 3-1 lead after yielding three hits in 5 2\/3 innings. The veteran right-hander\u2019s only blemish was McGonigle\u2019s fourth homer \u2014 a 420-foot shot leading off the fourth that tied it at 1.<\/p>\n
Colt Emerson doubled off Tigers starter Jack Flaherty to begin the third before scoring on Young\u2019s one-out single to put Seattle up 1-0.<\/p>\n
Julio Rodr\u00edguez singled and scored on a double by Josh Naylor for a 2-1 lead in the sixth. Flaherty left after walking Randy Arozarena. The right-hander allowed three runs and six hits in five-plus innings.<\/p>\n
Drew Sommers relieved Flaherty and hit Emerson with a bases-loaded pitch to make it 3-1. Kyle Finnegan entered and retired Jhonny Peralta on a lineout to center field to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Rodr\u00edguez walked with one out in the seventh, stole second and third, and scored on Arozarena\u2019s two-out single off Finnegan for a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Mariners reliever Cooper Criswell gave up P\u00e9rez\u2019s two-run triple in the bottom of the seventh and failed to get an out. Gabe Speier retired Vierling on a pinch-hit grounder to third, and McGonigle on a shallow fly to left before striking out Gleyber Torres to keep it 4-3.<\/p>\n
Seattle had homered in nine straight games.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Mariners RHP Emerson Hancock (4-2, 2.80 ERA) starts Monday in Baltimore to begin a four-game series with the Orioles, who had not announced a starting pitcher.<\/p>\n
Tigers RHP Troy Melton (2-0, 1.74 ERA) pitches Tuesday to open a three-game series with the visiting Twins, who will start RHP Taj Bradley (5-2, 3.56).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Kevin McGonigle homered in the fourth inning and hit a two-run single off All-Star closer Andr\u00e9s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-690672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}