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Reuters
On Tuesday, Kelly Carpenter hit a home run for the second straight game as the Detroit Tigers defeated the hosts Cleveland Guardians, 4-3.
Carpenter's first career home run came in the second game of Monday's doubleheader. The Tigers had an eight straight losing streak in that contest.
Carpenter got on base in his fourth inning, while Harold Castro hit his third and drove his two runs out of his other for the Tigers.
Garrett Hill (3-3) limited Cleveland to his one run and his four hits in his sixth inning, while Gregory his Soto unsettled him in his 22nd save. survived 9th place.
Zac Pressac gave up all of Detroit's runs while pitching 5 1/3 innings. Stephen Kwan scored his three hits and one run, while José Ramirez drove in a pair.
Cleveland manager Terry Francona was ejected in the ninth inning for arguing over his chips for a foul called a strikeout.
A lucky bounce and an overturned call allowed the Tigers to score his three runs in the first. Javier Baez reached on a two-out walk and stole second. Castro then hit the bouncer who hit the bag down the middle. Baez tried to score on the play and seemed to be thrown out at home.
A video review found that catcher Austin Hedges was not giving Baez enough sliding his lane and the runs counted. Carpenter then drilled a high fastball over the right field wall.
Cleveland recovered his one of those runs in the bottom of the inning. Kwan and Ahmed Rosario hit back-to-back to send the runners into the corner. Kwan scored on Ramirez's fielder-selected ground ball.
Detroit won his 4-1 in his third. Victor Reyes singled to lead off and scored on Castro's one-out double.
Castro failed to catch Tyler's Freeman ground ball from shortstop Baez at first, allowing Cleveland to come a little closer in the seventh. Freeman scored on a fly ball that put him third and Miles scored on his straw ground ball.
Cleveland cut the Tigers' lead to his 4-3 in the bottom of the inning with Joe Jimenez. Rosario took the lead on triples and scored on Ramirez's single.
Freeman doubled to put him ahead of the ninth, and a sacrifice advanced him to third. Straw hit a foul chip and Francona was sent off. Kwan then hit a comeback to end the game.
– Field Level Media
