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05/18 22:27 CDT Rookie Wenceel Prez hits three-run triple in six-run 7th as
Tigers beat Diamondbacks 8-3
Rookie Wenceel Prez hits three-run triple in six-run 7th as Tigers beat
Diamondbacks 8-3
By JACK THOMPSON
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) --- Wenceel Prez hit a three-run triple to break open a close
game and Jack Flaherty picked up his first victory of the season as the Detroit
Tigers rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-3 on Saturday night.
Detroit scored six runs --- all with two outs --- in the seventh inning to take
a 6-2 lead. Flaherty (1-3), who had pitched well most of the season, seemed
headed for another defeat before the Tigers mounted their comeback.
Prez had two triples, Javier Bez had four hits and the Tigers got 11 of their
15 hits in the last three innings to take the first two games of the three-game
series.
Until the sixth it was a pitchers' duel between Flaherty and Zac Gallen. Each
struck out six in the first three innings.
Arizona broke through in the sixth when Ketel Marte tripled to drive in the
first run and extend his career-high hitting streak to 17 games, the longest
current streak in the majors. Joc Pederson followed with a base hit to score
Marte.
But Detroit, held scoreless after scoring 13 on Friday night, answered in the
seventh against Gallen (5-3). Doubles by Gio Urshela and Bez --- the latter
with two outs --- got the Tigers on the board. Former Diamondbacks catcher
Carson Kelly followed with a single to tie the score and knock out his former
batterymate.
Joe Mantiply relieved Gallen and Riley Greene doubled, sending Kelly to third.
Mark Canha was intentionally walked to load the bases for Prez, who tripled to
left center to score all three. He later came home on Gio Urshela's infield hit
to cap the scoring for the inning.
Prez added a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the Tigers' two-run eighth to
finish with four RBIs.
Flaherty retired the first nine hitters he faced, striking out six, before
Corbin Carroll tripled leading off the fourth. Flaherty stranded him at third
with two strikeouts and an infield out.
Flaherty allowed five hits, walked two and struck out nine in six innings. He
threw 98 pitches.
Gallen struck out 10 and walked nobody in 6 2/3 innings. He allowed seven hits
and was charged with three runs.
Bez, who had three hits Friday night in Detroit's 13-0 win, had four more hits
Saturday - two doubles and two singles. In his career at Chase Field, mostly
with the Chicago Cubs, he has a .371 average.
A Mexican heritage night promotion drew a crowd of 35,326.
RECOGNITION
Kelly and LHP Andrew Chafin received their National League championship rings
in a ceremony before the game. Both were members of the pennant-winning
Diamondbacks last season.
PERFECT DAY
Saturday was the 20th anniversary of Randy Johnson's perfect game against the
Braves in Atlanta. Johnson, at 40 years and 251 days, is the oldest of the 24
pitchers to have thrown a perfect game. The Hall of Fame lefty struck out 13 in
the Diamondbacks' 2-0 victory.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Diamondbacks: SS Geraldo Perdomo and CF Alek Thomas took live at-bats on
Friday. Manager Torey Lovullo said Perdomo is a "couple weeks" away from a
return.
NEXT
Detroit RHP Matt Manning (0-1, 4.37) faces Arizona LHP Jordan Montgomery (2-2,
4.76) in Sunday's series finale.
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