Tigers claw back in Game 4, force decider vs. M's

DETROIT -- Riley Greene and Javier Báez homered successful a four-run sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers kept their play live with a 9-3 win implicit the Seattle Mariners successful Game 4 of the American League Division Series.

The Tigers forced a Game 5 by winning astatine Comerica Park for the archetypal clip successful much than a month. They went 0-8 aft Tarik Skubal's 6-0 triumph implicit the Chicago White Sox connected Sept. 6, including Seattle's 8-4 win connected Tuesday.

The bid decider volition beryllium Friday successful Seattle, with Skubal facing George Kirby.

After Detroit tied the crippled with 3 runs successful the fifth, Greene gave the Tigers a 4-3 vantage with a leadoff homer disconnected Gabe Speier successful the sixth.

Spencer Torkelson followed with a treble and scored Detroit's 5th tally connected Zach McKinstry's azygous earlier Báez made it 7-3 with his sixth postseason homer.

Gleyber Torres became the 3rd Tigers All-Star to homer erstwhile helium led disconnected the seventh with a changeable to close earlier Báez's eighth-inning groundout brought successful Detroit's ninth run.

Troy Melton, Detroit's Game 1 starter, picked up the triumph with 3 scoreless innings of relief.

The archetypal 4½ innings looked similar different Tigers disaster.

Casey Mize allowed 1 tally portion striking retired six batters successful the archetypal 3 innings, but needed 54 pitches to bash it. That whitethorn person played a portion successful A.J. Hinch's determination to nonstop lefty Tyler Holton to the mound for the 4th inning.

The determination didn't enactment -- Holton faced 3 batters and near with the bases loaded and nary 1 out. Hinch brought successful set-up antheral Kyle Finnegan, who got Victor Robles to crushed into a run-scoring treble play earlier J.P. Crawford popped out.

The Mariners, though, got to Finnegan successful the fifth. Randy Arozarena led disconnected with a single, took 2nd connected a chaotic transportation and scored connected Cal Raleigh's azygous -- his seventh deed of the series. That made it 3-0, expanding the booing from an aggravated location crowd.

Dillon Dingler's RBI treble got the Tigers connected the committee with 1 retired successful the 5th -- the archetypal tally Detroit had scored against Mariners starter Bryce Miller successful 23⅓ innings.

Speier came in, but Jahmai Jones lined his archetypal transportation down the left-field enactment for a pinch-hit treble to marque it 3-2 earlier Báez tied the crippled with a basal hit.