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topicnews · August 28, 2024

Detroit Tigers set new win record with 6-2 victory over Angels

Detroit Tigers set new win record with 6-2 victory over Angels

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The Detroit Tigers hit three home runs in five at-bats against right-hander Johnny Cueto of the Los Angeles Angels, with the three home runs totaling 1,272 feet.

All of them were long home runs into center field.

Jake Rogers hit a first-pitch fastball 422 feet; Riley Greene hit a middle-middle sinker 425 feet; Kerry Carpenter hit a middle-down changeup 425 feet. The three home runs, led by Rogers’ game-winning swing in the fifth inning, led to a 6-2 victory over the Angels on Tuesday in the opener of a three-game series at Comerica Park.

The Tigers (67-66) have won five games in a row and crossed the .500 mark for the first time since June 4.

Three long home runs benefited the Tigers, but not before the Tigers took advantage of Angels errors in the fourth inning and scored their first two runs of the game.

The Angels made defensive errors on Parker Meadows’ triple, Matt Vierling’s RBI double and Kerry Carpenter’s RBI single, but only one of the three errors was counted. Nevertheless, the Tigers took a 2-1 lead.

After the Angels fought back, the Tigers hit three home runs against Cueto in the fifth and sixth innings.

Rogers gave the Tigers a 3-2 lead with a solo home run to center field in the fifth inning. In the sixth inning, Greene hit a solo home run and Carpenter hit a two-run home run to make it 6-2.

Greene has 19 home runs in 108 games.

Carpenter’s home run chased Cueto, a 17-year MLB veteran who allowed six runs on six hits and one walk with five strikeouts and threw 83 pitches in five innings of work in his second major league start this season, after 13 minor league starts.

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First start

Left-hander Brant Hurter – who started 18 of 19 games at Triple-A Toledo – appeared in four games as a long reliever earlier in his MLB career, but Tuesday was his first starter.

Hurter, who turns 26 in early September, allowed two runs on four hits and two walks with four strikeouts and threw 80 pitches. He was effective against a lineup heavy on right-handers, even without a top-notch pitch to strike out righties.

GET VICTORIES: The Detroit Tigers have not reached a .500 record this late in the season since 2016

The Angels scored a run each in the first and fifth innings, thanks to Nolan Schanuel’s RBI single in the first and Taylor Ward’s sacrifice fly in the fifth.

Hurter retired 10 batters in a row, from one out in the first inning to two outs in the fourth. He also left two runners in scoring position in the first inning, which he paced with a balk when he struck out Anthony Rendon with a sweeper that lined the corner of the strike zone.

Hurter has a 3.57 ERA with three walks and 21 strikeouts in 22.2 innings in five games (one start) in his MLB career.

After Hurter, the Tigers got scoreless performances from right-handed reliever Brenan Hanifee, right-handed reliever Shelby Miller and right-handed reliever Jason Foley. In the ninth inning, Foley got the final out after Miller allowed two batters to get through safely with two outs.

Hanifee struck out all eight batters he faced, going 2⅔ innings.

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