{"id":52949,"date":"2026-07-10T05:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/52949\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:24:21","slug":"eduardo-valencia-homers-in-tigers-4-1-victory-over-the-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/52949\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Valencia homers in Tigers&#8217; 4-1 victory over the Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>The 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\" rel=\"noopener 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 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<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eduardo Valencia became the 10th Detroit player to homer in his first career plate appearance, Framber Valdez pitched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3132,22669,22734,14237,396,95],"class_list":["post-52949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-athletics","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-sports","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52949","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=52949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}