GAME RECAP
Impact player
Victor Martinez, Detroit
The switch-hitting slugger reached base five times, including the leadoff walk in the sixth that helped Tigers tie the score.
BY THE NUMBERS
2 Hits for Joe Mauer, only his third multi-hit game in his past 21 starts.
3.26 ERA by Tigers starting pitchers — who did not include Cy Young winners Justin Verlander or Max Scherzer — this weekend.
122,771 Comerica Park attendance for the three-game series, Detroit's largest crowds of the season.
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