Andy Ibanez clubbed a solo homer and a three-run shot during his 4-for-4 night and Ryan Vilade recorded his first three career RBIs as the visiting Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Guardians 11-7 on Tuesday.
Ibanez led off the game against Cleveland’s Logan Allen and hit his first homer of the season. He then gave Detroit a 5-2 lead in the second with a three-run blast over the right field wall.
Vilade, just called up from Triple-A Toledo, delivered a two-run single in the third for his first major league hit to tie the score at 7-7. He also drove home a run with his single in the seventh to help the Tigers even the three-game series and snap a four-game slide in which they had totaled only seven runs.
Tyler Holton (3-0) and three other fellow Detroit relievers held Cleveland to just three hits over seven scoreless innings.
Josh Naylor clubbed a two-run homer — his ninth long ball of the season — and Jose Ramirez had three hits and two RBIs for the Guardians, who had won three straight.
Ibanez sent a 2-0 pitch from Allen over the high left field wall as Detroit opened the game with a homer for the second consecutive contest. However, Tigers right-hander Kenta Maeda surrendered Will Brennan’s two-run double to deep center in the bottom of the first.
Detroit answered in the second, as Jake Rogers hit the first of his two doubles and scored on Javier Baez’s single. With Baez on, Allen walked Carson Kelly, then Ibanez went deep to right field.
Cleveland scored five times against Maeda in the second. Estevan Florial delivered an RBI double, and Ramirez’s two-run single made it 5-5. Naylor then homered to right to give the Guardians a 7-5 lead.
In Detroit’s half of the third, Riley Greene singled and went to third on Spencer Torkelson’s double that chased Allen. Both runners came home on Vilade’s single off Pedro Avila (1-1).
Allen was charged with seven runs on seven hits and two walks in 2 1/3 innings. Maeda gave up seven runs on five hits and three walks in two innings.
Detroit went ahead for good when Ibanez singled in the fourth, went to third on Wenceel Perez’s single and scored on Matt Vierling’s double-play ball. Vierling added a two-run single in the eighth.
–Field Level Media
