Jesus Sanchez grounded into a forceout to drive in the game’s only run as the visiting Miami Marlins edged the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in 10 innings on Tuesday night.
There were eight total hits in a pitchers’ duel between Marlins left-hander Ryan Weathers and Tigers right-hander Reese Olson.
Weathers set down the first 15 batters he faced, and he allowed three singles without a walk while recording four strikeouts in eight innings. Olson also gave up three singles without a walk while striking out six in eight innings.
In the top of the 10th inning, Josh Bell singled off Alex Lange (0-3) to move automatic runner Bryan De La Cruz from second base to third. De La Cruz scored on Sanchez’s fielder’s-choice grounder to second.
Detroit’s Riley Greene started the bottom of the 10th inning at second base and reached third on a long flyout but was left stranded when Wenceel Perez flied out to end the game.
The Marlins’ Tanner Scott (2-4) pitched a scoreless ninth inning and was credited with the win. A.J. Puk got the last three outs for his first save.
Bell, the only Marlins player with more than one hit, was the lone baserunner in the first four innings. He had a two-out single in the top of the first. Miami’s Otto Lopez led off the fifth with an infield single but was erased on a double play.
Perez became the Tigers’ first baserunner when he lined a single into right field in the sixth inning. He was quickly removed from the basepaths, as Javier Baez bounced into a double play.
Sanchez had a two-out single in the top of the seventh for the Marlins before Olson struck out Lopez.
Mark Canha delivered a two-out single up the middle in the bottom of the seventh before Greene bounced into a fielder’s choice.
Olson completed his outing with a 1-2-3 inning in the eighth, including a strikeout of Nick Gordon. Perez singled again with two outs in the eighth. Baez then hit into a fielder’s choice.
The Tigers’ Matt Vierling reached base in the ninth inning on a one-out single against Scott, and Canha walked with two outs. Greene then grounded out, leading to extra innings.
–Field Level Media
