{"id":62386,"date":"2026-07-29T05:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/62386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:07:08","slug":"eduardo-valencia-homers-twice-tigers-score-in-every-inning-vs-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/62386\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Valencia homers twice, Tigers score in every inning vs. Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even Monday\u2019s runaway squirrel<\/a> couldn\u2019t get much of a laugh out of them. They needed to take out some frustration. They needed to have a little fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say stick around, you\u2019ll see something you\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d manager A.J. Hinch said after a 14-0 win over the Orioles<\/a> at Comerica Park. \u201cMan, that was quite a night. I mean, we were relentless.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tigers became the second team since 1900 to score in every inning they batted and not allow a run in that game, joining the Pirates (Sept. 6, 1935 vs. the Brooklyn Dodgers), per Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n

As Baltimore catcher turned pitcher Chadwick Tromp\u2019s curveball floated in at 35 mph, about the speed of traffic on nearby Woodward Avenue, Eduardo Valencia waited patiently. Ranked by MLB Pipeline as the Tigers’ No. 11 prospect<\/a> and a veteran of well over 400 Minor League games before making his big league debut on July 9, Valencia has seen plenty of position players pitching at various levels. He\u2019s not going to worry about timing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of troubles in the Minor Leagues against position players,\u201d Valencia said.<\/p>\n

The pitch was well over Valencia\u2019s head when he began his front leg lift. It was right around helmet level when his front foot landed, and just below shoulder level when he unleashed his swing.<\/p>\n

Valencia crushed it down the line. The 96.8 mph exit velocity was all swing. The 35-degree launch angle looked like something out of a driving range. Heads turned in unison in the Tigers dugout as the ball cleared the fence in the left-field corner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s my first extra-base hit against a position player,\u201d Valencia said. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy, but at the end of the day, that counts.\u201d<\/p>\n

It all counts. And with Valencia\u2019s second home run of the night, the Tigers had scored in every inning, building a two-touchdown lead and turning the tables on an Orioles club that slugged early and never let up<\/a> against Keider Montero and Detroit\u2019s bullpen the previous night.<\/p>\n

The only other time the Tigers scored in every inning of a nine-inning game, according to Elias Sports Bureau, was Aug. 2, 2014, two days after Detroit shocked baseball by pulling off a Trade Deadline deal<\/a> for David Price. That team was going for it, trying to win a fourth straight American League Central title, and the Tigers battered the Rockies\u2019 pitching staff for 11 runs.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s Tigers were in a nearly opposite position, trying to convince management that they\u2019re a contender with Monday\u2019s Trade Deadline looming at 6 p.m. ET. The resulting win reinforced Hinch\u2019s mantra that they\u2019re a good team with a bad record.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe faced three [O\u2019s batters] over the minimum, but offensively, we just did something positive every inning,\u201d Hinch said. \u201cWe paired our hits together. We hit the ball out of the ballpark. We ran the bases incredibly well. Just a really fun, fun win to collectively take a deep breath.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tigers\u2019 plus-39 run differential for the season is the same as the Rays, owners of the AL\u2019s best record at 62-44. Only the Yankees (+89), red-hot Red Sox (+48) and division-leading White Sox (+41) have a better run differential than Detroit among AL clubs.<\/p>\n

In the Pythagorean AL standings, the Tigers would be a Wild Card team in the thick of a division race. In this universe, they\u2019re still six games under .500, but 3 1\/2 games out of a Wild Card spot<\/a> with five teams to jump. One of those teams is the Orioles squad they just beat up.<\/p>\n

“Their offense kept pouring it on us,\u201d O\u2019s slugger Pete Alonso said. \u201cIt was one of those games where it\u2019s like, we just straight up lost. They straight up beat us. That\u2019s really it. There\u2019s no, \u2018Hey, what if we had done this, what if we had done that?\u2019 They straight up beat us. That\u2019s as simple as that. They out-executed us and outperformed us. Simple as that. It was just one of those where it\u2019s the nature of the beast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tigers have been there. They used two position players to pitch the final two innings of last Tuesday\u2019s 11-2 loss to the Cubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Valencia and Kevin McGonigle both went 4-for-5; McGonigle added a walk and scored four times. Javier B\u00e1ez celebrated his return from the injured list by going 3-for-5 with a double. Gleyber Torres hit a two-run homer and a two-run double in a five-RBI night. Troy Melton tossed seven scoreless innings with five strikeouts to lower his ERA to 1.75 — third-lowest among Major League starters since his return from the IL on May 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even Monday\u2019s runaway squirrel couldn\u2019t get much of a laugh out of them. They needed to take out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[542,14237,14236,95],"class_list":["post-62386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62386","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=62386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}