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Kerry Carpenter hit a three-run homer and scored twice to help the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Mets 6-2 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Riley Greene gave Detroit a 3-1 lead with a two-run single in the fifth inning. The AL Central leaders had lost seven of nine, including the first two games of the series. <\/p>\n
Pete Alonso had three hits for the Mets, including an RBI double. They finished a stretch of 16 games in 16 days with a 9-7 record.<\/p>\n
New York began the day with a five-game lead over Cincinnati and San Francisco for the final National League wild card.<\/p>\n
Carpenter walked and scored in the fifth, then homered off struggling reliever Ryan Helsley to make it 6-2 in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Casey Mize (13-5) got the win, allowing one run and five hits in five innings.<\/p>\n
Detroit took a 1-0 lead in the second on an RBI single by Jake Rogers, but New York tied it in the third on Alonso’s run-scoring double.<\/p>\n
Two walks gave the Tigers runners on first and second with two outs in the fifth. Gregory Soto replaced Clay Holmes (11-7) and threw a wild pitch before allowing Greene’s two-run single.<\/p>\n
Mark Vientos hit an RBI single for the Mets in the sixth, but they missed a chance at a big inning. With two runners aboard earlier in the frame, center fielder Javier B\u00e1ez made a leaping catch to take away an extra-base hit from Brandon Nimmo.<\/p>\n
With the bases loaded in the sixth, Tigers reliever Tommy Kahnle preserved a 3-2 lead when he got Starling Marte to ground into an inning-ending double play. <\/p>\n
Juan Soto singled and walked for the Mets. He has reached base safely in 30 of his last 31 games.<\/p>\n
Both teams are off Thursday. Prized prospect Jonah Tong (1-0, 1.80 ERA) makes his second major league start Friday night for the Mets in Cincinnati against All-Star lefty Andrew Abbott (8-5, 2.65). Detroit hosts the last-place Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Detroit Live Kerry Carpenter hit a three-run homer and scored twice to help…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1885,1884,1266,1305,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-197914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-major-league-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115142649725654286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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