Marlins score game’s lone run in the 10th inning of a pitcher’s duel with Tigers
Jesus Sanchez drove in the game’s only run on a ground ball 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 as 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 shortstop.
Detroit’s Riley Greene started the bottom of the 10th inning at second base and reached third on a long fly ball but was left stranded as Wenceel Perez hit a fly ball 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 Riley 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.
