The Detroit Tigers scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox and their closer Jonathan Papelbon by the score of 10-9. Curtis Granderson had a RBI groundout and Placido Palanco had the game winning hit in the ninth inning for the Tigers.
The Tigers were led by Palanco who finished the game with three RBI. Ivan Rodriguez wasn’t too far behind as he had two rbi in the game. Carlos Guillen, Magglio Ordonez, Gary Sheffield, Matt Joyce, and Granderson all had one rbi in the game.
Todd Jones got the win for the Tigers as he pitched the ninth inning. Jones is now 1-0 on the season.
Tigers starting pitcher Armando Galarraga was pulled out of the game after 5 1/3 innings as he gave up seven hits and five runs. Zach Miner and Francisco Cruceta both gave up two runs as they pitched in relief.
It wasn’t the best outing by the Tigers pitchers that is for sure, they were lucky that the offense put up 10 runs on the scoreboard and pulled out the win. We will have to see if this win will give them any momentum to carry forward into the next series.
