Riley Greene homered and drove in four runs, Gleyber Torres blasted a pair of solo homers and the host Detroit Tigers rolled past the Cincinnati Reds, 11-5, on Friday.
Torres drove in three runs while Javier Baez had three hits, including a homer, scored three runs and drove in two more. Jake Rogers added two hits and drove in two runs.
Keider Montero (3-1) gave up two runs in five innings to pick up the win.
TJ Friedl and Elly Da La Cruz homered for Cincinnati. De La Cruz and Tyler Stephenson each had three hits and two RBIs. Nick Martinez (4-7) gave up four runs in five innings in the loss.
Torres, leading off the bottom of the first, ambushed the first pitch he saw from Martinez, smacking a fastball over the left field wall.
Detroit left two runners stranded in the second. Friedl then led off the third by ripping a hanging Montero slider over the right field wall.
With two out in the third, Greene crushed a Martinez fastball over the visitors’ bullpen in left-center field to give the Tigers a 2-1 lead.
The Reds squandered an opportunity in the fourth. Singles by Spencer Steer, Connor Joe and Matt McLain loaded the bases with two out. Friedl popped up a 2-2 fastball from Montero to leave them stranded.
Baez gave Detroit some breathing room in the bottom of the inning when he lofted a Martinez changeup that bounced off the top of the left field wall and into the stands.
De La Cruz made it 3-2 in the fifth when he pounded a knuckle curve over the right field wall.
The Tigers pushed across four runs in the sixth for a 7-2 advantage. Walks to Baez and Rogers, sandwiching a Zach McKinstry single, loaded the bases with no outs. Torres hit a sacrifice fly to score Baez. Jahmai Jones reached on an infield single to load the bases again and Greene cleared them with a line drive double to left.
Torres’ second homer of the game came against Ian Gibaut in the seventh. Rogers had two RBIs in a three-run eighth.
–Field Level Media
