Detroit Tigers' Dixon Machado is
congratulated by Pete Kozma after
scoring during the seventh inning of
a baseball game against the
Cleveland Indians, Tuesday, May 15,
2018, in Detroit. (Photo: Carlos
Osorio, AP)
Cleveland
Indians
starting
pitcher
Josh
Tomlin
throws
during
the
first
inning
of a
baseball
game
against
the
Detroit
Tigers,
Tuesday,
May 15,
2018, in
Detroit.
(Photo:
Carlos
Osorio,
AP)
Tigers
rally vs
Andrew
Miller
for 9-8
win over
Indians
By
DAVE
HOGG
APNews.com
DETROIT
- John
Hicks
expected
to be
challenged
by
shutdown
reliever
Andrew
Miller
in a
tight
spot
Tuesday
night.
Instead,
he got
an easy
bases-loaded
walk to
cap an
unexpected
comeback.
JaCoby
Jones
homered
and
doubled,
and the
Detroit
Tigers
rallied
against
Miller
during a
five-run
seventh
inning
to beat
the
Cleveland
Indians
9-8.
The
Indians
led 4-0
and 8-4
before
Detroit’s
breakthrough
seventh
for its
third
straight
win.
Miller
(1-2)
allowed
two
inherited
runners
to
score,
then
allowed
two runs
of his
own. He
faced
six
batters,
giving
up two
doubles
and
three
walks
while
getting
one out.
Louis
Coleman
(1-0)
pitched
a
scoreless
seventh
inning,
and
Shane
Greene,
pitching
for the
fourth
straight
day,
worked
the
ninth
for his
ninth
save.
Nicholas
Castellanos
also
homered
for
Detroit.
After
Dan
Otero
gave up
a run
and left
two on
for
Miller
in the
seventh,
Jones
and Pete
Kozma
hit
back-to-back
RBI
doubles
before
walks by
Victor
Martinez
and Niko
Goodrum
loaded
the
bases
with two
outs.
Miller
then
walked
John
Hicks to
force in
the
go-ahead
run.
“I
was
looking
for a
good
pitch to
hit, but
he
wasn’t
even
coming
close,”
Hicks
said.
“He
threw a
strike
on 3-0,
when I
was
taking
all the
way, but
nothing
else was
near the
strike
zone.”
Miller
wasn’t
sure
what
went
wrong.
“I
wasn’t
going to
let
Victor
hurt me,
and I
had to
tip my
cap to
Goodrum
for a
great
at-bat,”
Miller
said.
“Hicks,
though,
was just
horrible.
There is
no
excuse
for
that.”
The
Indians
loaded
the
bases
with no
one out
in the
eighth
against
Daniel
Stumpf,
but
Brandon
Guyer
struck
out and
Jason
Kipnis
hit into
an
inning-ending
double
play.
Tigers
manager
Ron
Gardenhire
planned
to stick
with
Stumpf
regardless
— he
didn’t
have a
choice,
since he
was out
of
usable
relief
pitchers.
He did
try to
bluff
Indians
manager
Terry
Francona,
though.
“We
told
Buck
(Farmer)
to stand
there
but not
throw a
pitch,”
Gardenhire
said.
“But
Stumpf
was a
live arm
and we
needed
him to
get
himself
out of
the mess
he had
created.”
Gardenhire
ended up
using
Greene
in the
ninth
despite
wanting
to rest
him.
Guyer
hit a
first-pitch
fastball
into the
Tigers
bullpen
for his
first
career
grand
slam in
the
first
inning
off
starter
Francisco
Liriano.
Jones
led off
the
bottom
of the
inning
with his
third
homer,
the 14th
hit off
Josh
Tomlin
this
season,
but Erik
Gonzalez
made it
5-1 with
a home
run in
the
second.
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