Four home runs over Green Monster power Detroit Tigers in 6-2 win over Boston Red Sox

The Detroit Tigers cleared the Green Monster at Fenway Park.

Four times.

The quartet of home runs over the 37-foot, 2-inch wall — Kerry Carpenter in the second and eighth innings, Eric Haase in the fifth inning and Spencer Torkelson in the sixth inning — powered the Tigers to a 6-2 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday in the second of three games in the series.

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The Tigers (53-64), despite scratching shortstop Javier Báez with right knee soreness, used the four home runs from three power hitters to support right-hander Matt Manning in a bounce-back performance.

Manning allowed one unearned run on two hits and three walks with one strikeout across 5⅓ innings.

Facing right-hander Brayan Bello, Carpenter put the Tigers ahead, 1-0, to begin the second inning by crushing a slider that hung in the middle of the strike zone for a 361-foot solo home run to left.

An RBI single from Riley Greene extended the Tigers' advantage to 2-0 in the third inning.

When the Red Sox gained momentum, Haase countered their lone run in the fourth inning with a solo home run off Bello's eighth-pitch cutter in the top of the fifth inning for a 3-1 lead.

It was Haase's first homer since June 14.

Matt Vierling grounded into a forceout later in the fifth, which was enough to score another run for a 4-1 margin.

In the sixth, Torkelson teed off on left-handed reliever Brennan Bernardino's sixth-pitch sinker, also in the middle of the strike zone, for a 417-foot solo home run to left-center, exiting with a 104.6 mph velocity.

It marked Torkelson's 18th homer of the season and put the Tigers ahead, 5-1.

Torkelson, who finished 4-for-4, has a .229 batting average and .724 OPS in 115 games.

Carpenter — for the second time in his 105-game career — blasted two home runs in one game. He cleared the Green Monster again for a 336-foot solo home run off right-handed reliever Kyle Barraclough's middle-middle four-seam fastball with one out in the eighth inning.

He has 15 homers in 74 games this season.

Saturday was the Tigers' third game this season with at least four home runs. They're 3-0 in those games, and 5-3 when launching at least three homers.

Manning deals without strikeouts

Manning, who worked around a pair of walks in the second inning, didn't concede a hit until Justin Turner's leadoff single in the fourth inning. The 25-year-old would have kept the Red Sox from scoring, if not for Nick Maton's fielding error.

The third baseman tried to field the ball while dealing with a shadow from Fenway Park's grandstand roof, but the ball bounced over his glove and into left field. Turner scored from second base with two outs in the fourth inning, cutting the Tigers' lead to 2-1.

Other than that, Manning shut down the Red Sox despite his lack of whiffs.

He faced two batters in the sixth inning — Masataka Yoshida (single) and Turner (flyout) — before getting replaced by left-handed reliever Tyler Holton, who recorded the final two outs.

Manning threw 51 four-seam fastballs (56.7%), 18 sliders (20%), 15 curveballs (16.7%) and six changeups (6.7%). He entered Saturday's start having thrown his fastball 46.3% of the time in his first 11 starts.

The Red Sox whiffed seven times, at five fastballs and two sliders.

Turner hit a solo home run off right-handed reliever Beau Brieske in the eighth inning for Boston's second and final run. Right-handed reliever Jason Foley, who returned Saturday from the bereavement list, pitched the final 1⅔ innings for his fifth save.

Contact Evan Petzold at epetzold@freepress.com or follow him on Twitter @EvanPetzold.

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Tigers blast 4 homers in 6-2 win over Boston Red Sox