Facing elimination, the Tigers fell into an early hole on Wednesday. The Mariners scored early, then they scored again, then they added another insurance run in the top of the fifth. Halfway through the game, the Tigers were almost all-the-way finished. Their own fans were booing.
And suddenly, they were back.
Three straight hits from the bottom of the order tied the game in the fifth, then Riley Greene — the team’s star players who’d been booed earlier in the game — crushed a long home run to put the Tigers ahead in the sixth. From there, the Tigers piled on to beat the Mariners 9-3 in Game 4 and force today’s winner-take-all Game 5.
💬 “I haven’t hit a ball like that in a while,” Greene said. “It feels pretty good, and I want to do it more often.”
Zach McKinstry was 3-for-4, Javier Báez, Gleyber Torres and Spencer Torkelson had two hits apiece — Báez homered — and Troy Melton pitched three scoreless innings of relief.
💬 “I know how much this matters to our fan base, to our city, to our season,” manager A.J. Hinch said. “We’re one more win away from bringing baseball back to Comerica again.”