Tigers complete sweep of Red Sox
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The Tigers walked off the Red Sox for a second straight night to complete a three-game series sweep. Justyn-Henry Malloy’s pinch-hit RBI single with two outs in the ninth scored Andy Ibáñez for a 6-5 win at Comerica Park.
Wednesday’s power breakfast didn’t produce a sweep of the Brewers, but the Guardians have still won nine of 12 series to open the season. Thursday is an off day, a day to hit the snooze button three or four extra times. Still, the Guards need some energy to pack for a 10-game trip to Cincinnati, Minneapolis and Detroit that begins Friday.
Both teams scored in the first minute of play and the Spokane Chiefs and the Medicine Hat Tigers were tied 1-1 at the end of the first period in Game 4 of the Western Hockey League Championship at Spokane Arena on Wednesday.
After hitting just .111 in 18 games this season, Detroit Tigers infielder Jace Jung has been sent to Triple-A Toledo. Outfielder Akil Baddoo has been called up
To emphasize the fact that the Tigers could not have been the darlings of baseball last September without contributions grand and microscopic, from late March in Chicago all the way to the Division Series in Detroit.
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But with Baddoo swinging a hot, left-handed bat at Toledo, they decided to reconfigure the roster. With Jung gone, Zach McKinstry will move back to the infield and play more at third base, along with right-handed hitting Andy Ibáñez.
Pinch hitter Justyn-Henry Malloy hit a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth as the host Detroit Tigers completed a three-game sweep with a 6-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday.
Hunter Dobbins is slated to take the mound for Boston against Tarik Skubal for Detroit.