Yastrzemski’s bat, glove help Giants hold off Tigers 4-3
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mike Yastrzemski hit a two-run single and made an exquisite catch within the outfield on Miguel Cabrera’s sharp liner, and the San Francisco Giants held off the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Tuesday night time.
Giants lefty Carlos Rodón (7-4) allowed one run and 7 hits in six innings with 4 strikeouts and no walks. Rodón has permitted simply two runs over his final 27 innings.
Yastrzemski’s leaping catch on the run in proper subject within the eighth robbed Cabrera of a possible extra-base hit, serving to San Francisco enhance to 7-2 this season in interleague play.
Dominic Leone had walked simply six batters over his first 29 appearances earlier than issuing three free passes and giving up Willi Castro’s RBI single with two outs within the eighth. Camilo Doval relieved and struck out Jonathan Schoop, then completed for his twelfth save.
Doval bought Javier Báez to floor right into a game-ending double play, with the decision at first base upheld after a replay evaluation.
Cabrera bought the Tigers on the board with an RBI single within the sixth.
Evan Longoria hit a two-run single within the first because the Giants shortly bought to starter Tarik Skubal (5-6). The lefty was completed after 4 2/3 innings and hasn’t gone greater than 5 innings in 4 straight outings. A local of the East Bay suburb Hayward, Skubal yielded three runs and 4 hits and misplaced his fourth consecutive begin.
This marks the Tigers’ first journey to San Francisco since being swept by the Giants within the 2012 World Sequence, and their first go to for a regular-season collection since 2008.
HOMECOMING
Tigers rookie Spencer Torkelson remembers being within the stands cheering when San Francisco clinched the NL Championship Sequence in 2012 on the way in which to its second World Sequence crown in three years. Marco Scutaro secured a popup to finish it and smiled because the rain poured down when the Giants eradicated St. Louis.
“It was only a actually cool ambiance,” Torkelson mentioned. “I went to loads of Giants video games however that was one of many extra memorable ones.”
The 22-year-old Torkelson grew up within the wine nation North Bay metropolis of Petaluma, the place his preschool trainer painted a mural of then-Pac Bell Park on his bed room wall. He anticipated some 500 supporters to be within the stands cheering him in his homecoming — together with instant household like his mother and father, brother, grandma and uncle.
The highest choose within the 2020 beginner draft out of Arizona State, he already had a homecoming in Phoenix over the weekend when Detroit performed the Diamondbacks.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: RHP Miguel Pineda, working again from a damaged center finger on his pitching hand that has sidelined him since Could 15, will throw a bullpen at Triple-A Toledo on Wednesday and could possibly be in line to begin for the Tigers as quickly as Friday at residence towards Kansas Metropolis. … OF Austin Meadows returned from COVID-19 however remains to be coping with strains in each Achilles tendons the Tigers hope will not final lengthy. “Now we look forward to him to heal,” supervisor A.J. Hinch mentioned.
Giants: Supervisor Gabe Kapler is assured SS Brandon Crawford — positioned on the 10-day injured record Sunday with left knee irritation — shall be in much better well being for the stretch run after this stretch of time without work to get his physique proper. “Each day’s going to be slightly bit higher. We have now a sport plan now to get him again to full well being and full explosiveness and with a transparent head,” Kapler mentioned. “We’re enthusiastic about what he can deliver when he will get again to the membership.”
UP NEXT
RHP Rony García (2-2, 4.57 ERA) pitches the afternoon collection finale Wednesday for Detroit reverse LHP Alex Wooden (5-6, 5.05).
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Janie Mccauley, The Related Press
