{"id":52888,"date":"2026-07-10T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/52888\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:00:10","slug":"valencia-homers-in-1st-career-plate-appearance-in-the-tigers-4-1-victory-over-the-as-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/52888\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia homers in 1st career plate appearance in the Tigers&#8217; 4-1 victory over the A&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Eduardo Valencia became the 10th Detroit player to homer in his first career plate appearance, Framber Valdez pitched seven innings and the Tigers beat the Athletics 4-1 on Thursday night for a series sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Valencia entered as a pinch-hitter in the seventh against Hogan Harris and sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TigresdeDetroit\/status\/2075378787810779188?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">425-foot shot<\/a> to center to cap the scoring and help the Tigers seal their third straight series victory. The 26-year-old Venezuelan catcher was called up from Triple-A Toledo on Thursday with fellow catcher Dillon Dingler recovering from a right hand contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez (5-6) had a season-high nine strikeouts, while allowing one run on three hits. Kyle Finnegan worked the eighth, and Kenley Jansen the ninth for his 11th save.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit has won five in a row and is 21-12 since June 1. The Tigers have climbed within 4 1\/2 games of first place in the AL Central.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Rogers and Zach McKinstry also homered for Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers hit his third homer of the year, and second in two games, to left in the third to make it 1-0. McKinstry had a two-run shot to left in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Perkins (2-5) allowed three runs on two hits in three inning for the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Bolte drove in the Athletics&#8217; only run in the fifth on a groundout. The Athletics&#8217; Zack Gelof left the game in the third after injuring his knee crashing into the outfield wall.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers RHP Jack Flaherty (2-8. 4.60 ERA) was set to start Friday night at home against Philadelphia and RHP Aaron Nola (3-6, 5.87). The Athletics had not announced a starter for their game Friday night in Chicago opposite White Sox RHP Sean Burke (5-4, 3.56).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Eduardo Valencia became the 10th Detroit player to homer in his first career plate appearance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22675,22668,22669,22670,22674,22682,22673,22681,22672,22678,22679,22680,1561,1562,1558,1559,21615,22683,22671,95,22677,22676],"class_list":["post-52888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-aaron-nola","tag-athletics-tigers-score","tag-detroit","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-eduardo-valencia","tag-framber-valdez","tag-henry-bolte","tag-hogan-harris","tag-jack-perkins","tag-jake-rogers","tag-kenley-jansen","tag-kyle-finnegan","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40792-ap-michigan-sports-only","tag-sean-burke","tag-valencia","tag-zach-mckinstry","tag-zack-gelof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}