Detroit 9, Kansas City 5
When: 8:10 PM ET, Friday, September 3, 2010
Where: Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri
Temperature:
71°
Umpires:
Home -
Scott Barry, 1B -
Dan Iassogna, 2B -
Jerry Meals, 3B -
Dale Scott
Attendance:
17835
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Will Rhymes delivered a go-ahead, two-run triple in the 11th inning, lifting the visiting Detroit Tigers to a 9-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.
Ryan Raburn homered and drove in two runs for Detroit, which rallied from an early 4-0 deficit against reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke.
Jesse Chavez (2-3) took the loss, giving up four runs on three hits in the 11th.
Ryan Perry (3-5) worked the final two innings in relief for Detroit.
Brandon Inge had a two-run single and Alex Avila had an RBI base hit to knock Greinke out of the game in a four-run seventh.
After Raburn hit a solo homer in the top of the eighth, Alex Gordon answered with a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth for the Royals to send the game into extra innings.
Greinke was charged with four runs on six hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Kansas City jumped on Tigers starter Jeremy Bonderman for four runs in the second. Brayan Pena had an RBI double, Yuniesky Betancourt added a two-run single and Gregor Blanco tripled in a run.
Bonderman left after 7 1/3 innings, allowing four runs and seven hits.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Detroit |
|
Kansas City |
|
Jeremy Bonderman |
Player |
Zack Greinke
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
7.1 |
IP |
6.1 |
|
3 |
Strikeouts |
3 |
|
7 |
Hits |
6 |
|
4.91 |
ERA |
5.68 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Detroit
|
13 |
1 |
18 |
.302 |
14 |
6 |
8 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| Kansas City
|
9 |
1 |
15 |
.225 |
16 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
0 |
1 |