Major League Baseball
Detroit 6, Baltimore 5
When: 1:10 PM ET, Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Where: Comerica Park, Detroit, Michigan
Temperature: 36°
Umpires: Home - David Rackley, 1B - Larry Vanover, 2B - Mark Carlson, 3B - Chris Guccione
Attendance: 15178
Dixon Machado hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, allowing the Detroit Tigers to pull out a 6-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.

Machado ripped a 1-0 fastball from Pedro Araujo (1-2) for his first homer of the season.

John Hicks hit a three-run homer for Detroit in the eighth. Miguel Cabrera homered on his 35th birthday and Jeimer Candelario also rapped a solo shot in the Tigers' second straight win after five losses.

Shane Greene (1-0) blew a save opportunity in the top of the ninth, giving up a homer to Luis Sardinas, but wound up with the win.

Tigers starter Matthew Boyd allowed just one run on two hits with six strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings. Boyd became the first Tigers left-hander since at least 1908 to throw six or more innings and allow one or no runs in his first three starts of the season.

Manny Machado had two hits, a run scored and an RBI for Baltimore, while Danny Valencia added a solo homer.

Valencia put the Orioles on the board with his one-out homer in the second.

Candelario evened the score with his homer to right to lead off the third.

Cabrera gave Detroit a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the sixth. Leading off, he jumped on a 1-1 slider and ripped a liner that just cleared the left-field wall.

The Orioles grabbed the lead in the eighth. Trey Mancini smacked a leadoff double and Craig Gentry followed with a bunt single. Machado's single up the middle knocked in Mancini and Adam Jones' sacrifice fly brought home Gentry. Chris Davis banged a single off the left-field wall, scoring Machado for a 4-2 advantage.

Detroit regained the lead at 5-4 in the bottom of the inning on Hicks' first homer. He jumped on the first pitch he saw from reliever Darren O'Day and drilled it over the left-field wall.

Pinch hitter Sardinas golfed a pitch over the right-field wall leading off the ninth to tie it.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Baltimore   Detroit
Kevin Gausman Player Matthew Boyd
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.0 IP 6.1
4 Strikeouts 6
9 Hits 2
3.00 ERA 1.42
Hitting
Baltimore   Detroit
Manny Machado Player Miguel Cabrera
2 Hits 2
1 RBI 1
0 HR 1
3 TB 6
.500 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Baltimore 7 2 15 .212 12 10 5 4 0 0
Detroit 13 4 27 .361 14 7 6 0 0 0