Brennan Boesch scored Danny Worth on a sac fly in the bottom of the 8th inning, giving Detroit an 8-7 victory over Minnesota. Detroit came back from a 3-0 hole with a 6 run 5th inning, but Max Scherzer couldn't hold a 6-3 lead with 2 outs in the 7th.
I think Jim Leyland kept Scherzer in too long in allowing him to face Justin Morneau having thrown 100 pitches. He uncorked a wild pitch with 2 strikes to allow a run to score. Then he gave up a home run to Morneau, his second of the game, to surrender the lead. His line ended up being 7 runs allowed in 6.2 innings pitched. He didn't quite pitch that poorly, striking out 7, but Morneau took him deep twice.
Detroit again came back though. Al Alburqurque earned his 3rd victory for the season with an inning of 2 strikeout work. He's been racking up the decisions lately and is 3-1 on the season. Joaquin Benoit pitched the 9th to earn his 2nd save of the season. He struck out Morneau with 2 on and 1 out in the inning.
Brennan Boesch drove in 2 runs with a groundout and a sac fly. Not ideally what you want to do with runners on third, but at least he put the ball in play and plated the runs. Jhonny Peralta was 2-3 with an RBI double and a sac fly. Victor Martinez was 2-4 with an RBI double. Casper Wells had an RBI double and Austin Jackson drove in a run. Brandon Inge was 2-3 with a walk and Danny Worth was 2-4 in his first start as the revolving second baseman of the year.
The Tigers have upped their record to 28-26 on the season.
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