Tigers 4, Yankees 3 (12): Alex Avila belted a one-out homer in the top of the 12th inning as visiting Detroit evened the four-game series at one apiece.

Avila also had a tying RBI single in the seventh inning and Andrew Romine swatted a solo homer as the first-place Tigers remained 4 1/2 games ahead of Kansas City in the American League Central. Joe Nathan got the final three outs for his 23rd save in the Detroit debut of David Price, who struck out 10 and allowed three runs in 8 2/3 innings.

Brian McCann and Martin Prado homered and Jacoby Ellsbury added two hits and an RBI for New York, which had its three-game winning streak snapped and squandered a chance to move into a virtual tie with Toronto for the second wild card. Matt Daley (0-1), the Yankees' sixth reliever, coughed up the game-winning blast while starter Hiroki Kuroda went seven innings, giving up three runs on six hits.

Kuroda was in a 1-0 hole four batters into the game after giving up singles to Rajai Davis and Miguel Cabrera and a sacrifice fly to Victor Martinez, but he set down 14 in a row to allow the Yankees to forge ahead. McCann belted a one-out homer to deep right in the second and Ellsbury followed Brendan Ryan's double in the third with one of his own for a 2-1 lead.

Prado hit his first homer as a Yankee to lead off the fifth, but Romine answered with a leadoff shot in the top of the sixth before the Tigers bunched three singles in the seventh, with Avila plating Martinez with the tying run. The Yankees had their 16th straight game decided by two runs or fewer, the longest stretch in the majors since Baltimore's 16-game string in 1975.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Tigers RF Torii Hunter exited the game in the ninth with a left hand contusion after he was hit by a pitch from RHP Dellin Betances, who became the sixth New York reliever to record 100 strikeouts in a season. ... Yankees SS Derek Jeter's fifth-inning single moved him within two hits of Honus Wagner (3,430) for sixth place on the all-time list. ... The Tigers signed RHP Jim Johnson, who had back-to-back 50-save seasons with Baltimore before he was dealt to Oakland in the offseason, to a minor-league contract Tuesday, while the Yankees signed LHP Rich Hill to take the spot of LHP Matt Thornton, who was claimed off waivers by Washington.