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Javier Baez continued his hot streak on Friday night, belting the Grand Slam to beat the Detroit Tigers 5-1 to Arizona Diamondbacks at Phoenix.
Robbie Grossman hit a double run score and Jeimer Candelario scored two hits in Detroit. It snaps slides from 3 games and has won the last 12 games for the third time.
Baez has hit four home runs in the last six games after enduring a severe slump in his club's first season. He signed a six-year, $ 140 million contract as an off-season free agent.
Arizona has lost fifth place in four consecutive games in the last six contests. Diamondbacks hit three times, all singles.
Detroit's Ronnie Garcia (2-2) gave up one run and three hits in the 5 1/3 innings. He hit three and walked two.
Combined four reliefs to make Diamondbacks a no-hit no-run in the final 32/3 innings. Alex Lange got 2 outs in 6th place, Michael Fulmer in 7th place, Andrew Chafin in perfect 8th place and Gregory Soto in perfect 9th place with 2 outs.
Arizona's Merrill Kelly (6-5) gave up 4 runs and 7 hits in 6 innings. He hit five and walked one.
Baez came and was dropped by Kelly on a high-belt curved ball and sent 459 feet to a stand in the center left field. It was Baez's team's seventh best homer of the season.
Arizona got on the scoreboard fourth when Christian Walker and David Peralta became singles with one out and Walker scored on Joshua Rojas' sacrifice fly.
Detroit tackled the run in the 8th inning. Miguel Cabrera picked Sean Poppen in one out, and Pinch runner Willi Castro scored from the beginning with a Grossman double to deep left landing just inside the foul line.
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