DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – Finally getting a baseball game in after two days of weather delays due to rain and cold weather, Detroit took two games from Cleveland in one-run games, 4-3, and 1-0. Detroit is now 7-9 and moved to 4-3 at home.
“Games like today are what we hope for every single time,” said manager A.J. Hinch about Eduardo Rodriguez who won game two. “We don’t expect him to be perfect, but the fact that he can go out and pitch on a mission, wanting to do well, it’s just his competitive nature. It’s not trying to make up for lost time. To me, it’s just him.”
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Rodriguez went eight innings with 10 strikeout and a 0.00 ERA not giving up a run holding the Guardians to just four hits. He retired the side in the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth innings. Jason Foley came in the ninth to record the save recording one strikeout.
Riley Greene was the hero in the game with a 354-foot solo home run in the sixth inning as Detroit took the double header, 1-0.
In game one, Detroit had a 4-3 walk-off victory as Kerry Carpenter homered to right field in the bottom of the ninth inning. Alex Lange earned the win pitching the final inning recording one strikeout. Matthew Boyd started the game going five innings with four strikeouts and three earned runs.
Carpenter led Detroit with a double and home run for two RBI going 3-of-5 in the game. Greene also went 3-of-5. Javier Baez recorded two RBI.
Detroit took a 1-0 lead in the first on a Baez sacrifice fly but Cleveland scored three in the fourth for the two-run lead. Baez cut the lead lead to one with a single to left field in the fifth and then Carpenter tied the game doubling in Green in the fifth to tie the game at three. Carpenter then had the walk-off home run in the ninth inning.
Detroit has now won four games in a row with three on walk-off hits. Carpenter said after game one, “It’s been fun. That’s blast (winning like that).”
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