Carlos Guillen homered to lead off the bottom of the 10th inning and lift the Detroit Tigers to a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday.
Guillen connected off of Pirates reliever Brendan Donnelly (2-1), who came on to start the 10th and was promptly taken deep by the first batter he faced.
Phil Coke (4-0) picked up the win, working around a walk in the 10th.
Pittsburgh led 2-1 until the Tigers scored two in the seventh, aided by an error by Pittsburgh first baseman Ryan Doumit. The Pirates tied the game, 3-3, on an RBI single by Neil Walker in the eighth.
Ryan Church had an RBI double in the first and Garrett Jones homered in the fourth to put Pittsburgh up 2-1.
Pittsburgh | Detroit | |
Paul Maholm | Player | Jeremy Bonderman |
No Decision | W/L | No Decision |
6.0 | IP | 7.0 |
2 | Strikeouts | 6 |
8 | Hits | 6 |
1.50 | ERA | 2.57 |
Pittsburgh | Detroit | |
Garrett Jones | Player | Johnny Damon |
2 | Hits | 3 |
1 | RBI | 0 |
1 | HR | 0 |
5 | TB | 3 |
.500 | Avg | .600 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Pittsburgh | 9 | 1 | 15 | .243 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Detroit | 13 | 1 | 17 | .351 | 26 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 |