Brennan Boesch and the Detroit Tigers are on anoth

DETROIT — Brennan Boesch and the Detroit Tigers are on another streak, and this one is a lot more pleasant.Boesch homered and drove in three runs and the Tigers took advantage of some sloppy fielding to beat the New York Yankees for the third straight time, 6-3 on Thursday. Detroit Tigers Jerseys Detroit had lost seven straight before taking the final three games of a four-game series.”Hopefully it gives us some more confidence playing a team like the Yankees and beating them three out of four,” Boesch said. “I think we’re going to play with some momentum and some more passion and get some wins on the road.”
Detroit has had an up-and-down start to the season. The Tigers won four straight immediately before their seven-game skid. They’re now on the upswing again as they head to Toronto.”To take three out of four from a team like that is a big lift,” Porcello said. “Especially off the two series we were coming off of. We needed these games, for sure.”
A.J. Burnett held Detroit hitless until the sixth inning but made an error of his own that led to Detroit’s run in the first. He allowed five runs — only two earned — on three hits, striking out five with one walk in seven innings.The Yankees led 2-1 in the sixth when Ramon Santiago hit a hard single to right for Detroit’s first hit. Santiago moved to second on a sacrifice, and Boesch’s two-out single up the middle tied the game.Victor Martinez singled to start the seventh before Burnett’s control deserted him. He walked Magglio Ordonez and then hit Ryan Raburn,Crhstian Louboutin Boots Sample Sale, who was squaring to bunt. Brandon Inge put the Tigers ahead 3-2 with a sacrifice fly. MLB Jerseys The Yankees nearly got out of the inning with no further damage, but Nunez threw high past first baseman Mark Teixeira on a routine grounder by Don Kelly, allowing two more runs to score.”I feel comfortable fielding the ball, but I’ve made some bad throws,” Nunez said through a translator. “I have to keep working on that.”
Alex Rodriguez was supposed to have a chance to rest along with Jeter. Eric Chavez started in his place at third base, but Chavez fractured the fifth metatarsal in his left foot while running out a fourth-inning triple and had to come out of the game.Rodriguez made a rare pinch-running appearance and then stayed in the game. According to STATS LLC, Rodriguez last pinch-ran in 1995 for the Seattle Mariners in the decisive fifth game of the ALDS against the Yankees. He scored the tying run in the eighth inning of that game, which the Mariners went on to win in 11.After Chavez’s RBI triple, Rodriguez came in and scored on Nunez’s single that put the Yankees ahead 2-1. Replica Jerseys The lead didn’t last, though.New York had been the only American League team without a three-game losing streak.Porcello has allowed two or fewer runs in each of his last four starts. He threw a career-high 120 pitches Thursday. Daniel Schlereth pitched the eighth, and Jose Valverde allowed a run in the ninth while closing the game out.