Tigers vs. Red Sox Game Highlights (5/31/24) | MLB Highlights

One of several Red Sox pitchers who have really taken to the new approach that they wanted to make an emphasis on using those off speed pitches and a flare that's caught by Grissom elevating to a snow cone. Help from your friends does a great job catches this one almost past him. They're starting to see turn the corner and take another step. Riley Green closing in on his home run total from all of last year and he puts this one to center for a base hit a one out single for green. There goes the runner on 3 to 2 pitch swung on and missed throw high to second base. So a steal for Green as veering strikes out and two, there's a good example what makes so difficult that brings up Geo Ursa, a shot the other way by Ursa down for a base hit. They are around green. Here comes the throw to the plate out to Abreu takes the run away AJ Hinch, asking for a moment to take a look and he wants to review right up. The third base line won. Does a great job of the catching the tag. Let's see. If he gets that foot down in time, it appears that he gets that foot down. The throw was there? The tag was not Goldfields overturned. The runner safe Detroit. Their green scores one nothing Detroit. It shows the importance to that. 32 pitch strike. Three, Keith is up but the Tigers strike first and they'll deal with the veteran in Kent Maeda, the 36 year old in his ninth big league season return leadoff walk for Durant. I'll bring up now a ground ball to second base gathered up by Ib--ez down to Mckinstry. One little hesitation throw to first. Got it. Thought the hesitation. Little bobble may be in the glove but recovered didn't have the grip fired over to first popped up in the infielder. Fly, waves everybody off and makes the catch. So the red Sox strand the baserunner and it is one nothing Detroit threw one to Andy Ib--ez hit and miss he got him sinker down and away. Ha induces so many ground outs. Third most in the majors behind Max Fried that one hit in the air pretty deep. Raffaele has the wheels to track it down. What a find. He's been a 123 2nd throws a one out walk showing some frustration. He just has to look really comfortable in the first inning or this one, a few noncompetitive pitches for a guy that's normally around the strike zone. Grissom strikes out for the second out of inning. Number two, steady diet of off speed pitches there. You can see the split finger down action first pitch swinging David Hamilton. A ground ball single, aggressive turn from Smith at second when he scampers back to the bag. Second with two down here. Rafaella 12 swing and a miss finishes him off with the splitter. That's the best ending with the fastball splitter use. Maybe that we've seen in Kaya eight starts this year. Now, nine starts today. Quickly two down in the top of the third Red Sox trailing the Tigers one rare hit for a left hander against Green his first time green, a high drive right field pretty deep. That ball is down for a hit and off the wall. A two out double for Riley Green one oh high pop up into right field really toward the gap and Abreu gently over to his right is there to make the play and the inning is over a veteran. A couple of veterans, Maeda and Flaherty in their rotation. Maeda gets Abreu to chase a three pitch strikeout two down another killer split finger. He'll throw this a lot to lefties. Wong strikes out and Maeda laboring a little bit with an efficient nine pitch inning and he's up to four K's Devers Refsnyder and Dom smith for the Red Sox and hard deep left center trending towards the monster and off the top of it, Devers Jogs into second with a leadoff double. He's just so difficult to get out. He covers everything he can get to the fastball. I remember a few years ago he was one of the few guys that caught up the Aroldis Chapman fastball at Yankee Stadium. Very advanced Dominic Smith. Again. It's a lefty loaded. The 10, is ripped down the left field line. That's a base hit and that's going to tie the game. Devers comes home. Do smith in the second with a stand up double at last and we're tied at one payoff and this one is in the right for a base hit. They're going to hold up Smith at third and the Red Sox have made it 1st and 3rd with one out swing and a miss by Hamilton, a big strikeout for Maeda. It seems like Maeda needs really needs a pitch. He will go to that split finger to wiggle out of this inning, limiting the damage Raphaella trying to change the equation, a high fly ball, but it will clear the monster set on Raffaella with a towering home run and the Red Sox have the lead. Yeah, it's kind of been the Bugaboo of made and he allowed nine home runs for this start. There's a line drive off, the pitcher knocks it down, makes the flip with the glove in time to retire Mckinstry and immediately alex Cora will sprint out of the dugout to check on his pitcher. Boy, that's a terrific play. You throw a ball you 60 ft six inches away. Looks like it might have got him somewhere around the wrist or the forearm area gets through this inning makes his way to the dugout. The treading staff going to have a look at that broken bat one hopper to third Devers, no problem. Make sure the Red Sox will be checking in closely with a single and a strikeout and he swings and rips this one down the left field line, extra bases if fair into the corner, a fair ball rattling off the wall and Potters into second with a double. This one is drilled by Refsnyder Wade back to left and off. The monster wong scores. Refsnyder slides in safely at second and the Red Sox lead 5 to 1 another. Big two out hit from the Red Sox just like the three run homer from Raley. And it's the one that ends Maeda night Tigers go to their bullpen trailing by four. He's already in line for a win through 551. Boston and a different look for him. He's got general ideas kind of like a compression sleeve slider strike three called on the outside corner. That was perfect just his fourth strikeout but he has been so efficient. Got a lot of quick outs since he took that come falling behind a couple of hitters. This throws sales into right from Devers on what should have been a routine ground ball to get the lead runner. It's Colt. Keith zero for two tonight. Keith shoots this one to right, tough play, but the catch is made by Abreu and the Red Sox and their strong outfield defense comes through to bail out and Devers the nine hole hitter Rafael who does have a home run. This one is drilled deep left field way back in off the top of the wall. It's gone. It's a home run. Raffaella has another, a two run shot this time and a two homer night for sit on Raffaella to break this one open. Tonight is his first career multi homer game and Hau is pitching in the seventh inning for the seventh time in the last nine starts. Strike three called six, just a terrific package of what he can do and he can generate a lot of weaknesses from hitters up the middle. Hamilton slides to his left, makes a clean throw. This time. Tanner Hawk was brilliant tonight. Seven innings of one run baseball bottom of the strike zone to cold key strike one fly ball right field. This one's deep a going back looking up and it's gone a home run cold key second home run, two run shot in the eighth inning. He put a charge into that baseball there. 73 Boston Red Sox team coming in a couple of questions that we were asking about their offense and run support. Can they provide support for a guy like Tanner who only had 21 runs of support in his last nine starts combined. Mckinstry up the middle. Rafaella dives and makes the catch one for the highlight reel. Look at ST Louis Eyes just watching it all the way into the glove terrific closing ground and a really good play. But first Slayton has to deal with Riley Green to try to put this one to bed. Got a ball game over a bit of a scare for Justin Slayton in the ninth but the Red Sox close out a 73 victory to take game two of this series against Detroit.