Avilas walk-off hit gives Tigers series win over Yanks................3-2 DETROIT -- Kyle Lobstein is, for the mean time, a relative unknown pitching amongst a rotation stacked with several of the biggest names in baseball. On Thursday afternoon against the Yankees at Comerica Park, he fit right in. Lobsteins six solid innings allowed the Tigers to take Thursdays rubber game from New York, 3-2. Victor Martinez doubled through the shift to lead off the bottom of the ninth, and Alex Avila sent the Tigers to a walk-off victory with a deep single off the right-field wall. Lobstein struggled with some control problems early in his first Major League start -- and second big league appearance -- but worked through them nicely. One of the two runs scored against him, off only four hits, was unearned. He retired the last eight batters he faced in order -- a day after nine straight Yankees collected hits off Detroit ace David Price. Detroit manufactured its first run in the same manner it has used to produce so many this season -- a sacrifice fly. After Nick Castellanos and Don Kelly each singled in the second, Avila skied one to center than was plenty deep to allow Castellanos to score the games first run. New York tied the game in the third -- thanks in part to a Castellanos throwing error -- before going ahead in the fourth. After Carlos Beltran doubled Martin Prado to third, Brian McCann got the job done with an RBI groundout for a 2-1 lead. But the Tigers knotted things in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by Rajai Davis and kept the Yankees at bay with scoreless relief appearances form Blaine Hardy, Joba Chamberlain and Phil Coke. Coke struck out McCann with runners on the corners in the top of the ninth to keep the game tied. With the miniature, three-game homestand now in the rearview mirror, the Tigers now embark on an eight-game road trip that will consist of four games apiece against the White Sox and Indians. Detroit is now tied for the second American League Wild Card spot with Seattle.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:01:11 +0000
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